Arsenal technical director Edu has spoken about his reasons for condensing the club’s scouting network.
The Gunners made 55 redundancies after the COVID-19 pandemic, with many of those lost jobs coming within the scouting department.
Edu believes having a smaller, tight knit group of scouts will be a better situation as the club hopes to find the best young talent in England, Europe and around the world.
“It is clear for me,” said Edu. “I want to work with less people.
“I want to work with StatDNA a lot more, which we have internally here at the club and is very important. The people I want to work with, I want them to be very close to me. I want to create a group of people working together.
“I don’t want individual people working in one area or for one country. I want a group working together. Less people with much more responsibilities.
“That is my vision and for me in this process the most important thing is that everyone is very clear on the responsibilities which everyone has to make the right decision.”
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