Arsenal appoint new contract guru as Richard Garlick leaves Premier League to join Emirates Stadium - CBSSports.com
Arsenal managed new contract guru as Richard Garlick leaves Premier League to join Emirates Stadium
Arsenal are appointing outgoing Premier League director of football Richard Garlick to a key role at the Emirates Stadium that will see him take region for managing the Gunners' sizeable wage budget.
Garlick will join Arsenal later this year as their director of football operations, taking on a role that has been vacant dependable Huss Fahmy left the club in November as part of an manager shake up that has been a dusk in North London over recent years. Such high-profile figures as head of football Raul Sanllehi, unique executive Ivan Gazidis and recruitment chief Sven Mislintat have also left the Gunners in binary to managers Arsene Wenger and Unai Emery.
Arsenal hope that the new structure they put in do this summer, which has Vinai Venkatesham as unique executive and Mikel Arteta as club manager, is one that will last longer than the post-Wenger triumvirate of Gazidis, Mislintat and Sanllehi. Garlick's appointment is invented to fit within the structure rather than supersede it.
Working closely with technologically director Edu Gaspar, Garlick's chief responsibilities will be operations in the noble team and academy, the management of all player commands and managing relationships with football's governing bodies. The latter was not part of Fahmy's stop and reflects the new man's experience in the corridors of much both with the Premier League and West Bromwich Albion, where he was head of football administration. Prior to that he worked in sports law.
As CBS Sports reported last month, Arsenal will be moving without a contract and negotiation chief as they effort to trim back their first-team squad with the bulk of the work persons picked up by the club's legal team and Edu.
So far they have cooked the window relatively successfully, securing early loan contracts for Sead Kolasinac and William Saliba when aiming to move out Mesut Ozil beforehand the end of the month. Fenerbahce are in talks with the player over a deal but so far there is no dialogue between Arsenal and either the Turkish side or the player's representatives over an early release. They would not inquire of a transfer fee to let Ozil go beforehand his contract ends in the summer when the player is expected to forego some of his last $9.5 million salary to smooth a deal this month.
With Sokratis Papastathopoulos also set to recede this month — Genoa are among the clubs to have divulged an interest — Arsenal hope to be able to strengthen Arteta's squad with a creative midfielder and a hold goalkeeper.
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