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Changes to the Backroom and the Boardroom

Clrnc

Lehmann would be a brilliant appointment. He will give the players a kick up their arse.

And he is very good at his judgement of players anyway.

Ricky1985

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/lehmann-in-line-for-arsenal-role-dz3kzxtnq

The Times are now reporting it. Can't read the whole article because of the paywall but it does say he is being offered a role in the first team but not specifically as a goalkeeping coach. Either way, his presence around the training ground and in the changing room is something I'm very much in favour of.

Ricky1985

Edit - Telegraph have it too, with full details:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/07/03/arsenal-close-appointing-jens-lehmann-first-team-coach-work1/

Arsenal are finalising the highest-profile addition to their backroom team so far this summer with the appointment of their ‘Invincible’ goalkeeper Jens Lehmann as a first-team coach.

Significantly, Lehmann will be tasked with working directly alongside manager Arsene Wenger, assistant manager Steve Bould and first-team coach Boro Primorac with the club’s senior players.

Gerry Peyton will remain goalkeeping coach - a position he has had since Lehmann joined as a player in 2003 - with Lehmann himself due to take up a role across the entire squad.
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This is his first formal coaching position, with Wenger and chief executive Ivan Gazidis confident that just his presence will positively influence the squad and help to reinforce a stronger, winning mentality.

Absolutely fantastic. There are few former players I'd have wanted ahead of him in a role like this. He's a out and out winner and very demanding and also very opinionated. Chuffed.

flobaba

Bet he either quits very soon or becomes another silent zombie under the Wenger regime.

JazzG

Would be glad to see Jens joined. Even though he sometimes came across as a bit of a nut job when he played, when you hear him speak he clearly knows what he is talking about.

Coombs wrote:
Anzac wrote:
http://le-grove.co.uk/2017/06/20/wenger-backroom-signings-are-a-massive-con-and-an-egregious-abuse-of-power/

smoke and mirrors
Some unbelievably demented, tin-foil hat logic from Le Grove, as usual. Don't even know how you can genuinely perform the mental gymnastics it takes to get worked about about this! Egregious abuse of power? Arsenal isn't a bloody nation-state!

He should have gone, but he's stayed. That's all. There is no Arsenal Fan's Bill of Rights.

LeGrove just can't take it that despite all his blogs and tweets the Arsenal hierarchy still gave Wenger a new contract 😆

He talks absolute shit as well, pretty sure he talked hoping we'd do bad to force Wenger out. He dislikes Wenger more than he supports Arsenal, deluded.

lorddulaarsenal

Announce Burgess!

goon

I <3 Jens.

People will look at this as embarrassing, but I reckon it was the single greatest moment of the Wenger reign.

speedy

goon wrote:
I <3 Jens.

People will look at this as embarrassing, but I reckon it was the single greatest moment of the Wenger reign.

Keown has mention on TV how Jens was the strictest in training. If anyone wasn't giving 100% he was on their case straight away no matter who it was. Apparently he was on hlebs case all the time.

y va marquer

He used to scare Almunia 😆

‘To have someone here who hates me is just amazing. I know he hates me.’

They eventually made up though

In his last season at Arsenal there was a team dinner for us all to say goodbye. Jens and me didn’t speak — and I mean never — but he came to me with his wife and showed me a totally different face. I thought, ‘oh my God, who is this? This is not Jens!’ We talked about life, football, Spain, Germany, everything.

Gazza M

interesting appointment. jens is a known feather-ruffler. doesn't seem like the type to stand for being neutered by wenger

y va marquer

More like a feather plucker if this is anything to go by:

They talk about Sanchez being a big player — but if you are sulking, you can’t be a big player.

“You must be a big player mentally — not just be good at dribbling.

“There’s always a question with Ozil — how much can he contribute when it gets tough?

“It’s not Mustafi’s fault someone has paid £35m for him. If someone buys me for £35m, the next day I’m not a better player.

“He is giving everything. But sometimes the team concede five, so he has to ask himself if it’s good enough?”

He said: “All these guys when they came to Arsenal were happy to join. They should not forget that.

“They can’t just turn around and say, ‘The manager is c**p — it’s his responsibility’.

“That’s not possible if you have character. They’re good players, they have character — but they need to show it!

“I haven’t seen Arsene criticise them. It’s payback.

Burnwinter

ZzZzZzzzzZzz

Can't even understand the logic behind this. Is it supposed to be that Wenger needs to appoint his own "bad cop"?

Daz

Yeah and what would a keeper know about coaching actual footballers anyway?

goon

Ricky1985

🙂

Some of you might view Lehmann being around the players on the training ground and in the changing room before, during and after a game as unimportant, but I think it's because you'll see the bad in anything as long as Wenger is the guy calling the shots.

He's exactly the type of man we need more of at the club.

Irishgunner

Delighted to have Jens back at the club!

JazzG

As much as people have disapproved about Wenger staying on this summer there has definitely been a significant change towards a fair few things. LB sorted and striker announcement imminent. Working on a deal for Lemar and if that doesn't work a backup option in place in Mahrez. Going all out to sign Mbappe even though it doesn't look like we will get that done. From the sounds of things close to agreeing a deal with Ozil and Alexis looks like he will stay. Off the field as well new man to look at contracts, new fitness coach in and Jens as a new coach.

In Arsenal terms this is all unheard of, lets hope we keep our finger on the pulse as far as new players go and get in hopefully another couple players.

Gurgen

flobaba wrote:
Bet he either quits very soon or becomes another silent zombie under the Wenger regime.

Can't see the latter happening, he's too mental to become a zombie.

Tactics

Love mad Jens!

This is my favourite Lehmann moment (Wigan or Kirkland in particular had been wasting time from literally minute 1! It was a frustrating match but we finally took the lead late in the game and Lehmann decided to give them a taste of their own medicine)

😆 😆 😆

goon

I love how it completely flies over the heads of the commentators who take it at face value.

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