Edu is leaving

JazzG

Edu is leaving! Wonder what the reason is, he’s played a massive part of turning this club around so disappointing he is leaving. Let’s hope we find a good replacement who can work well with Arteta.

banduan

Wasn't that long ago we were wondering what the bloke actually did.

This can't be a good thing. I'm not sure there's that many good candidates out there.

lorddulaarsenal

All the best Ed - cheers for the work you did

Sicario2 - Tier 1

He’s a great guy but ultimately we haven’t won anything in 4 years and last summer was a joke.

Need fresh ideas and someone to challenge Arteta. Wonder who we will go for.

Qwiss

This is an opportunity. Edus done alright but it's a chance to get someone in who can do better. Maybe someone with new avenues to players we haven't considered before.

Burnwinter

It's a shame as our recruitment has been pretty good for many seasons. Despite all the criticisms we've had on various points and players, things were worse before.

I guess we'll never see now whether Edu would've had the ability to turn over this squad he built while being efficient with money.

Curious if any more information will come out about this, whether there was conflict, KSE involvement, and so on.

RocktheCasbah

Interesting timing (and decision from him), with Vini leaving in the summer and us still to fulfill our trophy potential.

Gazza M

hopefully this is not a sign of some kind of inner fracturing. hard to imagine he's found a bigger/better opportunity somewhere else

Gazza M

Sources have told Sky Sports News that the Brazilian has been under consideration for a role with Evangelos Marinakis’s group of clubs.

who is that?

lorddulaarsenal

Gazza M Nottingham Forest

Qwiss

Gazza M Forrest and Olympiakos

lorddulaarsenal

The moment they climb above us in the table he jumps ship

Don Pacifico

We've done well since Edu has cemented his role. I've always been inclined to think it's more correlation than causation though. Recruitment has been good albeit, I'm yet to see how much he's contributed to that beyond being the middle man between our recruitment department and Arteta. We've also sold most our players for a pittance and been continuously fleeced by those we look to buy from. There have been signs of improvement in the last 6 months but I'm very open to there being a replacement and one that challenges Arteta more (which is a comment on Edu, not on Arteta).

Claudius

Sad to see him go. But I think a lot of fans will be excited by this given the complaints about our summer window.

HomeSteak

Good. Get someone that has balls to tell Arteta NO from time to time.

QuincyAbeyie

Replacing Edu isn't necessarily an issue, but unless he has a better job lined up you have to wonder why.

HomeSteak

QuincyAbeyie He will have a bigger role at Nottingham, at the group that own Nottingham, so he will be the biggest boss at 3 clubs, they also have Rio Ave in Portugal and some team in Greece.
Again, we can and should do better, I'm not worried.

yeah and just a little thing I remembered, Txiki Begiristain is leaving City in the summer, right?

JazzG

QuincyAbeyie Replacing Edu isn't necessarily an issue, but unless he has a better job lined up you have to wonder why.

SimplyThePest

HomeSteak are you suggesting we pursue Cheeky Burgerstain (sorry, just had to type that out... 😃)?

Don Pacifico

JazzG yeah, this doesn't surprise. From what I can tell, Edu's best talent is his gift for self-promotion. He's all about getting that pay rise and promotion, less concerned with the job at hand. I'm being flippant but I do think there is some truth to that...

HomeSteak

SimplyThePest I'm just saying that one of the best out there... is free. Yeah, he probably is a piece of shit, but kinda have to be in todays football.