Arsenal are looking forward to appointing their first-ever technical director ahead of 2019-2020 after creating the new role of recent, and according to Sportsmail, AS Roma’s Sporting Director is favourite for the job.
The 50-year-old was Sevilla’s director of football for 16 years, and he worked with current Arsenal manager Unai Emery during his time at the La Liga club.
As a result, the Arsenal hierarchy reportedly feel that the Spaniard is the perfect candidate to fill the newly created role having established himself as one of football’s most outstanding administrators.