‘We’re looking for top-quality players’, Arsenal CEO Ivan Gazidis told fans at an event on Thursday. ‘We’ve got three times as many scouts as we had four years ago. I believe that to be a world-class football club you’ve got to be world class off the pitch’.
After a season marred by anti-Wenger protests, Gazidis has begged fans to ‘come together’, as well as defending his decision to hand the French manager a contract extension: ‘It wasn’t a sentimental decision, it was a mutual one… I care about the club and those values. I want the club to be successful’, he said.
The Arsenal chief showed himself to be quite optimistic looking at the future, as he underlined the importance of backing the team. ‘There has been disagreement. There has been a lack of unity and dissatisfaction. The board knows that. I beg you, please come together and give our manager and this team support. I want the atmosphere to be united and it has been a struggle because we haven’t had that’, he concluded.
SOURCE: BESOCCER
