Ivan Gazidis: Unai Emery landed Arsenal after silent ballot

Arsenal executive director Ivan Gazidis commented on Unai Emery’s appointment as the Gunners head coach.

“All the way going through the process, Raul and I and Sven spoke to each other as little as possible, because we didn't want to pollute each other's viewpoints from the discussions we had,” ESPN GP reported quoting Gazidis.

“We wanted to come to the discussion fresh when we had been through all eight of the finalist candidates. We narrowed it down to three. We spent an entire day discussing among those three. At the end of the day, three of us all wrote on a piece of paper, one, two, three, and put them into the middle of the table. And the choices were all the same. And Unai was at the top of all of our lists,” the director concluded.

A 46-year-old Unai Emery left French PSG at the end of the 2017-18 season and signed a deal with Arsenal.

A 68-year-old Arsene Wenger has been heding Arsenal since 1996. He has won a total of 17 titles and has overseen three Premier League title wins in Arsenal.

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