Revealed: Arsenal interviewed eight candidates before appointing Emery
Arsenal reportedly interviewed eight candidates for the monumental task to replace Arsene Wenger as manage, including a couple of club legends.
Wenger stepped down as Arsenal boss at the end of the 2017-18 campaign after 22 years in charge – with the team losing further ground on their Premier League rivals and missing out on Champions League football for the second season running.
Unai Emery was eventually the man chosen for the Emirates job after it had initially appeared that former Arsenal player Mikel Arteta would take over.
The names, in alphabetical order, included, Massimiliano Allegri, Arteta, Thierry Henry, Julen Lopetegui, Ralf Rangnick, Jorge Sampaoli and Patrick Vieira.
It has also been reported by The Athletic that Arsenal additionally discussed Antonio Conte, Eddie Howe, Maurizio Sarri and Brendan Rodgers – but for various reasons, they were not pursued.
Ultimately, it was Arteta’s lack of managerial experience and a readily available backroom team that proved to work against him.
The pressure has intensified on Emery after Arsenal let a two-goal lead slip at the Emirates on Sunday afternoon against Crystal Palace.
GUILD OF MEDICAL DIRECTORS CALLS FOR IMMORTALISATION OF DOCTOR STELLA ADADEVOH
Guild of Medical Directors and Rights Activists have called on the Federal Government to immortalise and confer National Honours on late Dr.Stella Adadevoh.
They made the call during a commemorative thanksgiving service to honour the life and legacy of Dr.Adadevoh at the First Baptist Church in Abuja.
She is being remembered for her role in curbing a wider spread of the Ebola virus in Nigeria by placing a patient, Patrick Sawyer, in quarantine despite pressures from the Liberian government.
When threatened by Liberian officials who wanted the patient to be discharged to attend a conference, she resisted the pressure and said, “for the greater public good” she would not release him.
On 4 August 2014, it was confirmed that she had tested positive for Ebola virus disease and was being treated. She later died on the 19th of August and was survived by her husband and son, among other relatives.
She would have turned 63 years old yesterday, the 27th of October.
The President, Guild of Medical Directors, Professor Femi Babalola and Rights Activist, Peter Nkanga spoke with journalists after the church service.
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PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI TO ATTEND FUTURE INVESTMENT INITIATIVE IN RIYADH, SAUDI.
President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja today for Riyadh, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to attend the third edition of the Future Investment Initiative organised by Saudi’s Public Investment Fund.
According to a release posted on the Instagram handle of a presidential aide, Buhari Sallau, the theme of the programme is, ‘‘What’s Next for Global Business?’’
The statement revealed that the event, which holds from Tuesday, the 29th to Thursday the31stof October, will focus on three key pillars: Sustainable Future, Technology for Good and Advanced Society.
