Arsenal FC loses its sporting director, who will head to the holding company Marinakis Group

Arsenal FC loses its sporting director, who will head to the holding company Marinakis Group

<a href="https://www.archysport.com/2022/01/first-candidate-for-the-puskas-2022-award-richarlison-scored-a-spectacular-goal-with-everton-in-the-premier-league/" title="First candidate for the Puskás 2022 award?: Richarlison scored a spectacular goal with Everton in the Premier League“>Arsenal FC is looking for a new sporting director. The set gunner of the Premier League will say goodbye to Edu Gasparwho has served as sports director since the 2023-2024 season, as progress is made The Independent. Everything indicates that the Brazilian will head to the Marinakis Group conglomerate.

He holding owned by Evangelos Marinakis, it has other football clubs under its umbrella, such as Nottingham Forest FCalso in the Premier League, or Olympiacos FC, in the Greek Super League, as well as Rio Ave Futebol Clube, from the Portuguese Primeira Liga.

According to the aforementioned media, Edu Gaspar would have among his aspirations to become CEO of Arsenal FC and, given the refusal of the current board, he would have decided to change scene. The Brazilian is one of the architects of the good seasons that the team is having gunner since the arrival of Mikel Arteta to the bench.

Gaspar’s career in the offices began in 2010-2011when he joined Sport Club Corinthians Paulista as head of the sports area. He spent a couple of seasons with the Brazilian team, until in 2013-2014 he moved to Iran to work as an agent for footballers. In 2015-2016 he returned to his native Brazil to be coordinator of the National Team, while four years later, in 2019-2020, he made the leap to the Premier League as technical secretary of Arsenal FC.

For its part, Arsenal FC closed the financial year as of June 30, 2023 with red numbers worth £52.1 million (around sixty million euros), despite having earned more than 500 million euros.

In the last course, Arsenal FC recorded revenue of 556.2 million euros in the 2022-2023 seasoncompared to 459.2 million euros in 2021-2022. In particular, the most important item was income from television rights, which rose to 222.7 million euros, while commercial income amounted to 197.2 million euros.

Among other items, Match day revenue was €119.5 million, above one hundred million for the first time since the 2014-2015 season.and income from player management totaled 14.2 million euros.

However, Arsenal FC’s budgeted costs increased to €609.7 million in the 2022-2023 financial year, compared to €506.2 million in 2021-2022with a global increase in costs of around 20%, a percentage similar to the increase in billing compared to 2021-2022.

Arsenal FC is one of the most successful clubs in the United Kingdom and Europe. The English team was founded in London in 1886. They play their home games at the Emirates Stadium, with a capacity for 60,700 spectators, and among their showcases are thirteen Premier League champion titles, fourteen FA Cups, and two League Cups, among others.

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