Arsenal lose Mikel Arteta favourite to Premier League rival Brentford

Arsenal person mislaid their U21s manager Mehmet Ali to Brentford up of the caller Premier League play opening adjacent month.

Ali arrived astatine the Emirates Stadium successful 2022 aft a two-year spell with Reading's younker team.

After a little stint arsenic adjunct manager to the U23s, the Turkish manager became manager of the younker team.

During that clip with the young Gunners, Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri worked with him.

Last season, his broadside mislaid successful the quarter-finals of the Premier League 2 to Manchester City aft an agonising extra-time defeat.

Now, Ali is moving connected for a caller situation successful elder shot with the Bees appointing him to beryllium portion of Keith Andrews' backroom staff.

The Irishman was appointed the caller caput manager astatine the Gtech Community Stadium past week pursuing the departure of Thomas Frank to Tottenham Hotspur.

Andrews was antecedently the acceptable portion manager astatine Brentford and perchance has a hard occupation connected his hands to dependable the vessel astatine the club.

Arteta has antecedently spoken favourably astir Ali for his enactment successful processing the youthful players astatine Arsenal.

Last year, the Spaniard singled retired Ali for praise aft Nwaneri's engagement successful the first-team. "Huge development," Arteta said erstwhile asked astir the forward.

"I deliberation large recognition to everybody moving successful the academy, the coaches starting with Jack (Wilshere), Mehmet (Ali), each the coaches astir him, Per (Mertesacker), that person prepared the subordinate to beryllium successful the close presumption close present to radiance and beryllium prepared for the antithetic context, and evidently the demands that helium is going to beryllium facing close now.

"He’s been doing truly well, physically precise mature, personally precise mature, his crippled knowing has improved a lot. "And past fto him do. He has an tremendous quality, a batch of endowment and helium needs the abstraction to shine."

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