Eidevall - Why Arsenal is the right project for me

It's already shaping up to be a busy and exciting summer for Jonas Eidevall.

The Swede has spent the past few months going through the hiring process to become our new head coach, while also leading Champions League side Rosengard to the top of their domestic league.

 

And now that he has secured his position in north London, he is ready to get to work on shaping our team in his image.

 

"I’ve been working as a head coach for my team here in Sweden, Rosengard, but then I have been meeting all the decision makers at Arsenal Women," he revealed.

 

"I’ve been speaking to Clare Wheatley about the team and the vision and where we want to be, but I’ve also had good and interesting discussions with Edu the technical director at the club, Richard Garlick the director of football operations, and also with Vinai the CEO.

 

"I feel like it’s not only a women’s department, it’s a whole club going behind this vision and that’s really excited me and strengthened my belief that this will be the right club and project for me.

 

"It’s a pretty short pre-season for a number of reasons," Eidevall added. "But we’re going to play the first rounds of the Women’s Champions League qualifiers and that’s already in mid-August and after that there is a really, really congested schedule where we’re going to play in many different competitions.

 

"For us, we need to make sure that we have players that can handle that playing load and what that schedule will mean to us, and we will have some players here now who are at our disposal already right from the beginning, and of course we will get them into our playing style and the physical demands that I will put into them.

 

'We’re not going to do everything here in just two or three weeks' time, but we need to do enough and we need to be competitive right from the start, but then we need to grow from there on and we need to grow all the way during the season."

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