Sometimes, the grass is greenest in your own back garden. That may be a little cliched but it is the reality of Arsenal’s managerial hunt. The club have been at pains to stress how thorough a process they have gone through in their search for a successor to Jonas Eidevall before settling on his assistant Renée Slegers.
There is little need to be anxious about it being suggested that Arsenal may have been lax in their search because, for anyone who has had the opportunity to sit in a press conference with Slegers during her spell as interim manager, even for the shortest amount of time, the sense that the club have a class act on their hands is evident.
