Arsenal started interviewing prospective new managers five days after Arsene Wenger announced he was stepping down. The Gunners appointed Unai Emery on a three-year deal as Wenger's successor, little over one month after the Frenchman revealed that he would be leaving. Arsenal whittled down the candidates from a field of eight to just three, before Ivan Gazidis, Sven Mislintat and Raul Sanllehi conducted a vote between themselves to decide who would get the job. “We went through a pretty wide-ranging discussion, challenging each other on as much as we could on preconceptions and assumptions we might have had going into the process,' said chief executive Gazidis. “By the way, all the...
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