Per Mertesacker believes that the club’s succession planning helped massively after finalising the appointments of Mehmet Ali and Jack Wilshere as Head Coaches of the under-21s and under-18s respectively. Our Academy Manager, alongside Head of Academy Coaching Luke Hobbs, has had a busy summer following the departures of Dan Micciche and Kevin Betsy, but felt that the best candidates to replace the duo came internally having previously spied Ali’s and Wilshere’s potential to step up. “We had some form of succession planning going on once we appointed Mehmet in January,” Mertesacker said. “Jack doing something with the academy really helped this process as well. These are club...
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