Edu has resigned from his function as Arsenal’s sporting director.
The Brazilian rejoined the Gunners as technical director in summer time 2019 earlier than being promoted to sporting director in November 2022.
Edu, 46, performed for Arsenal between 2001 and 2005 and gained two league titles, with one coming as a part of the ‘Invincibles’ workforce of 2003-04.
“This was an extremely exhausting resolution to make,” Edu stated on Monday.
“Now it’s time to pursue a distinct problem. Arsenal will at all times stay in my coronary heart. I want the membership and its supporters solely good issues and all the perfect.”
The previous midfielder was closely concerned in bringing supervisor Mikel Arteta to the membership, with Arsenal profitable the FA Cup on the finish of Arteta’s first season in cost.
Whereas main silverware has eluded them since, working alongside the Spaniard, Edu has been extensively credited with serving to to remodel the membership again into real title challengers.
Edu added: “Arsenal has given me the chance to work with so many wonderful individuals and the possibility to be part of one thing so particular within the membership’s historical past.
“I’ve beloved working with so many nice colleagues throughout our males’s, ladies’s and academy groups, particularly Mikel, who has change into an important pal.”
Arsenal have ended the 2 earlier campaigns as Premier League runners-up behind champions Manchester Metropolis.
Captain Martin Odegaard, Ben White, Gabriel, Gabriel Jesus and Declan Rice have all arrived and change into key gamers throughout Edu’s tenure, though the recruitment of gamers reminiscent of David Luiz and Willian had much less of an impression.
