Slegers will not be an unfamiliar face round Arsenal, each internally and externally.
In September 2023, she joined Arsenal as Eidevall’s assistant coach and served within the function for 13 months earlier than making the step up.
After Eidevall departed three months in the past, Slegers reworked the Gunners from a aspect who had been sixth within the WSL after 4 video games.
Since she took cost on an interim foundation, no staff has picked up extra WSL factors than the Gunners. Solely league leaders and defending champions Chelsea have managed to emulate that type.
However regardless of a change in job and the staff’s fortunes, Williamson has praised Slegers’ modest persona.
“It is onerous for any person to remain the identical particular person in the way in which that they act,” added the defender. “Renee is an efficient particular person and a robust lady, so I really feel like she holds numerous authority in what she says anyway.
“The place that she’s [in] attending to know a gaggle of gamers as an assistant, you’ve gotten that much less pressurised relationship by way of choice making, then to be put in that function I feel places you in higher stead to make these selections required by a head coach as a result of you recognize all people and you recognize the gamers.
“I have not seen her change up to now, which is nice clearly as a result of it says lots about her as an individual.”
Slegers instructed the gamers about her new deal shortly earlier than it was made public.
However reasonably than specializing in her personal large information, she was fast to show the eye to Swedish defender Amanda Ilestedt who was celebrating her thirty second birthday.
“All of us discovered right now,” mentioned Williamson, 27. “She’s a really humble particular person and modest particular person, Renee.
“She was exceptionally uncomfortable and rapidly shifted on to the very fact it was Amanda’s birthday and we sang comfortable birthday and that completed the dialog.”
