Arsenal tie Arteta's key backroom staff to new deals

The backroom employees of Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta have signed new contracts.

During his tenure at the club, Arteta has established a core coaching staff that consists of set-piece expert Nicolas Jover, goalkeeping coach Inaki Cana, first-team coach Miguel Molina, and assistants Albert Stuivenberg and Carlos Cuesta.

In September of last year, the manager of Arsenal agreed to a new deal that would keep him at Emirates Stadium until 2027.

However, the contracts of Arteta’s backroom employees were set to expire at the end of this season, and they did not sign new agreements at the same time.

However, it is now believed that all five of them have signed new contracts, bringing them up to speed with Arteta’s contract duration.

“We all tried to do it at the same time,” said Arteta. “It is difficult because four or five people committing at the same time is not easy to do.

After Arteta was hired in December 2019, Stuivenberg joined Arsenal and has since grown to be a reliable ally.

He agreed to new terms, and the deal has now been inked, according to a December report from The Athletic. It is believed that Cana, Cuesta, Jover, and Molina followed suit at about the same time.

When Arteta was hired, Cana also moved from Brentford, where he was a goalie coach, to Arsenal.

Following Arteta’s first season as head coach, Cuesta and Molina joined the backroom crew in the summer of 2020.

Jover, who had previously worked at Manchester City, was the final member of the five to arrive at Arsenal in the summer of 2021.

In terms of set pieces, he has made Arsenal one of the top teams in the world.

Fans now consider Jover to be a cult hero, and a mural of him can be found close to Emirates Stadium.

“I had to do a lot of digging,” said Arteta, when asked how he discovered Jover. “But in relation to that and the individual development, it is an area that was not explored enough in my opinion.

“It was one of the evolutions the game was going to have and (we) try to always be ahead to maximise those opportunities.”