It was a rivalry that took maintain of the Girls’s Tremendous League and dominated clashes between Arsenal and Chelsea – and now Jonas with Emma Hayes.
Eidevall, following a poor begin to the season, has been introduced as the brand new supervisor of Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League membership San Diego Wave.
It means the Swedish coach might be pressured to work and collaborate with Hayes, the supervisor of the US nationwide staff.
However in response to Eidevall the pair haven’t had a working relationship since Hayes’ feedback after final season’s League Cup remaining, which Arsenal received in extra-time.
The after the ultimate whistle and claimed on the touchline.
Emma Hayes and Jonas Eidevall had some push and shove after full time within the Girls’s League Cup remaining 🥊
That is the Arsenal boss’ clarification of what occurred.
Talking for the primary time since leaving Arsenal and taking on his new position, Eidevall instructed Swedish newspaper Sportbladet that he and Hayes haven’t spoken since that altercation.
“I used to be very upset by that, very upset,” Eidevall stated. “I’m additionally very upset that she hasn’t been in a position to ship a message or make a name to say that it went flawed.
“I received’t be the one to increase a hand both, as a result of I don’t suppose I’ve carried out something flawed or loopy within the scenario.
“The way in which I skilled it, it was only a approach to attempt to hurt me and my particular person via the media. I took that fairly badly and didn’t suppose it turned out nicely in any respect.”
With San Diego having Naomi Girma and different gamers eligible for the US of their ranks, it will be assumed Hayes and Eidevall must talk over their choice for the nationwide staff.
However Eidevall claimed Hayes didn’t attain out when he had US defender Emily Fox at Arsenal and that the one communication he had was along with her assistant coaches. This, he stated, was in distinction to the way in which England supervisor Sarina Wiegman and different nationwide staff coaches labored.
Eidevall’s departure from Arsenal, which he says was his resolution, got here amid mounting stress from the membership’s supporters. His remaining sport in cost was a 2-1 defeat by Chelsea, after which “Jonas Out” graffiti appeared close to the Emirates Stadium.
In addition to poor outcomes at first of the season, there was a unfavourable response from followers to the membership’s resolution to let Vivianne Miedema be a part of WSL rivals Manchester Metropolis on a free switch. Eidevall pinpoints that because the second supporters began to activate him, although there was additionally a sense he had misplaced the dressing room.
Eidevall additionally took purpose at Arsenal for not having a sporting director, which he stated made the job a “lonely place.”
Clare Wheatley is Arsenal’s director of ladies’s soccer, a job which incorporates overseeing transfers, contracts and the present seek for a brand new supervisor.
Renée Slegers has been interim supervisor since Eidevall’s departure and appears set to proceed for the foreseeable future.