Arsenal have confirmed that head coach Renée Slegers has signed a brand new contract extension, securing her long-term future on the membership following final season’s Champions League success.
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Talking at Emirates Stadium shortly after signing the deal, Renée Slegers stated the extension mirrored her perception within the membership and its route, and her need to proceed constructing on what has already been achieved.
“There are such a lot of issues to this for me. After all, I’m very proud to signify Arsenal in any position,” Slegers .
“I feel it means one thing as a result of we can construct one thing. I strongly imagine within the membership and what the membership has been doing for a very long time earlier than me and the place we at the moment are, the place the staff is at and all the probabilities that we’ve from a services and assets perspective.
“Now we have all the things. Now we have the followers. I actually look ahead to it. It means a lot to me and I actually look ahead to extra.”
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The brand new deal comes near a 12 months after Slegers formally took cost as head coach, a interval that included Arsenal’s Champions League triumph in Lisbon. Relatively than focus solely on that second, she positioned it throughout the wider context of her lengthy affiliation with the membership.
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“I need to mirror upon my complete time at Arsenal as a result of, like I simply stated, I’ve been representing Arsenal for an extended time in several roles and I’m very pleased with that,” she stated.
“I feel the larger image of what the membership has been constructing for a very long time and the small half that I’ve been part of thus far, it’s been nice to be part of as a result of I feel I share so many values with the membership.”
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Requested concerning the Champions League ultimate itself, Slegers stated the importance of that achievement continues to register step by step.
“I feel it is available in items, the sinking in of what we did,” she stated. “We all know what it means to the membership and to the followers. I feel our complete Champions League journey final season has been very spectacular. What the staff has proven, the standard of soccer that we are able to play, the best way we are able to win video games and in addition the character that we’ve proven as a staff.”
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Slegers additionally highlighted the collective tradition throughout the squad and training employees as a key cause for Arsenal’s success.
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“The standard that we possess within the staff, the totally different particular person strengths and when that comes collectively, we’re such staff,” she stated. “Along with the employees, the backroom employees, there’s a lot work ethic, a lot willingness to be taught, to turn out to be higher. We work with actually excessive belief ranges.”
Whereas pleased with final season’s achievements, Slegers was clear that the membership’s ambitions stay unchanged.
“Our ambition doesn’t cease while you win one Champions League,” she stated. “The purpose is after all to have the ability to obtain the Arsenal method and do this persistently, and that method must result in trophies as a result of we’re Arsenal.”
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Director of Ladies’s Soccer, Clare Wheatley, stated concerning the new deal, “We’re delighted Renée has signed a brand new long-term contract with us. Since taking on, first on an interim foundation after which as our everlasting head coach, Renée has proved to be an elite coach with the capabilities to guide us as we proceed to problem to win main trophies. Along with our supporters, we look ahead to persevering with our profitable journey with Renée within the years to come back.”
Chief Govt Officer, Richard Garlick, added, “Renée has already achieved nice issues as our head coach, main us to our second Champions League title in her first season in cost. Past this, Renée has embraced the values and ambitions of Arsenal, driving requirements and progress as we intention to compete persistently on the prime of the ladies’s recreation.
“We now look forward to an thrilling second half of the season, with 5 trophies to play for. Our enormous congratulations to Renée and her household.”