Cuesta set to depart Arsenal for Serie A task with Parma after Chivu exit
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Carlos Cuesta is , with remaining particulars of a contract anticipated to be agreed this morning. The 29-year-old Spaniard, a long-serving member of Mikel Arteta’s teaching employees, will succeed Cristian Chivu, having agreed phrases on a two-year deal reportedly value just below £850,000 per season.
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Cuesta, who turns 30 subsequent month, is considered one of many brightest younger minds in teaching and has been with Arsenal since 2020. Fluent in six languages, he beforehand labored with Atlético Madrid and hung out in Italy with Juventus’s Beneath-17s, although this will probably be his first senior managerial function.
Sources in Italy say the choice to nominate Cuesta was pushed by Parma president Kyle Krause, who has a choice for younger, progressive coaches. His first appointment following the acquisition of the membership was Enzo Maresca, then assistant to Pep Guardiola at Manchester Metropolis. Cuesta’s lack of first-team expertise mirrors Maresca’s profile on the time, although the now Chelsea supervisor lasted simply 4 months earlier than being sacked regardless of signing a three-year deal.
Regardless of the dangers concerned, Cuesta’s choice is known to have come after detailed interviews and glowing endorsements from Parma’s chief govt Federico Cherubini and sporting director Alessandro Pettina. The membership hopes Cuesta can emulate the tactical blueprint established below Arteta, with a possession-based model constructed round younger expertise.
If confirmed, Cuesta will grow to be the youngest supervisor in Serie A because it adopted a single group format in 1929.
