De Maesschalck to be named Gunners' new academy director

[Getty Images] Arsenal are set to appoint Strasbourg technical director Pascal De Maesschalck as the club's new academy head. A deal for the Belgian administrator to become the club's new academy director has been agreed and his appointment is expected to be confirmed in due course. The experienced De Maesschalck has previously worked at Monaco and Club Brugge before joining Strasbourg in 2024. He will replace Per Mertesacker, who left the club at the end of last season, as Arsenal's academy director. The likes of Bukayo Saka, Emile Smith Rowe, Ethan Nwaneri, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Max Dowman and Marli Salmon have all emerged through Arsenal's academy to feature for the first team during Mertesacker's tenure as manager of Arsenal's academy.
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