EPL: It’s time for a different challenge – Edu speaks on Arsenal exit

Edu has claimed that he is leaving Arsenal, because of the need for ‘a new challenge’.

This comes as the Premier League club officially confirmed the sporting director has resigned from his role at the club.

Edu handed in his resignation on Monday and will take up a new role in Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis’s stable of clubs.

Even though Edu only officially quit on Monday, Arsenal have been aware of Marinakis’s pursuit for several weeks.

And fears have grown internally he was going to leave to pursue a different role with the promise of a huge contract.

Edu insisted it was an “incredibly hard decision” to leave and his departure will sting Arsenal as he was involved in bringing Mikel Arteta to the club as manager in 2019 and overseeing big-money deals like record £105m signing Declan Rice last year.