Arsenal Women duo Beth Mead and Jordan Nobbs back structural changes to club | Football News

Arsenal duo Beth Mead and Jordan Nobbs have given their backing to the membership’s makes an attempt to extend help for its girls’s group, and imagine the adjustments can allow them to mount a WSL title problem this season.

Experiences surfaced in April that Arsenal gamers had raised considerations over the route of the membership, with damage remedy, entry to services and workers ranges among the many main points, which had been additionally understood to be a think about supervisor Joe Montemurro’s departure for Juventus.

Nonetheless, Arsenal chief government defined in June that the membership have taken steps to handle the considerations, with funding made throughout the board.

Each the membership’s medical and training workers had been expanded, with new head coach Jonas Eidevall appointed, whereas the membership have introduced {that a} new girls’s soccer constructing is within the works at their London Colney coaching floor.

Arsenal completed 9 factors behind WSL champions Chelsea final season, however crucially pipped Manchester United to a third-place end and secured qualification for the Champions League, leaving loads for the membership to be enthusiastic about for the upcoming marketing campaign.

Ahead Mead and midfielder Nobbs are happy with what they’ve seen over the summer time and are assured the progress will assist them pose a problem to the likes of Chelsea and Manchester Metropolis within the WSL, which is stay on Sky Sports activities this season.

“I feel it is clearly a constructive for us,” Nobbs mentioned. “We’re at all times making an attempt to push as gamers to get the very best of what we are able to and the way in which the sport’s gone it is shot up professionally.

“So the truth that Arsenal are pushing that – it is what we want as a membership and it is the one manner that we’ll compete to be the very best.

“Whenever you get to this degree you want all of the added extras to beat the very best groups, be concerned in Champions League, so Arsenal are there to help us and that is all we’re asking for.”

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Mead added: “You may change into complacent and different groups can creep away from you.

“Chelsea, Man Metropolis – their high quality has sort of gone to the following degree due to the funding within the recreation from them.

“It in all probability confirmed final season and us as an Arsenal group clearly we have now the standard of participant however with the assistance we’ll get hopefully we are able to kick onto a brand new degree and compete within the likes of the WSL and Champions League.”

‘Thrilling occasions’ underneath new boss Eidevall

Eidevall, 38, joined in June from Swedish facet Rosengard after serving to the Malmo-based membership attain the quarter-finals of final season’s Ladies’s Champions League.

After initially teaching in males’s soccer, Eidevall joined Rosengard first as an assistant after which as the top coach, attaining back-to-back titles in 2013 and 2014.

He had a quick spell as Henrik Larsson’s assistant at Helsingborgs, earlier than returning to Rosengard and main them to the 2018 Swedish Cup and their first league title in 4 years in 2019.

Eidevall has but to fulfill the Arsenal squad in individual having been required to quarantine upon his arrival in London, however has been in contact along with his gamers over video calls.

Together with a brand new head coach, the membership have additionally been energetic within the switch market, with the signings of Simone Boye Sorensen from Bayern Munich and Nikita Parris from Lyon their most notable acquisitions.

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“We have clearly had Zoom calls with him as a group however individually in the meanwhile we have in all probability not had the conversations that the majority gamers would in all probability like at this level,” Mead mentioned.

“We have been engaged on his rules with the teaching workers that we have now out there in the meanwhile and it is thrilling to look ahead to.

“I feel he’ll convey that competitiveness out in us all and the likes of Simone and Nikita coming into the squad is simply exhibiting the intent that he desires to do effectively right here and he desires us as gamers to push on now.

“So it is thrilling occasions forward and hopefully we’ll see him within the subsequent few days so we are able to get going earlier than the season begins.”

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Nobbs added: “We need to be successful trophies this 12 months however I am certain he is coming in to do this for us. We have clearly strengthened our squad already – received a number of extra gamers than what we did final season.

“What we have seen of him over Zoom he has very excessive requirements and desires us to coach exhausting, win the ball again and I feel that is what we want as a group.

“Now we have the expertise however I feel if we have now the drive from him as effectively for competitors and in coaching it should solely put us in the very best place to win.”