Vinai Venkatesham, executive director of Arsenal, wanted to settle the problems surrounding the club after the dismissal of Raúl Sanllehí (and 55 others) and the club's relations with agent Kia Joorabchian, who has placed several players in the club 'gunner ' in the last times.
Some say that the London team was too influenced by the Iranian representative (very close to Sanllehí) after the renewals of David Luiz and Cedric Soares, the signing of Willian and flirting with the possibility of bringing Philippe Coutinho to the ‘gunner’ team.
“I'm glad you asked the question. I see, read and absorb much of what is said about how we work with agents, ”Venkatesham began. We do not select players based on the identity of their agent. We select players based on the position that we need to strengthen and the characteristics that we look for in a player and if the player is out there who meets those characteristics. Who the agent is comes to light at the end, once we have decided who the player is. We do not hire players based on the identity of the agent. That would be a crazy strategy, ”he added.