SACKED! Arsenal dump Bould after 30 years service with the club

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SACKED! Arsenal dump Bould after 30 years service with the club

Arsenal have sacked U23 coach Steve Bould - after 30 years with the club.

The 58-year-old has been in the youth team role for the past two seasons having previously been an integral part of Arsene Wenger's backroom team.

Bould spent 11 years with Arsenal as a player from 1988-99 before returning to the club as a coach in 2001.

After more than a decade working with the academy, Bould was promoter to be Wenger's No.2 after the retirement of assistant manager Pat Rice.

He held that role up to and beyond the end of Wenger's reign in 2018, but was reassigned to the academy just a year later in a job swap with Freddie Ljungberg.

The Athletic reports academy director Per Mertesacker will now be tasked with finding a replacement for Bould, who becomes the latest victim to the huge restructuring going on at the club.