Plenty of names have been linked with replacing Arsene Wenger at Arsenal and Zeljko Buvac is among them; but Danny Murphy feels it’s a ‘ridiculous’ idea.
In a segment of The Debate on Sky Sports, Danny Murphy has opined on some of the choices Arsenal are reportedly ready to make with regards to replacing Arsene Wenger.
The choice in concern is that of Liverpool assistant manager Zeljko Buvac, who has come to be linked strongly to become Arsenal’s next manager. Danny Murphy believes it would be a ‘ridiculous’ idea to replace Wenger with the Bosnian, and he thinks such an appointment would not be suitable for a club like Arsenal.
“I would find it unbelievable to appoint someone who has never, ever managed as a number one at a club like Arsenal. I think that would be ridiculous for a club like Arsenal. It doesn’t matter how intelligent he is or what he’s done because doing it as a number two is nothing like doing it as a number one.”
Arsenal’s managerial position for next season has come into much debate since Arsene Wenger announced he would be departing the club after 22 years as their manager. In the build-up to finding the new manager, many notable names have been linked, but also a host of names who are currently assistant managers at top Premier League clubs.
First, it was former Arsenal star and current Manchester City assistant manager, Mikel Arteta, and later Manchester United assistant manager Rui Faria was also linked with the job. In the latest of developments, Buvac has emerged into a contender to take up the soon-to-be-vacant manager’s position.
Buvac is reportedly available after leaving his job as the assistant manager at Liverpool following a bust up last week. While the Reds have said that the Bosnian is only on a temporary leave for ‘personal reasons’, widespread reports have suggested otherwise, linking him to the Arsenal job.
It’s been reported that the brains behind such an appointment is Arsenal’s head of recruitment, Sven Mislintat, who is thought to be forging a different kind of management team for the future at Arsenal, seemingly moving away from a more established system.
Danny Murphy does have a point though, in that experience should determine the new manager rather than experiment, and that an appointment of Buvac’s stature would be viable for a lower division club, but not for a side as big as Arsenal.
Only the coming weeks will determine the identity of Arsenal’s new manager as speculation continues to rise surrounding the position. It remains to be seen if the next boss indeed is Buvac, or if someone else takes up the job instead.
