{"id":84791,"date":"2025-08-15T13:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/84791\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:04:07","slug":"arsenal-confirm-new-u21-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/84791\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal confirm new u21 head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Arsenal have officially confirmed that Max Porter is the club\u2019s new u21 head coach, with the former interim coach now taking on the job full-time.<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MP2_tk32kfjz-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Max Porter with Arsenal (Photo via Arsenal.com)\" class=\"wp-image-335004\" title=\"Arsenal confirm new u21 head coach 2\" \/>Photo via Arsenal.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arsenal.com\/news\/max-porter-becomes-under-21s-head-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Arsenal<\/a> have officially announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycannon.com\/tag\/max-porter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Porter<\/a> will be the club\u2019s new permanent head coach, with the manager previously taking charge of the club\u2019s u9s, u13s, u17s, u19s, and most recently the u21s on an interim basis.<\/p>\n<p>Following the departure of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycannon.com\/tag\/mehmet-ali\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mehmet Ali<\/a> to Brentford\u2019s first-team staff this summer, the u21 job was up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal held talks with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycannon.com\/tag\/jack-wilshere\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Wilshere<\/a> over a potential return to the club, but Wilshere ultimately turned down the option of joining in a supporting role. The former Gunner is instead looking to pursue a job in senior football management.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"721\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Gav-IB2acAAb4xF-1024x721.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Wilshere working as a coach at Norwich City (Photo via Norwich City FC on Twitter)\" class=\"wp-image-311874\" title=\"Arsenal confirm new u21 head coach 3\"\/>Photo via Norwich City FC on Twitter<\/p>\n<p>On Porter, academy manager <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycannon.com\/tag\/per-mertesacker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Per Mertesacker<\/a> said: \u201cMax has got the qualities needed to be a successful leader and coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe environment he creates for staff and young players is always one of high challenge and ultimate care. Max is driving the highest standards and is a brilliant colleague and coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all looking forward to supporting Max as he continues to develop in this role, and thank him for all his hard work and commitment so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_Ken-Gillard-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"U18 boss Ken Gillard (Photo via Football.London)\" class=\"wp-image-196983\" title=\"Arsenal confirm new u21 head coach 4\" \/>Photo via Football.London<\/p>\n<p>As per <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycannon.com\/2025\/08\/jack-wilshere-arsenal-decision\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent reports<\/a>, the job that Wilshere had been offered was to take charge of the u19s in the UEFA Youth League, the u21s in the EFL Trophy, and then to act as an assistant to Porter in the Premier League 2.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal have now confirmed that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycannon.com\/tag\/ken-gillard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Gillard<\/a> will support Porter this season, so presumably he\u2019ll take that on that same task of leading the team in the u19 and EFL Trophy matches.<\/p>\n<p>The u21 season kicks off on Friday night with Arsenal\u2019s game against Fulham in the Premier League 2, with all league matches <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycannon.com\/2025\/08\/arsenal-premier-league-2-streams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to be streamed on Arsenal.com<\/a> this season.<\/p>\n<p>Related Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal have officially confirmed that Max Porter is the club\u2019s new u21 head coach, with the former interim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[45319,7482,45320,58788,403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-84791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-arsenal-u21s","9":"tag-arsenal-youth","10":"tag-jack-wilshere","11":"tag-max-porter","12":"tag-soccer","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}