On the story behind the second departure of “Super Jack” from Arsenal
• Wilshere is a former youth player for Arsenal who retired from professional football in 2022.
• He made 197 first-team appearances for the Gunners after joining the club in 2008.
Jack Wilshere (32) has decided to leave Arsenal once again to take up a job as first-team coach at Norwich City after being approached for about two weeks and he eventually chose to move there.
“Super Jack” retired from football in 2022 after suffering injuries throughout his final years of professional football with Danish club Aarhus. Before going there, he had no club to play for almost half a year. During that time, he worked as a coach with Arsenal until he retired and turned to manage the under-18 team for the Gunners since then.
According to The Athletic, Wilshere has a good relationship with the club’s youth coach Per Mertesacker, who invited him to study coaching back in 2017. He has followed that path ever since. Wilshere worked with the team for around two years. Before deciding to look for the next step in his managerial career.
It is said that he has informed the youth team players, and the youngsters were sad to see him leave. Many parents said that Wilshere looked after the players very well. Off the pitch. They would ask about their lives and how to look after themselves properly. On the pitch, he was dedicated to teaching them. Because for many children, Jack Wilshere is a name that they know as a “cult hero” at this club.
As a representative of the youth players who have successfully played in the first team. Wilshere was the first player since moving to the Emirates Stadium in 2006 to be able to play in the first team in full. His name and the image of him at Hale-End training ground are one of the inspirations for many children who want to follow in his footsteps, just like Bukayo Saka is today. A role model for children of the present and future generations.
Wilshere’s work over the past two years has seen the development of young players go according to plan, with Ethan Vaneri, Myles Lewis-Skelly and Eden Haven all having worked with him before, and now Max Downman, a 14-year-old boy is said to have a lot of potential at youth level, has also grown up under his tutelage.
However, there have been “rumours” that Wilshere is unhappy with the opportunities he has been given to develop his coaching career at Arsenal, with the ทางเข้า ufabet club suggesting that he would like to gain experience working with the U-19s, who play in the UEFA Youth League. But the club have instead given the job to coach Max Potter, with Wilshere only working as an assistant coach.
This has not been confirmed, given the fact that there are still many coaching positions available at Arsenal, so Wilshere is still waiting for his chance and gaining experience. And when Norwich City made an interesting offer. It would not be surprising for him to take it. As this is an opportunity for rapid growth in this career.
“The Canaries” Norwich are currently in the Championship, ranked 7th. Wilshere will be part of the first team, working with Danish coach Johannes Tarup, who is only 35 years old. He is only three years older than Wilshere. But has been working as a coach since 2012, from the youth team to the first team. It will be interesting to see how the young men will work together.
In addition, Ben Knapper, the first former Loan Manager of Arsenal, who is now the sporting director of Norwich, and Tony Roberts, the former goalkeeping coach of the Gunners, are waiting to work with him there. It can be said that he is not a stranger there. It should be a good start to his coaching career. While comparing someone of a similar age. Such as Jorginho has a goal to become a coach but is currently still playing, compared to Wilshere who has been directly coaching for 3-4 years, looking at it this way, Wilshere’s life after retirement is quite ahead of others. We have to wait and see whether this person will do well on the sidelines or not.
Arsenal are still unclear on who they will choose to replace Wilshere. They have lost someone who was an inspiration to the club’s youth team at the same time. That is something they have to deal with and one day everything will fall into place. It’s a cycle like this… “Because this is the way of football.”