Assistant Sporting Director Ayto leaving Arsenal after 11 years
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Training Ground Guru
May 25, 2025
Arsenal Assistant Sporting Director Jason Ayto is leaving the club after more than a decade.
Ayto began scouting for the Gunners in 2014 and went on to become their Recruitment Co-Ordinator and then Assistant Sporting Director in April 2023.
When Edu resigned as Sporting Director in November 2024, Ayto took on his role on an interim basis. He was a strong contender to take the position on a permanent basis, but Andrea Berta was eventually preferred in March 2025.
Now Ayto will serve a period of gardening leave before leaving the club to pursue other opportunities.
When Edu was promoted to become Arsenal’s first Sporting Director in November 2022, he personally asked for Ayto, with whom he had been working closely, to be appointed as his Assistant.
Ayto subsequently played an important part in the overhaul of the club’s recruitment department in 2020, which led to several scouts being made redundant and in-house analytics company StatDNA coming more to the fore.
Ayto also became increasingly involved in transfer and contract negotiations.
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