We need to think like winners EDU WANTS NEW GUNNERS MENTALITY

GUNNERS legend Edu insists Arsenal must bring back a winning mentality throughout the whole club.

Former Arsenal midfielder Edu has been brought br back as the club’s first ever technic technical director to help try and rebuild the fou foundations and get them back to winnin winning trophies.

Edu w was a member of the Invincibles title-wi title-winning team as a player, but now retu returns with a brief to oversee rsee a all aspects of the club b f from youth set-up to f first team as well as i d ent i f y i n g and keeping top talent.

It will be a tough task as Arsenal are about to o start a third consecutive tive sea season in the Europa League, they hav have struggled to make big signings so far this summer and the fans are get getting restless.

B But ex-Brazil star Edu (above) said it is not just the players but the wh whole club that must improve after a steady decline in the past few se seasons which has seen them go fro from title challengers to also-rans.

“To work with a strong mentality, yo you don’t do it instantly,” said Edu. “You build a good mentality. When you talk about mentality, it’s not only the players. The club has to have the same mentality as the players.

“We have to have the same mentality, and the mentality of Arsenal, we always had to have winning in front of us. That’s football. That’s the real world. When you’re talking about good jobs, doing other things, without results I’m not sure it works.

“It’s Its unfair maybe, but the reality is lik like that. We have to fight very h hard for results and we have to u understand the real world, where you live and where you are right now. So we are at A Arsenal, we are a big club. “Winning... fight for winning, and how do you do that? We have to prepare ourselves. How? By working hard, by giving everything, giving us a chance to be better and better, and working really hard to be where the club wants to be.”

Edu, who is taking a watching brief in this window and will start his role in earnest after the transfer deadline, admits that Arsenal will face a tricky job winning over some of the sceptical fans as they have yet to make any major signings.

He said: “We have to understand the fans. That’s important. But they have to understand us as well. Because we have a philosophy. The club is changing a lot, so I see before I signed up for technical director, I saw the many changes now Arsene Wenger left.

“The structure of the club changes a lot. So that’s a process, sometimes we need time. I understand that time is going against us but we have to be aware of that. But in the end, we’re going to give to them some good things I am sure. Since I started to talk with managing directors Vinai Venkatesham and Raul Sanllehi about that job, I felt the energy of the club. I felt the very positive things around it.

“That’s why I really believe and that’s why I am here as well, because I feel we will do good things in the future. Not the future-future, but nearly there!”

Edu also believes Arsenal can get finish in the top four in May. He added: “I’m not saying dream, but focused to be fighting for the Champions League again. Of course that’s our target.

“To make the squad even stronger and I want to see the fans enjoying, as before, the club even more.

“I know how they live the club, how they love the club and we have to give them something back so they can enjoy again.”