Arsenal head coach Unai Emery has said he is used to working with a sporting director amid rumours linking the Gunners with Roma's Monchi.
The club's former head of recruitment, Sven Mislintat, left the club earlier this month after his role looked set to be diminished, rather than evolve into the technical director job he had hoped, per Amy Lawrence of the Guardian.
As such, Arsenal are in need of a new person to take charge of their recruitment.
Monchi has a stellar reputation from his time at Roma and, most notably, Sevilla, where he worked with Emery, and Arsenal are prepared to pay the £2 million buyout clause to prise him away from his current role, per Italian outlet Il Messaggero (h/t Sam Elliott of the Mirror).