The vast number of scouts that have been let go by Arsenal over the past 48 hours are not part of the proposed 55 redundancies that the club announced on Wednesday.
The departures - including that of head of recruitment Francis Cagigao - are separate to the planned cuts as the scouts are contractors and are in fact the result of a review that has been carried out by technical director Edu, who plans to now implement his own blueprint for the recruitment department at the north London club.
As well as Cagigao, who had been at Arsenal for more than two decades, senior scouts Brian McDermott and Peter Clark were also told on Wednesday that they no longer had jobs.