Arsenal eye Premier League’s chief medical officer Mark Gillett as potential replacement for Gary O’Driscoll

Arsenal would like to talk to the Premier League’s chief medical officer Mark Gillett as they prepare for Gary O’Driscoll’s imminent departure, according to the Daily Mail.

The North London club are set to lose their head of sports medicine and performance to Manchester United.

O’Driscoll is expected to see out a lengthy notice period before taking up his position at the Old Trafford club, which would allow Arsenal to carry out a full recruitment process.

The Gunners have now started the process of identifying replacements for the 52-year-old.

Gillett has vast experience having previously worked at Chelsea and West Brom Albion before taking up his current position with the Premier League in 2018 following ten years of working across the division.

He has plenty of experience and quality and would be a perfect replacement for O’Driscoll, who has been with Arsenal since February 2009.

Gillett worked for the English Institute of Sport as a sports physician for five years before becoming the first team doctor at Chelsea in 2008.

He moved to West Brom two years later as director of performance and joined Nottingham Forest in 2018.

The 53-year-old was a member of the Great Britain team at the London Olympics as Chief Medical Officer to the men’s and women’s basketball squads in 2012.

Gillett was once the chairman of the Premier League Doctors Group and was training program director for Sports and Exercise Medicine in the West Midlands between 2009 and 2016 and deputy chair of the national training committee from 2014 to 2016.

It remains to be seen whether Arsenal will appoint him as O’Driscoll’s replacement, but he has what it takes to take their medical department to the next level.