[Thead] Ben Knapper - Arsenal's Loan Manager.

It is usually the big guys, your Artetas, Edus and Vinais who make the headlines for Arsenal but there are so many more men and women who are putting in their best to make Arsenal successful and Ben Knapper is one of them.

His presence might surprise a few but Ben Knapper would be playing a key role during this transfer window as he would looking after some of Arsenal's brightest prospects in William Saliba and potential Joe Willock and Reiss Nelson.

In this thread, I'll discuss

- The background of Ben Knapper and the post he holds.
- His primary duties.
- His impact.

Ben Knapper first joined Arsenal in 2010 as an Analyst from statistical analysis firm Prozone. He has since then worked his way and was promoted from the post of senior football analyst to newly created post of Loan Manager in February 2019.

Arsenal didn't have a loan manager for a long time, though after observing several top Premier League adopt the new model and employing loan manager and few incidents of mismanagement of players out on loan, Arsenal final created a post of loan manager.