Former Ashanti Gold Sporting Director Roy Arthur has been tipped as the ideal candidate for Hearts of Oak’s Sporting Directorship role, max.com.gh has learned.
The former BA United CEO, is currently the Sporting Director of Premier League side Legon Cities and, in the course of a season, has transferred more players to European clubs the likes of Jonah Attuquaye to Auda FK and others on trials.
According to sources within the Phobia family, pressure is mounting on the club’s hierarchy following a boisterous 2022–23 season where the Rainbow Club flirted with relegation until the last game of the season.
Fans of the capital club have expressed their dissatisfaction with the performance of the club’s executive hierarchy, led by Alhaji Akambi and Vincent Odotei.
Supporters of the club want a new direction for the club, and Roy Arthur’s name has come up strongly for the job.
Roy Arthur, a former Central Regional Football Association chairman aspirant, has vast knowledge of football, having worked at several clubs in varied capacities.
EXPERIENCE OF ROY ARTHUR TILL DATE
Roy Arthur had been a shrewd football scout, intermediary and head of sporting projects with different clubs and academies in Ghana and Europe in almost two decades. As the Sporting Director of Accra-based Legon Cities football club.
He joined Legon Cities prior to the start of the 2022/2023 Ghana premier league season with a clear sporting project of identifying, nurturing, developing and finding international opportunities for Ghana’s next generation of football stars.
Roy Arthur is widely experienced in football sporting projects across scouting, recruitment, transfers and club administration.
Having lived and worked widely with clubs in Italy following a brief professional career that ended prematurely due to injury in 2001, Roy began working on Ghanaian football sporting projects in 2006 with Atlas Sports management, led by his brother, Oliver Arthur, who currently runs Arthurlegacy Sports as CEO. He later did mainstream club football administration as the international relations officer for Bechem United FC. It was the period of several international tournament participation by the Bono-based club, mainly in juvenile and youth competitions in Italy including the famed Romeo and Juliet cup in 2008, Trofeo Rocco in 2009 and the Atlas Classic tournament in 2014.
He was CEO of BA stars in 2012, BA United in 2013-2014 and progressed them to top flight in 2015, he played a very instrumental role in the club’s development, restructuring and transition from lower tier side to a model club.
Roy went on to become CEO of Berekum Arsenal in the 2015-2016 season and was Manager of the Accra United Sporting Club in 2021.
Roy Arthur was also a management member of the Black Maidens in 2012, Black Queens from 2015 to 2018 and the Black princesses from 2013 to 2014, playing various strategic roles. During his tenure as a management member, the Black Queens placed third in the AFCON 2016 and were crowned champions at the African Games.
In the area of player transfers, Roy is credited with scouting and facilitating the transfers of several young talents from Ghana to Europe. Notable amongst these players are Afriyie Acquah and Richmond Boakye Yiadom
Who have had long international careers with the Ghana national teams at various youth and senior levels and a decade each of club football in Italy with some of the finest teams including Juventus, Parma, Palermo, Atalanta, Sampdoria and Genoa.
The others are Joseph Barfour Gyawu, Issifu Lamptey, Fiifi Coleman and many more.
He is currently credited with leading Legon Cities’ reinvigoration in a new Ghana premier league season that promises a podium finish.
