This article was originally published on www.si.com as Man Utd Legend ‘to Join’ Arsenal Staff to Replace Mikel Arteta’s Assistant.

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has been looking to add to his backroom staff after assistant coach Carlos Cuesta became Parma’s head coach earlier this summer. Arteta has known Heinze since he was a teenager at Paris Saint-Germain, where the pair played together over a decade ago.

The Palace attacking midfielder is of interest to Arsenal - and he would provide something Arteta's team have been missing