Arsenal is a team that is transformed under Renee Slegers. No page has won more points (21) in Women’s Super League in 2025. The rate they score past opponents (3.6 per match), and the design of these goals is also rather remarkable.
This from a team that looked completely exposed to confidence at the start of the season. Lack of imagination and creativity, weighed down by the pressure from expectation rather than being bent by it.
Under the Dutch woman, Arsenal has won 37 points from 14 WSL games, two shy for leaders Chelsea’s total amounts in the same period. Gunners are currently six points behind Sonia Bompastor’s side during the title, though the gorge could be halved if they beat Leicester on Tuesday night, live on Sky Sports.
It’s hard to remember a manager who has such immediate influence. Of course, Slegers’ promotion to the main coach has benefited from some continuity after working within former boss Jonas Eidevall’s technical team since September 2023, but her footprint as Arsenal’s leader is no less impressive.
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Slegers admits freely to sit in a casual attitude in his office at Arsenal’s training ground, the transition from temporary head to permanently took longer than expected – however, recovery in the results has come so little shock.
“It’s hard to say what I was expecting. What we wanted in my temporary period was to get the team started again, stabilize with consistency. We did it. The temporary period was longer than what I expected, but we’ve put ourselves in a good position if we look at where we came from. I’m really happy.
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“We did a lot at first about our culture and behavior. It actually went faster than I expected. We have organically developed our game as a result of it.”
Current form is the limit perfect. This is the Gunners’ best race of League victories since seven consecutive triumphs between October-December 2023. Stretch further back, they have won 10 of their last 11, lost points only to Chelsea.
Arsenal threatened to drop out of WSL’s establishment in the early parts of this campaign, but the comeback story has forced fans to re-engage. This is how epochs become memorable. A team in crisis that shapes a team in violation can be something special. Slegers certainly enjoys his comb for one-wave moment.
“The biggest victory has been the way the team takes ownership,” she says. “They’ve been so determined to bring something more. Their thinking was so good for the first few months and they were so eager to work together to make things better. I’m so glad it went in that direction.”
And nothing about this moment of Arsenal Excellence has been random. Sometimes the team has had to scrape, come from behind, stick to a narrow lead, play less beautiful than the normal style of the Slegers, but these components have built faith. Antagonistic arsenal is something really quite new.
“First we built faith in proof. We have found the perfect combination of faith by proving that we can do things and trust that we know we can achieve something more. We use the special moments – fight back against West him, come from behind towards Liverpool, beat Real Madrid – as examples and continue to reinforce them.”
It really was the only way. Slegers knew she had to break the cycle of dissatisfaction inherited from the Eidevall era and start again. No sideshows, just business.
Arsenal has scored 45 goals in the Renee SleGers ’14 WSL game, most of any team since her appointment
“I see the world and football through my eyes. I am a person other than Jonas [Eidevall]. I come from something else I use differently and it will always be so. Of course, things will change if the group and football are seen through someone else’s eyes.
“What I’ve learned is that it’s good for me to be calm, we connect well like this, within the team and staff. It has been a success factor that I really want to continue. If I present myself in a calm way, I can organize my thoughts and we can be sharp and effective as a roof on the touch line.”
Arsenal’s ‘Big Club’ persona has returned. SLGERS ‘WIN ratio of 85.7 percent is the highest of any Gunners -Head coach who has taken responsibility for 10 plus games. Firm WSL goals scored, most of any team since her appointment is just one example of such positive noise.
It even starts to clarify Bompastor’s bubble. The price of the league’s ‘best newcomer’ is actually will be up to consideration. Who had believed that? There is no major compliment considering how relentless Chelsea has performed.
Ultimately, the prey of this campaign may be few in terms of tangible silverware for Sile’s. But progress and a development of harmony are ready for everyone to see. “Fans bring the other things, feelings and energy, but I want to be a quiet presence. In pressed moments that’s what players need,” she emphasizes.
Some triumphs may feel more striking than trophies. The joy of football, adaptation with fans, the excitement of a Champions League semi-final against Lyon at the end of the week among them. Something more would be an unexpected bonus.
Still not bad for a WSL-first-hour.
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