Manchester City assistant coach Mikel Arteta has informed the club that he has held talks with Arsenal about succeeding Unai Emery as permanent head coach at the Emirates Stadium.



An initial discussion took place last week between Arteta and Arsenal’s head of football Raul Sanllehi and that was followed up on Sunday night when the 37-year-old spent time with the London club’s managing director Vinai Venkatesham and director of football operations Huss Fahmy.



The first meeting was conducted by Sanllehi, Arsenal’s primary negotiator, and the second — from which photographs emerged of Venkatesham and Fahmy leaving Arteta’s Manchester apartment in the early hours of Monday — involved those responsible for concluding the financial side of their deals.



Arsenal wanted to sit down with Arteta after Sunday’s Premier League game between the sides in London, which City won comfortably 3-0, but he needed to travel back to the...