I never expected to like Stan Kroenke or KSE. I never expected to warm to him. Aggressive venture capitalists don’t tend to be my kind of people. Were he to sell the club tomorrow, I am pretty certain that I wouldn’t like to go for a beer and a sing song with the next owner of Arsenal either. I expected KSE to make unpopular decisions that would test my relationship with my club. A Super League has very clearly been Kroenke’s end-game from day number one. It’s why he hired Ivan Gazidis, now the red-faced CEO of AC Milan and one of the other hapless engineers of this week’s Grade A clusterfuck. It is also why Kroenke hired Raul Sanllehi to his executive team, he wanted Raul’s...
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