Stan Kroenke is the first ever majority owner in Arsenal’s history, and very soon will probably be the first 100% owner. He paid around £425m to buy 67% of the club in a number of different purchases, and has now agreed a deal with Alisher Usmanov for the Uzbek’s 30.04%, which is 18,695 shares. That…

Stability in football management for its own sake is no use. During the time Alex Ferguson was managing Man Utd, Real Madrid, a club of comparable stature, had 22 managers. United won 13 titles and two Champions Leagues; Real won 11 titles and three Champions Leagues. That’s not much different, and Ferguson’s stats and bio…

Yesterday saw the annual summer “Supporters’ Event” at Arsenal, hosted by CEO Ivan Gazidis. You have, I’m sure, read my fairly brief thoughts on it in today’s Islington Gazette, but I thought I’d expand a little as I’ve more space here. I’ve written disparagingly about these events in the past (with good reason), but this…

Now that Arsene has finally departed we can look at his complete record against the complete records of all his predecessors as Arsenal manager. I first posted this table about four years ago, then again earlier this year – but at the time we didn’t know Arsene was heading towards the exit. As well as…

*** There is an updated version of this post here following Kroenke gaining 100% control in summer 2018*** Stan Kroenke is the first ever majority owner in Arsenal’s history, currently holding just over two-thirds of the shares. Specifically, as at May 2018, he holds 41,743 shares of the total of 62,219, which is 67.09 per…

Someone asked me a while back whether Arsenal would have been better off staying at Highbury another ten or 12 years before building a new stadium, in what you might call the Spurs method. I considered this for a few seconds and decided that it was a flawed theory. But, said the questioner, look what’s…

History shows us that after 12 matches of a Premier League season there is just over a 1 in 3 chance that someone will still be unbeaten. So this will happen on average about once in every three seasons. Any team still unbeaten after 12 matches is almost certain to be one of the title…

I hesitate to write another Arsenal share price post, because every time I do something seems to change within a day or two and make it out of date. I talked about a new record price and the market-makers then raising the bid and ask prices a couple of times, and immediately another share was…

As a post script to my last post, I see the price of an Arsenal share has gone up again today – without any even being traded. I mentioned last time that market makers, who decide the ‘bid’, ‘ask’ and ‘mid’ prices, had decided for reasons unknown to increase these markers following a couple of…

It seems like every other blog post I’ve written in the last 12 months has been about a new record price for Arsenal shares. Stan Kroenke must have blisters from rubbing his hands together in glee so often. The latest development was a share being traded for £31,000 on March 2nd. The lucky buyer, and…