Arsenal great Patrick Vieira has explained why he is support Swedish billionaire Daniel Ek's attempt to buy out Stan Kroenke,
Vieira says he's spoke to Ek, though not about his specific plans for the club.
He told the Daily Mail: "Because the way that he talks about the club, the way he talks about the feeling he has for this club and what he is prepared to do for this club.
"When somebody is passionate about something, you have a feeling about it. I believe he can bring back the glory days at Arsenal if he managed to buy it. But to buy it, the guys need to sell and maybe the Kroenkes don't want to sell.
"But Daniel can be the right person to bring back this union that you used to have at this club between the fans, players and the ownership. I found him to be someone who knew a lot about Arsenal, loved Arsenal and was a true Arsenal fan. I found somebody who really wanted to build something simple around the fans. That is something that pushed us to support him.
"What's going wrong at Arsenal is not just this year, it's the last couple of years. When you look at Arsenal in the Arsene Wenger era, you always had this kind of figure, a strong personality, who could represent the club.
"Through the years, Arsenal has lost a little bit of identity, not just on the field but off the field as well. When I talk about identity on the field, in my time at Arsenal you had players like Tony Adams, Martin Keown, Nigel Winterburn, Lee Dixon, who had been at the club for years. When you got there, those players made you understand the club's DNA, what Arsenal means.
"Through the years, Arsenal has lost this kind of identity. People now realise that in losing Arsene, they lost more than a manager or coach. Arsene had a massive impact on Arsenal in every department. Since he left [in 2018] maybe there wasn't the right people to fill all the positions that Arsene was doing.
"They brought a scouting guy [Sven Mislintat] from Germany who stayed a little bit. They brought this kind of CEO or sporting director [Raul Sanllehi] from Spain who didn't stay very long.
"Losing Arsene and this kind of person coming into the club did not give the club the stability it needed to build a new era, a new foundation. It's like building a house. You want to build a house on solid foundations. That is the biggest problem in the last couple of years at Arsenal."
