Arsenal director Josh Kroenke: We're laying foundations of really bright future

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16 Feb 2022 • 9:36 PM MYT
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Arsenal director Josh Kroenke insists the team has a "bright future" ahead.

Arsenal spent nearly £150million revamping their squad last summer, specifically targeting players aged 23 or younger, and manager Mikel Arteta has already called for the recruitment drive to continue after a quiet January transfer window.

Despite supporter unrest, Kroenke is convinced he and his father can succeed at Arsenal, highlighting the success they have had with their other sports teams such as the NFL's Los Angeles Rams, who won the Super Bowl on Sunday.

“Now that we have 100 per cent of the club, we've had it only since 2018, we're laying the foundations of a really bright future," Kroenke told the Road Trippin' podcast.

“I think if any of the Arsenal fanbase wants to look at our teams here in North America, which surprisingly they don't do very often. I don't think they don't care, they are really curious as to how we do our operations. 'How do you do this? How do you do that? How do you want to do this?'

“Really what I just say is we're very proud - over here [in America] we draft and develop - at Arsenal we have an amazing academy, where these kids come through and work their way up.

“So you see the foundation of the culture that I talked about starting to take shape and I think you see it starting to manifest itself on the pitch.

“We're sitting in sixth in the league, we need to be higher, our goals are to be higher, but to be there with the youngest squad in the Premier League, I think is something every Arsenal fan should get behind."


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