By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 11 May 2012 The world’s foremost sports tycoons, many of them US entertainment entrepreneurs, are increasingly turning to football as America’s interest in the sport grows and as Stateside investors realise there is only one truly global game. Sportingintelligence has compiled a list of the […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 11 April 2011 So Stan Kroenke has done the deals that will give him almost 63 per cent ownership of Arsenal and triggers a mandatory bid for the rest of the shares that may or may not see him take a full holding. As we […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 11 April 2011 Updated at 10.30am American billionaire Stan Kroenke has taken his stake in Arsenal to almost 63 per cent by doing deals to buy the shares of Danny Fiszman and Lady Nina Bracewell Smith in a move that will cost him £234m for […]

* By Nick Harris 15 October 2010 With Liverpool’s ownership dispute settled, another American owner of a Premier League club is about to start reshaping a club, and that’s not a bad thing according to at least one expert interviewed elsewhere on sportingintelligence. The move by John W Henry of the Boston Red Sox into English […]

By Nick Harris 26 August 2010 The NFL’s official approval for the US billionaire Stan Kroenke to take full control of the St Louis Rams will see control of other key American sports assets pass into the hands of his son, Josh, and provides the second sign within a fortnight that no full takeover at […]

By Nick Harris 13 April 2010 Stan Kroenke, the billionaire American sports franchise owner who is also the single largest shareholder in Arsenal, decided in the early hours of this morning (late Monday, US time) to make a bid for complete ownership of the St Louis Rams NFL franchise, in contravention of widespread belief he […]

By Nick Harris 13 April 2009 Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith is believed to be seeking around £100m for her 15.9 per cent stake in Arsenal, for which she is seeking buyers via Blackstone, the New York-headquartered global investment and advisory firm. That would value each of her 9,893 shares at just more than the market rate […]

21 December 2009 Stan Kroenke has bought another 25 shares in Arsenal at £8,500 each. That takes him within 17 shares of the “trigger” holding that would make a bid for the whole club mandatory. The American made the purchase on 17 December but it was only made public today in a statement to the […]

By Nick Harris 20 May 2015 Paris Saint-Germain are the best paid team in global sport according to Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS) for 2015, compiled in association with ESPN The Magazine and published today. The average first-team pay at PSG has been calculated at £5.3m per year, or £101,8983 per week in the period under review. PSG have just completed […]

* ARSENE Wenger has helped to transform English football, on and off the pitch, since his arrival at Arsenal from Japan in 1996. Silverware and plaudits followed but since 2005, when the ‘big money era’ of Roman Abramovich’s Chelsea and Sheikh Mansour’s Manchester City have led to increased competition in the Premier League, the Gunners […]