Arsenal director Josh Kroenke says he finds it hard to truly relate to the club's supporters

Arsenal director Josh Kroenke has admitted that he struggles to understand the passion that fans of the club have. Kroenke — together with his father Stan — took ownership of the club in 2018 after buying out Alisher Usmanov's remaining shares. Ad/> But the American family have not had an easy ride in the four years since, with underwhelming performances on the pitch being compounded by huge anger at the club's purported involvement in the European Super League.

Premier League'It was like they won the league' — Neves hits out at Arsenal celebrations10/02/2022 AT 23:47 Kroenke nevertheless feels that whole saga brought him into more conversations with fans. Talking on /> , he said: «I do listen to our supporters over there. »I listen to our fans here [in America] with our teams but the level of passion that is involved in European football, and support that goes into these clubs – I don't wanna say it's deeper than anything we have over here – but it's way deeper than anything we have over here.

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«I think part of being a good leader is making unpopular decisions on behalf of the group and part of being a good leader is listening to the group and understanding when to back off. »That's what we did. Once we had a full understanding of what was going on – very quickly – the right thing to do as a leader was to get out of the process.