Arsenal fans have urged owner Stan Kroenke to pump far more money into the club after the LA Rams won their first Super Bowl with the help of over £5billion in investment from the US tycoon.
Gunners fans staged huge protests against the owners last year after the Kroenke's signed the club up to the doomed European Super League.
The Super League plot was seen as the final straw for many fans who had grown ever more frustrated with the team's decline, at first in the last few years of Arsene Wenger's long reign and then in the aftermath of the Frenchman's departure in 2018.
Arsenal last won the Premier League and have not managed to even challenge for the league since 2015/16, while they last competed in the Champions League in 2016/17.
So watching the Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals in the Super Bowl, at the franchise's £4billion Sofi Stadium (which they share with the LA Chargers), led many Arsenal fans to call for a similar level of investment in the north London club.
One Twitter used said Arsenal would have won the Champions League by now if Kroenke had invested half of the money into the Gunners as he had spent on the Rams.
As well as the stadium, regarded by many as the top sports arena in the world, Kroenke has spent big on the Rams' squad since controversially taking the team back to Los Angeles from St Louis in 2015.
The Rams signed star wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr from Cleveland and gave up draft picks until 2024 in order to bring in quarterback Matthew Stafford from Detroit and sign linebacker Von Miller from Denver.
Kroenke's investment in the franchise has paid off, and not just in terms of the silverware triumph.
Even before beating Cincinnati, the Rams were named the third most valuable team in the NFL, with an estimated value of £3.4billion. The Super Bowl is set to earn them an extra £350million.
Kroenke is far tighter with money when it comes to Arsenal in general, although last year the Gunners spent £142million on transfers, more than any other club in Europe.
He also shows his face far less. He has not visited north London since attending Wenger's last game as manager in 2018 and the last time he addressed fans was in the club's programme at the start of the season. His son Joshua is more visible, speaking to Sky Sports News in November about the failed Super League.
Whenever Mikel Arteta wants to speak to the owner he has to come to him, such as when the coach flew to Denver last month to get Kroenke to rubber-stamp him cutting loose Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Voubmpsuy
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he should sell arsenal. he is a scum
dougiefresh
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all arsenal fans should be happy for the RAMS cause their turn is coming next
Gerhard10
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Wait Kroenke Is An American His A Sole Owner Of Arsenal And Owns The Rams He was planning this already and it worked So..now he will be able to invest in The Club Trust the Process ,Arteta And The Kroenke's Are Up to something In Wengers Era where did you see 145 million spend ...Fan's with no research and Internal information...
Layabors
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The problem of Arsenal is Arteta, not Kroenke. He constantly provides funds for squad improvements but Edu and Arteta re clueless
Please shut up 🤐. What do you know? Nothing so zipped your mouth shut.
bupceioruy
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Oga just sell this club to a real Arsenal fan like Dangote so that there will be joy for the fans or better still sell to Arab billionaires
bohabdeopz
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The problem of Arsenal is Arteta, not Kroenke. He constantly provides funds for squad improvements but Edu and Arteta re clueless
Zetcemopst
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Kroenke's lost Arsenal Fc and still he has not found it yet.
Zetcemopst
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Kroenke's just do not know where Arsenal is.
Sadek85
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1 day arsenal fans gonna understand kroenke don’t care about them
DADDYLONGDICK
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Atlases the man have being putting plenty money making from Emirate to the super Bowl now is time to put money back in Arsenal fc so them can get better players that can make the club great back to how them are doing great before
Rams income is way more than Arsenals so its the other way around.
DADDYLONGDICK
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Europeans and Arsenal fans should've never protested the European Super League in the first place. The European Super League was going to be set to make their clubs richer along with investing huge amount of money into small teams around Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, Middle East, Oceania, South America, and Central America to help those get financially rich and better. UEFA and Fifa were just money greedy knowing they'll lose a lot and now look at them looking to plan the world cup every 2 years. And the owners of those clubs being American weren't helping change minds.
nohbdekrsy
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Atlases the man have being putting plenty money making from Emirate to the super Bowl now is time to put money back in Arsenal fc so them can get better players that can make the club great back to how them are doing great before
cemabpruyz
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Although it did show that pouring tons of money into getting quality players pays off. The Rams went out and got the pieces they needed.
cemabpruyz
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He’s not going to put money into the club because the Rams won the super bowl. Actually they really don’t get a huge check for winning it.
BIG-Timmy
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Why do Arsenal fans think kroenke spent that high in the summer, its to forestall this kind of demand from the Arsenal fans. while I do not see wholesale spending this summer, except Arteta complete a mission impossible and qualify for UCL. #KroenkeOut will be the shouting again come next season