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Arsenal: 5 deciding factors facing Spotify CEO Daniel Ek’s takeover

By Ross Kennerley

SUN VALLEY, ID - JULY 9: Daniel Ek, chief executive officer of Spotify, arrives at the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 9, 2019 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Every July, some of the world's most wealthy and powerful businesspeople from the media, finance, and technology spheres converge at the Sun Valley Resort for the exclusive weeklong conference. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
SUN VALLEY, ID - JULY 9: Daniel Ek, chief executive officer of Spotify, arrives at the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 9, 2019 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Every July, some of the world's most wealthy and powerful businesspeople from the media, finance, and technology spheres converge at the Sun Valley Resort for the exclusive weeklong conference. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) /
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LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 23: Arsenal fans protest against the European Super League and Owner Stan Kroenke outside the stadium prior to the Premier League match between Arsenal and Everton at Emirates Stadium. (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images) /

KSE Don’t Care if Fans Protest

It’s not something any supporter wants to hear, especially those who brilliantly protested in their thousands ahead of the Premier League clash with Everton, but the truth is that they simply don’t care.

Call them thick-skinned or immoral robots programmed without human emotion, it doesn’t really matter. Over in American Stan Kroenke earned the title of the “most hated man” in St. Louis by the Washington Post. This is nothing new.

Moving the St. Louis Rams all the way over to Los Angeles, where a $6bn stadium was constructed to house the team, he has no friends in Missouri. Supporters in the city still chant ‘Kroenke sucks’. It’s somewhat more R-rated in the UK.

All the criticism, all the banners, all the chanting and all the pure hatred doesn’t affect them.

Even less so considering they don’t even live in the UK, let alone London. All they’ll see is what appears on the news, and that is working on the basis that they even turn the television on in the first place.

That doesn’t mean fan protest hasn’t had an impact, though. Ek’s tweet came out mid-demonstration, implying he was fully aware of events outside the Emirates, if not watching them unfold on the news. As an Arsenal fan he will appreciate the outrage, and if any good comes of his proposed takeover, then the fans will certainly have had some impact.

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