Arsenal stan kroenke spurs Joe Lewis

NICKNAMED Silent Stan, the

73-year-old American billionaire is heavily involved in sport as owner of Kroenke Sports and Entertainment.

He has been involved with the Gunners since 2007 and took complete control three years ago. Kroenke also owns elite-level

American teams

LA Rams (American

Football), the

Denver Nuggets

(basketball),

Colorado Avalanche

(ice hockey) and the Colorado

Rapids (football).

His wife Ann

Walton is heir to the vast Walmart supermarket fortune. Despite his involvement in sports watched by millions Kroenke got his nickname because he prefers to avoid the spotlight.

He is estimated to be worth £7billion. In 2015, he angered fans by moving his Rams team from St Louis, where it had been based since 1994, to California.

In 2016, he bought a £520m, 520,000acre ranch in Texas, helping make him one of the top 10 landowners in the US.

SUCCESS Lewis and chairman Daniel Levy

AN art lover as well as a football fan, Lewis has a £4billion fortune, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.

The Londoner entered the family catering business at 15 but in the 1980s moved into currency trading.

Lewis, 84, is the major investor in Tavistock Group which owns more than 200 companies in 15 countries. It formerly owned stakes in Scottish club Rangers and Slavia

Prague in the Czech Republic.

Lewis lives in the

Bahamas as a tax exile.

He is reported to have a collection of artworks worth an estimated

£700million which includes works by Picasso, Matisse, Lucian Freud and Henry Moore. He bought Bacon’s Triptych 1974–1977 in 2008 for £26.3m.

Lewis is also the largest shareholder in pub group Mitchells & Butlers. Other investments include luxury resorts, hotels and an Australian agriculture firm. He owns Aviva, a luxury yacht.