Yet there are plenty of questions and answers to be had. Where does this leave Red and White holdings? The cute and attractive name that hides the face of Alisher Usmanov. It appears that he has lost the race to own Arsenal FC but he does not have to sell his stake if he doesn’t want to. Yet, if he

So big things are changing at Arsenal yet everything will probably stay exactly the same, at least from the perspective of the Arsenal supporters.

I do not pretend to have any vast knowledge of the business side of the club. To be honest, as long as the club is being looked after correctly then I am content to put my energies into watching the team I support play football. That is what makes me happy not shares or ownership.

That being said I am a little uncomfortable with the ownership of the club being placed out of the hands of ‘Arsenal people’ and into the palms of a businessman. Make of what you want about the Hill-Woods, the Bracewell’s, Danny Fiszman and co, they have the clubs best interest at heart. I suppose with Arsenal in such a strong position financially and the debt close to being a thing of the past we were always going to have interest from outsiders.

As far as outsiders go, you have to say that Stan Kroenke is probably the best ‘sort’ of outsider we could have wished for. The Kronk has been on the board for the last few years and he understands how the club has been run, he has seen first hand that the current model is working. Unlike the Glaziers at Manchester United Kroenke will not saddle the club with debt.

With the stadium debt soon to be history, renegotiation of sponsorship deals and a chance to improve the clubs commercial revenue, especially in Asia and the United States, you can understand why Kroenke would like to gain control or at least more control.

Yet there are plenty of questions and answers to be had. Where does this leave Red and White holdings? The cute and attractive name that hides the face of Alisher Usmanov. It appears that he has lost the race to own Arsenal FC but he does not have to sell his stake if he doesn’t want to. Yet, if he cannot have his cake and eat it then I would put my money on Usmanov eating it. That is just an educated guess.

We also do not know what the long term future has in store for the current board members. I am sure nothing will change for the short term and I suppose only time will tell.

What is unlikely to happen is that billions will be made available for the manager to spend on non scoring strikers. A section of the support will not be happy but personally I will be content if the club can keep its long term strategy in place.

It is a big day for the history and future of the club yet it is more than likely that life will continue as if nothing had happened.

While I am a little wary of this type of change I will hope that this change could actually improve our club and take us forward.

In Arsenal I trust.