Arsenal co-owner Josh Kroenke has urged fans to believe in the process and claimed their results in North America speak for themselves.
The Gunners have now gone almost 20 years without winning the Premier League, with Mikel Arteta’s current crop of stars well off the likes of Manchester City and Liverpool.
But in a rare media appearance, Kroenke has stated that the future is bright at the Emirates, having built the youngest squad in the top flight.
Arsenal made a point to target youthful new recruits in the summer, signing six players aged 23 or under, with Arteta’s side on the verge of returning to the Champions League.
But in comparison to the rest of KSE’s portfolio of teams, Arsenal are lagging behind - particularly after watching the Los Angeles Rams win the Super Bowl on Sunday.
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The Rams lifted NFL’s biggest prize over the weekend, beating the Cincinnati Bengals at their own SoFI Stadium.
In basketball, the Kroenke’s have built a championship contender in the Denver Nuggets, whilst Colorado Avalanche are the current favourites to lift the Stanley Cup in the NHL.
And Kroenke, who has taken an active role in north London in recent years, believes that their methods are vindicated by the success they are enjoying in other sports.
“We’re excited to be where we are in the Premier League, we have a great young squad, great young manager and we’ve got a bright future,” Kroenke said on BlueWire’s Road Trippin’ Podcast.
“Now that we have 100 per cent of the club - we’ve had it only since 2018 - we’re laying the foundations of a really bright future.
“I think if any of the Arsenal fanbase wants to look at our teams here in North America, which surprisingly they don’t do very often.
“It’s not that they don’t care, they are very curious about our operations and I want to say to them and sit down and explain how we look at things, whether it’s a person in the media or the fan that happens to grab me in the hotel.
“And what I say is that we’re really proud - over here we draft and develop - at Arsenal we have an amazing academy, where these kids work their way up. We have some amazing academy products playing for us right now, starting to play really meaningful minutes.
He continued: “We have several other young kids just starting to enter late teens and early twenties who are starting to make some noise at the first-team level and we have a couple of guys in their mid-20s who we have recruited and they’ve matured with us for the last few years and are starting to lead the leadership charge behind the scenes.
“And so you see the foundation of the culture that I talked about and I think you see it starting to manifest itself on the pitch.
“I’m not sure where we are right now, I think we’re sitting in fifth or sixth in the league, we need to be higher, our goals are to be higher, but to be there with the youngest squad in the Premier League, I think is something every Arsenal fan should get behind.”
