It is not hard to see why Kroenke and Usmanov would love to own Arsenal.
That suggests Kroenke's game plan is to be a business partner rather than an investor.
Bose says the Arsenal board are confident that Kroenke will not sell to Usmanov.
Kroenke firmly believes the club is heading in the right direction under the current set-up.
Europe is leading the way in that respect and that might explain Mr Kroenke's interest in Arsenal.
If Kroenke were to buy the shares, he would become the club's majority shareholder with a 27.9% stake.
Kroenke already owns the Colorado Rapids, the Denver Nuggets and the Colorado Avalanche sports teams in his native Colorado.
The company also made Walton relatives Ann Walton Kroenke (No. 79) and Nancy Walton Laurie (No. 100) multi-billionaires.
Studies have shown that "difficult" patients tend to have nebulous, hard-to-pin-down symptoms like headache, dizziness, and fatigue, notes Kurt Kroenke, M.
Usmanov, who paid a rich 3.3 times revenue for his stake in Arsenal, seems more likely than Kroenke to pursue this course.
But the three-way marriage between Kroenke, Usmanov and Hill-Wood can't last forever.
Stanley Kroenke and Russian Alisher Usmanov want to carry off the spoils.
Since April 2007 Kroenke, billionaire shopping mall developer and owner of Denver's professional basketball (Nuggets) and hockey (Avalanche) teams, has built up a 13% stake.
Kroenke has made his fortune from property and building shopping malls.
At the Gunners annual general meeting at the Emirates Stadium on October 22 Kroenke was asked what his intentions were for the north London club, but declined to comment.
No surprise, he adds, that Stanley Kroenke, who owns hockey's Colorado Avalanche and the Denver Nuggets of the NBA, has started his own regional sports channel, which will broadcast his two teams.
Kroenke now holds 18, 649 ordinary shares, which is 29.9 percent of the club but just below the 30 percent holding which would trigger a compulsory takeover bid for the north London team.
Kroenke has since acquired a 12.2% stake in Arsenal, while Dein has sold his 14.5% share to Usmanov, whose Red and White Holdings Limited company has built up their holding to 23%.
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Kroenke, who is already Arsenal's biggest shareholder, has upped his holding to 29.6 per cent, franctionally under the 29.9 per cent figure where he would be required to launch a takeover under British law.
Despite the sharp appreciation in the value of Arsenal over the past few years, Kroenke and Usmanov, neither of whom would speak with FORBES, know the Gunners still have a lot of unrealized financial firepower.
"It's better to bring it up earlier than right at the end of the encounter, as the doctor is getting up to leave the room, because that's frustrating for both patient and doctor, " says Kroenke.
Kroenke, nicknamed Silent Stan by the fans, has been widely criticized for his lack of public involvement with the club and a perceived unwillingness to spend on big-name players since taking control during the spring of 2011.
Set in countless acres of Kroenke-owned land sits an 18, 000 all-seater stadium with modern clean lines and surrounded by 20 floodlit all-weather training pitches to cope with the huge number of children playing football in the state.
Kroenke Sports Enterprises and its U.S. football team, the Colorado Rapids, have a marketing alliance with Arsenal to promote the Gunners in the U.S., including via KSE's TV sports network, and make Arsenal's highly regarded player development expertise available to the Rapids.
The emergence of Usmanov, who spent six years in jail in the Soviet Union during the 1980s for fraud and unjust enrichment, has warmed Kroenke's relationship with the Arsenal board, though not to the point where Kroenke has joined the lockout agreement.
But while the Gunners have had a strong start to the season, Kroenke, who owns four U.S. sports teams, hasn't matched the spending sprees of the top Spanish clubs or those of the Russian oligarchs and sheikhs who own several of Europe's other top teams.
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