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Kroenke targets Arsenal title push this term

Kroenke – who owns a 63 per cent share in the Londoners – sanctioned the club-record signing of Mesut Ozil from Real Madrid on transfer deadline day and has insisted that funds are still available for more players.

Wenger had been criticised for not spending before the signing of Ozil, but Kroenke says that the Frenchman always had his full support.

"There would be nothing cooler (than winning the league)," the American told the Daily Mirror. "I’ve never experienced it over here, to win the championship of the Premier League. There would be nothing more thrilling.

"He (Wenger) knows he has our support, there’s no one I feel more strongly about and I think he is doing a great job.

"We have been very supportive, we have never wavered, we are proud of him, proud of the club, the way the club is run and how it holds itself out to the world."

"What a great player (Ozil) is," he added. "Everyone wanted to get him, other teams wanted to get him and to get him here is fantastic.

"We weren’t there to make a statement. It’s absolutely not done for that.

"It was done purely because our manager views him as worth that money, sees him as a player to help us compete, and that meant we were happy to pay it."

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