The Arsenal board really rolled out the red carpet for Stan Kroenke when he came over last year.
Lunch in the Diamond Club, opened up the whole property portfolio to him, took him to St Albans to see the training ground, begged him to join the board and sign the lockdown agreement.
They are terrified of Usmanov.
That was why they courted Stan.
And now he is coming on board and Nick Harris has the full story in The Independent.
Inevitably, the Highbury Square development has been affected by the credit crunch and the collapse of property prices.