Jack Wilshere Back In Action Again?

Arsenal’s young midfielder Jack Wilshere, who missed the entire season of 2011-2012, is now ready to step up his rehabilitation procedure and try to get back in action before the new league season starts in August.

The English international has had a tough year as he saw Arsenal’s entire league campaign from the stands. He suffered an ankle injury during Arsenal’s pre-season friendly match against MLS outfit New York Red Bulls. Though he was initially thought to just be out for a few weeks, it was worse than previously imagined and the 20-year old underwent a surgery which ruled him out till the New Year. On his road to recovery in January, he suffered pain on his same ankle during training and had to be withdrawn immediately. Scans showed that the playmaker would require yet another surgery. This dashed the youngster’s hopes of representing England in the recently concluded Euro 2012 and also for making it into Great Britian’s Olympics squad. Wilshere has been training in the gym all this while, and is reportedly ready to take it up a notch and try and make it to Arsenal’s squad for the season opener against Sunderland at the Emirates Stadium. Will we see this exciting midfielder in Arsenal’s starting 11 on August 18th?

Ten things to know about the new arsenal fc owner Stan Kroenke

Find out how much the new Emirates owner is worth and how he made his fortune.

With help from our friends at the Guardian we have brought you the story of the new Arsenal majority shareholder, Stan Kroenke:

Born in Columbia, Missouri in 1947, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Missouri.

Married to Ann Walton, part of the family which owns the Wal-Mart chain of shops.

Last year Kroenke became the majority owner of the St Louis Rams NFL franchise. Through his company Kroenke Sports Enterprises (KSE) he also owns the Colorado Rapids Major League Soccer team, the Colorado Avalanche NHL side and the NBA basketball team the Denver Nuggets.

Kroenke’s worth is quoted at $2.9bn (around £1.77bn) in the 2010 Forbes List.

He is a somewhat reclusive man who stays out of the limelight. He his popularly known as “Silent Stan” because he almost never gives interviews to the press. He rarely interferes in his teams’ day-to-day operations.

Made his substantial fortune mainly through real estate and constructing shopping centres, retail, business and residential developments.

KSE owns the Pepsi Center, which is home to the Avalanche and the Nuggets and is also an entertainment venue staging music concerts.

KSE opened Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in April 2007 as the home of the Rapids. As well as an 18,000-capacity venue for field sports which also seats 27,000 for concerts, the complex also includes 24 playing fields for youth and adult sports and 200 acres for retail development and wildlife conservation areas.

Arsenal already had a technical link-up with Kroenke’s Colorado Rapids when in April 2007 Granada Ventures, a subsidiary of ITV plc, had sold their 9.9% stake in Arsenal Holdings plc to Kroenke’s KSE UK inc.<

Kroenke increased his shareholding in Arsenal to 62.89% by purchasing the stakes of Danny Fiszman and Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith, and agreed to make an offer for the rest of the club at £11,500 per share, valuing the club at £900million including debt.