Arsenal’s Leandro Trossard, foreground left, celebrates with teammates after scoring his side’s second goal during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between Athletic Bilbao and Arsenal at the San Mames stadium in Bilbao, Spain, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Miguel Oses)
Arsenal makes sweeping boardroom changes to inject ‘fresh thinking’ for trophy pursuit
LONDON (AP) 鈥 Arsenal announced the surprise departure of vice chairman Tim Lewis on Friday as part of a major reshuffle of the club鈥檚 board to inject 鈥渇resh thinking and energy鈥 in its pursuit of trophies.
Arsenal’s Leandro Trossard, foreground left, celebrates with teammates after scoring his side’s second goal during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between Athletic Bilbao and Arsenal at the San Mames stadium in Bilbao, Spain, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Miguel Oses)
LONDON (AP) 鈥 Arsenal announced the surprise departure of vice chairman Tim Lewis on Friday as part of a major reshuffle of the club鈥檚 board to inject 鈥渇resh thinking and energy鈥 in its pursuit of trophies.
Arsenal hasn’t won any major silverware since 2020 and spent approximately 250 million pounds ($335 million) in the summer transfer window on new players, including Viktor Gyokeres, Eberechi Eze and Martin Zubimendi, to strengthen the squad.
The 62-year-old Lewis played a key role alongside manager Mikel Arteta and sporting director Andrea Berta in overseeing that .
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Lewis has advised Arsenal鈥檚 ownership, Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, since 2007 and was the vice chair for the past 2 1/2 years, having joined the board in 2020.
In the reshuffle, managing director Richard Garlick has taken up the role of CEO, while KSE representatives Kelly Blaha, Otto Maly, and film producer and director Ben Winston come onto the board as non-executive directors.
Arsenal co-chair Josh Kroenke thanked Lewis for playing 鈥渁 pivotal role鈥 to ensure the team is 鈥渋n a great position to continue to deliver our strategy in our ambition to win major trophies.鈥
鈥淚n keeping with our desire to always move forward, we will strengthen our board with some exciting additions who will bring vast experience to the club across a wide range of professions,” Kroenke said.
鈥淭he group know and love Arsenal, and will bring a different skillset and expertise while injecting fresh thinking and energy to support us all to achieve our ambitions.”
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