Arsenal legend Ian Wright has torn into the club's majority owner Stan Kroenke following his bid to take sole control at the Emirates.

The American has had his £1.8billion bid to buyout fellow shareholder Alisher Usmanov accepted, causing uproar from Arsenal fans and stakeholders alike.

None more so than Wright, who scored 122 goals in 214 games during his time at the club.

Having first taken to Twitter on Tuesday, the former striker wrote in his Sun: “I can sum up the prospect of Stan Kroenke becoming the sole owner of Arsenal in two words — absolutely disastrous.

“And if, as seems highly likely, that does become the case, I genuinely fear the days of seeing the Gunners challenging for top honours on a regular basis may well have come and gone.

“This is a guy who has remained in the background pretty much throughout his entire association with Arsenal.

“A man who, as far as I can see it, hasn’t exactly been tearing up trees trying to do what’s best for the club.

“If anything, it’s a case of doing what’s best for himself and not really anyone else.”

He continued: “The genuine worry — and it’s a very, very real worry — is that now, more than ever before, it will be about getting money THROUGH Arsenal, not FOR them.

“The club is in my heart, it really is, and I would have no problem looking Kroenke in the eye and telling him straight, ‘You don’t care’.

“I just hate what’s happening. It tears me apart, because right now we are nowhere near challenging for the top honours in football.

“We’re left hoping and praying that new manager Unai Emery’s coaching ability will get us through, or I really do fear for us. And to put so much onus on a man who is still getting to know everyone’s name, let alone what they can do, has to be a worry.”