Reports emerged on Monday that Aliko Dangote was very interested in purchasing Arsenal.

A 58-year-old business man from Nigeria, Dangote is said to be worth just over £10bn and would certainly be able to afford Arsenal if he was to find Silent Stan amenable to a sale. Which he won’t. There’s even less chance of there being a change in ownership than there is a change of manager, so what’s all the fuss?

Well, there really isn’t a lot of other stuff to talk about, really, would be my guess.

Gaining a business degree from the Al-Azhar University in Egypt, Dangote, who was already blessed by being born into a business family, set up his own in 1978, trading rice, sugar and cement. From there he moved into manufacturing and now his company is valued at more than $24bn, or, to put it a way that you and I can understand, the largest company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Attempting to buy a stake in the club in 2010, Dangote is now worth eight times more than he was when he first tried to get his hands on the club and is still very much dreaming of buying Arsenal.

“I still hope, one day at the right price, that I’ll buy the team,” he told Bloomberg.

“I might buy it, not at a ridiculous price but a price that the owners won’t want to resist,” he continued. “I know my strategy.”

“We have $16 billion-worth of investments in the next few years.

“Right now I want to take my own business to a certain level. Once I finish on that trajectory, then maybe [an offer will follow.]”

Worth more than both Kroenke and Alisher Usmanov, Dangote is also a Gooner.