Stan Kroenke bought the St. Louis Rams in 2010 for a price of $750 million. The next year, Kroenke bought Arsenal F.C. for $1.1 billion. In the last decade, Kroenke’s investment of nearly $2 billion into those two franchises has now increased in valuation to $6.8 billion and Kroenke’s NFL team has passed and lapped his soccer team in total value.
According to Forbes, the LA Rams are now worth $4 billion and are tied with Manchester City as the 13th-most valuable franchise in professional sports. The Rams have seen a 176% increase in value over the last five years alone, which is by far a greater increase than any other team in Forbes’ top-40 of the list and the only team in the top-50 that surpassed that is Paris Saint-Germain, another soccer team, at 207%.