The founder of Spotify says he made an offer to buy Arsenal Daniel Ek, the CEO of Spotify, revealed on Saturday that he had made an offer this week to buy Arsenal, the English Premier League football team, but that the club’s US owners had refused. Ek, the multimillion-dollar creator of the music reproduction service, made it public a month later with an interest in buying a club in north London, where resentment among fans against the owners has been boiling for years. In an image shared on his Twitter account, Ek wrote that Stan Kroenke had made an offer for the club of millionaire sports magnates in the US in response to “incorrect reports” he had not made an offer.