Stan Kroenke optimistic to buying Los Angeles Dodgers – MLB News
The National Football League franchise St. Louis Rams’ current owner Stan Kroenke is optimistic to buy the Major League Baseball team in Southern California, who is facing bankruptcy issues, the Los Angeles Dodgers.
It has been reported that the NFL team owner is very close to initiate potential talks with the Dodgers' management after successfully coming out with the bidding process. Kroenke is already ahead in the bidding process that had begun last month. Kroenke, who is lately busy in restructuring his team in St. Louis, knows this potential purchase as it will eventually help his business grow further.
Though many other business giants are after this sale but it seems that Kroenke has a better chance here to outdo every other bidder having extraordinary skills of keeping a sport franchise profitable. He has vast experience running the affairs of an NFL franchise for many years now.
Earlier when some reporters asked him about this development, he showed great contentment and stated as he is also happy as how the process has been an unfolding opportunity for him but still not sure whether he gets this precarious franchise or not. Kroenke said on Tuesday, "We'll see how that process sorts itself out.”
Recently, the Dodgers said in a prepared statement, “The preliminary round of bidding has underscored the robust nature of the sales process, the significant purchase opportunity which the Dodgers represent, and the enormous value that the sale of the Dodgers ... will generate," Later, Greg Aiello, who is a NFL senior vice president of communications, said via email that, “We are going to refrain from speculation on purely hypothetical situations."
Looking at the Dodgers statement and comparing it with the NFL vice president’s comments, the general idea is still very oblivious to general public. The Dodgers' management, who thinks that it is important to decide over the potential ownership of the team before the 2012 season starts, but on the other hand, this bidding along with another round of bidding, somehow creating many problems that still no-one knows as who is coming and on what price. The club wants around $1 billion but ground realities are that it will slow the process further if the management does not react rationally.
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