Arsenal Owner Stan Kroenke to Bid for LA Dodgers

Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke is reported to have made a bid for MLB team Los Angeles Dodgers, according to the LA Times.

Kroenke who is the owner Kroenke Sports Enterprises is understood to be one of 12 groups interested in purchasing the baseball team. Others include former LA Lakers basketball star Magic Johnson.

Kroneke already owns franchises in all other major American sports, namely the NFL’s St Louis Rams and a contingent of Colorrado based teams including the NBA’s Denver Nuggets, the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche, and Major League Soccer’s Colorado Rapids.

The world famous Dodgers are facing financial meltdown and were put under bankruptcy protection last summer by outgoing owner Frank McCourt, who will later this year pay his former wife Jamie an £85m ($132.5m) divorce settlement.

The Boston native was in 2002 beaten to the purchase of the Red Sox by John W. Henry, now owner of Liverpool.

Former Dodgers manager Joe Torre, one-time owner Peter O’Malley and former agent Dennis Gilbert are also on the shortlist to buy the well known franchise.