You're getting your Asian owners mixed up. Hull City's owner wants to change their name, Tan just changed the colors, which in this country is no big deal, we do it all the time.
Tom Penn is actually the most random of the names, my guess he has an extremely small share and will be more a front office person. People have probably seen him on ESPN during the NBA season as he's an expert on salary cap and the CBA.
The best news out of this is true downtown ambition--LA Live area. If true, the LAG should be sweating because downtown really is the brass ring. A well run team downtown becomes LA1 not 2 . If the team is assembled with ambition , it 's home could be designed for 40 k capacity without too much worry
Owners who have interests in the Barclays Premier League and Major League Baseball? pffffffft. It'll never work.
I wonder if the new brand will have similarities to or notes of the changed Cardiff City logo. If Tan went to through the trouble and backlash of rebranding an English pyramid club, he must really have a hard-on for Dragons. LA Dragons perhaps?
Story also mentions Hollywood Park area, which is in Inglewood, not downtown, and IIRC has some land that Stan Kroenke purchased not all that long ago? Or did that deal not happen? Here's that report, if you don't all remember: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ke-buys-60-acres-of-land-near-hollywood-park/
Well to be fair they also mention Inglewood and the USC site as well. So it's not a guarantee. But it definitely bodes well for their chances with the Guggenheim connection.
Vincent Tan is a minority owner. Henry Nguynen will be the guy in charge. And honestly, Vincent Tan is a much better chubby, minority owner than some other game show host out there.
But is a "contraction and expansion" (of that same "LA2 franchise") in the form of a hiatus from playing league games (of maybe 2 years or so, apparently). And there will "always" be an ownership group in place. They'll call it whatever they want to call it for their business.
2017 seems ambitious. That's Atlanta's start date, and they are way ahead. And that means every off-field hire has to be in place in 2016 for LA2. Not to mention the stadium situation (although I guess the Dodgers connection helps). Essentially, they've got 15-18 months to make those hires. Gotta love the chutzpah, though.
According to Wahl the new team will be considered an expansion franchise and not a continuation of Chivas USA. So in that regard it is definitely a contraction and expansion. This isn't a Quakes situation where the existing franchise was put on hold for 2 years to be brought back with all of its history and identity in tact. It seems Chivas is being Miami'ed. Everything involving Chivas ends and LA2 begins anew.
Yup. It is a new ownership group and a new team brand/name/history. But they still just bought that same LA2 franchise from MLS and will start to operate it as they see fit at some (soon?) future date. I still consider Miami1 to be on hiatus, fwiw.
Peter Guber involved is a very strong thing. That guy knows well run sports franchises from the Warriors, Dodgers, and his minor league baseball properties. And he can certainly knows a lot of Hollywood star power types.
Well they'll never be back so the Fusion's hiatus will last to infinity and beyond I guess regardless of how you feel about it... Just as Chivas USA's "hiatus" will be permanent (ie: they're being contracted just like the Fusion were). That said, in this case it's for the best. The Chivas experiment was an ugly reminder of a dark time in the league's history that they seem very keen to move beyond.
Brands/team-names/ownership-groups get contracted. Location-based/city-specific MLS franchises go on hiatus (or in SJ's initial case, get relocated to a different/bigger market).
Thats a pretty solid ownership group. I bet they play in dodgers stadium for how many ever years it takes to build a stadium ala NYCFC.
And you base that on? When a franchise is contracted it's not just the brand that is contracted, it's the franchise as well unless the league specifically denotes otherwise like they did in San Jose. A new franchise can be granted for a territory, like Beckham is poised to someday be granted in Miami, but it's a new franchise as well as whatever new brand he concocts. None of which matters here. The current Chivas franchise along with the Chivas identity is being contracted and a new expansion franchise with it's new identity is being formed. MLS is specifically stating that behind the scenes so that's what's happening.