Americans to buy Swansea football club

American strategy: Swansea players warming up before the game at the Liberty Stadium. American investors plan to wring profits with marketing tactics that have proved effective for their US-based clubs. – Reuters

NEW YORK: There’s about to be another American owner in the English Premier League.

Jason Levien, part owner of Major League Soccer’s DC United, and Steve Kaplan, the Oaktree Capital Management co-founder who holds a stake in the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies, lead a group that is close to taking a controlling interest in Swansea City, according to a statement Saturday from the Welsh soccer club.