"Tim Leiweke, the influential president of the Anschutz Entertainment
Group, which counts five MLS teams, including the Galaxy, among its
holdings, said in an interview with The Times in November that he
believed Donovan's place was in MLS.

"Landon Donovan's the best player in MLS," Leiweke said. "Landon
Donovan's the best player in the United States Soccer Federation's
entire system. And Landon Donovan, God bless him, loves Major League
Soccer.

"Landon has an issue he has to resolve in Germany one way or another.
He has to resolve it once and for all. We knew this was coming for a
while, and the league's going to have to work this out."

The message was clear: AEG wanted MLS to do whatever was necessary to
help Donovan sever ties with Germany and return America's star to
America's league."

If this all turns out to be true, and not just rumor, then it would
seem, with the timing, that AEG managed to get Califf to the
Earthquakes just so SJ would not have any rights to Donovan. If so ,
would this be because LD wanted to go to LA, or because AEG wanted LD
in LA?