Lease it to who? Everton would have gone bust in this scenario. The new Everton Co. could stay at Goodison without assurances that moving to a new stadium would make any commercial sense -e.g. naming rights go to the club and not the stadium owner, sales of food and beverages during games and so on, fixed long term rent so it doesn't just go through the roof.
It's all wishy-washy so I don't believe anyone would use it as a guarantee.
Sorry I mean we will rent it.