The binman chronicles
Player Valuation: £80m
I think what people are saying is that the club currently is valued nowhere near the cost of the stadium and the owner's total investment to date. If we are relegated, this already substantial gap widens massively..... so if he wants out, there is no prospect of the owner ever recouping that investment as things stand..... whereas, if his pal was still getting naming rights and if finance had been secured he could've got his cash back.
This could then mean that the stadium and club get split into separate saleable entities. Thus introducing the THEORETICAL POSSIBILITY that he could sell the stadium to LFC, if that was more lucrative for him. Reversing the historic process that took place in 1892.
Of course, LFC have spent quite a bit on Anfield and BMD is nowhere near big enough for them, but if the new stadium isn't owned by the club, we will always be beholden to the wishes of a third party who only have one other potential customer for their new facility.
We stay at GP or transfer blue seats to Anfield, offered as a sweetner...... haha.
All bonkers I know, but so is the whole financial model of this stadium the way things are looking.
I understand that currently our worth and what he has invested currently don't meet and would get worse in the championship. That makes it even less likely he would try and sell the stadium separately imho, a buyer isn't going to pay the full total of the build as without owning the club that is devalued. The club without a stadium would be devalued. In this case he may as well take a 500-600 million offer for the whole club and lose the 400m(?) that way rather than split it out and do the same. As I said unless we are stupid enough to sign a cast iron contract that we'd stay for xx number of years regardless of rising costs (which i don't know how we could possibly agree to at the moment), it wouldn't give the buyer any security that they aren't left with a white elephant. If it falls through as a stadium they would have to return the land back to a dock, it's not like they own a prime piece of real estate. That leaves them with trying to flog it to the RS and if that works we would get a stadium for one hundred million or less as that would be the highest offer they could hope to receive for Anfield. So least we have a plan B if that ever did occur.
If Moshiri is brassic, can't find an investor to share the risk and wants out he will sell quickly once the stadium is built. If the top man says don't worry about the cash at the moment then they'll keep us as asset, over the next 3 or so years we'll sort out our wage bill, hopefully be still in the Premier League or have come back up and that one billion price may be obtainable.