Not allowed to be sold as per conditions of leasehold.
Stadium must be owned by Everton FC.
If theres a way, it
Will be found.
There'll be a loop hole and / or slight of hand bit of 'legal' jiggery-pokery maybe along these lines or similar...
In 1998,
Vickers plc decided to sell Rolls-Royce Motors. The leading contender seemed to be
BMW, who already supplied
internal combustion engines and other components for Rolls-Royce and
Bentley cars. Their final offer of
£340m was outbid by
Volkswagen Group, who offered £430m.
As part of the deal, Volkswagen Group acquired the historic
Crewe factory, plus the rights to the "
Spirit of Ecstasy"
mascot and the shape of the radiator grille. However, the Rolls-Royce brand name and logo were controlled by aero-engine maker
Rolls-Royce plc, and not Rolls-Royce Motors. The aero-engine maker decided to license the Rolls-Royce name and logo to BMW and not to Volkswagen, largely because the aero-engine maker had recently shared joint business ventures with BMW. BMW paid £40m to license the Rolls-Royce name and "RR" logo, a deal that many commentators thought was a bargain for possibly the most valuable property in the deal. Volkswagen Group had the rights to the mascot and grille, but lacked rights to the Rolls-Royce name in order to build the cars; likewise, BMW had the name, but lacked rights to the grille and mascot.
The situation was tilted in BMW's favour, as they could withdraw their engine supply with just 12 months notice, which was insufficient time for VW to re-engineer the Rolls-Royce cars to use VW's own engines. Volkswagen claimed that it only really wanted Bentley anyway, as it was the higher volume brand, with Bentley models out-selling the equivalent Rolls-Royce by around two to one