West Ham to buy London Stadium? Good or bad for taxpayers?

[Ihavenojob]

Reading a rumour that Amanda Staveley is after buying a chunk of West Ham, and then buying their Godforsaken soulless ground-The London Stadium, for £50million. Sodin Kahnt is apparently up for it. As it stands, we pay £2.2m in rent (after relegation) so it could be good business for the club, as well as allowing more matches to be played there, the women's team don't play there as there is a limit on the number of matches allowed to be played. As it stands I believe it cost taxpayers to have West Ham playing there, and £50million in readies should be better for the taxpayer rather than paying out annually, and to West Ham the price is just the sale of one decent player, so who would be the winner IF it did get sold?

 

[blup]

She seems to be very wealthy, maybe the site has housing potential

 

[Elsa TLC]

Buy it

 

[Brigadier]

It cost the taxpayer almost £800 million to build originally then convert for WHU.

So flogging it to a wealthy private person or company for a fraction of that amount sounds about right...........

She'd still be getting a bargain if she paid half a billion for it, so the asking price should start there, wouldn't you reckon?

 

[Old Salt]

Away end is dire according to my grandson who visited his first “premiership ground” last week.

 

[Elsa TLC]

Away end is dire according to my grandson who visited his first “premiership ground” last week.

Is he a Portsmouth fan?