Who Moved The Goalposts?Hound all our debts are to the owner
True. I've been wracking my brain to think of a valid reason why the owners would have a reason for running the club into the ground and out of existence. Build a nice country hotel on Bearwood? Convert all the land in and around the stadium into a state-of-the-art shopping mall (this is their forte, after all)? Everything is a possibility I suppose but the numbers don't add up, unless the Dais can somehow write off all their losses against one of their better performing businesses and start any new project afresh.
Even making huge allowances for their lack of team-owning acumen (including dodgy advisors and super-agents), I just can't see why they've let it get this bad.
If that was your aim they would have just bought the club and immediately announced that matches were going to be relocating somewhere else? There have been a lot of scummy owners who have been pretty open that they only bought their club to exploit it. Why would you lose hundreds of millions just to provide a bit of an excuse for turning the stadium into a property opportunity?