Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
I've always been puzzled by the stadium situation. The club owns it, so it's considered a major financial asset. However, the land on which it is built is owned by the council (the club pays a peppercorn rent) and I'm certain there are stipulations which mean the stadium can only ever be used as a sports venue. Therefore, I've never understood why the stadium is considered so valuable. After all, it's not as if it could be sold for housing or any other development.
It can't be used for housing, but that doesn't mean it has no value. If another team wanted to buy the stadium from us how much would we want for it? OK this is a very hypothetical scenario as the Cardiff Blues could almost fit their crowd into Taffs Well's ground, but let's say a rich sheik is financing a UK based NFL franchise, and they want a ground to buy, how much would it be worthwhile for us to sell? quite a lot I'd imagine