Another Club Purchased by our Owners

Are you allowed to say "black and white" these days?

 

Just strange they'd go to the lengths of having an option in the contracts and then fail to execute.

 

meanwhile if we were languishing in mid table, or DK wasn't as good as expected, then we'd not want to take up the option to buy

 

I don't see that as the same comparator. Oakwell and grounds are fixed and the option must surely have been written up as an agreed figure.

It felt strange for a number of reasons, that initially they wanted to allude to a situation like Nice (then we found out that had nothing to do with the ground and that the training facilities commenced well before they arrived), but then it all went quiet and nobody really knew if they'd executed the option or not. And if not why not. Then a while later (Feb 2019 rings a bell), Conway did a media piece I think to RS perhaps which suggested they still wanted the ground but the council were being evasive, nothing to do with the Cryne share. The council then suggested no meetings had taken place at all. Furthermore, they wanted a piece of the town centre development action. Then nothing at all until the Crynes sued. Yet the Crynes still want to sell, ConLee seemingly still want to buy.

But anyway, it is what it is. My hope is the council don't sell and they come to an agreement that allows future development. but I could see that being messy and unattractive. But I can also see the risk of these speculators having full control of a large parcel of land at a pretty nominal rate, even more so given they explored ground sharing. There are a couple of examples of clubs being taken from their homes by owners and I really would hate for that to happen with BFC and Oakwell.