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FA Considering Selling Wembley

Good news for English football. I don't think it makes much difference to the club as they are clearly working with the NFL owners, although it might remove some uncertainty.

I wonder if the FA bosses who thought it was a good idea will be forced out.
 
Shahid Khan was always just using the Wembley purchase threat to leverage improvements for Bank Field from the local council or what they are called in Florida.
 
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Great news, the FA and english sports/media need to approach grassroots football in a totally different way. The FA need to ask themselves what was the plan had this offer not been on the table and the option to sell Wembley was not even viable, if it was to carry on as normal it shows just how bad they are.
 
Grays_1890 said:
Great news, the FA and english sports/media need to approach grassroots football in a totally different way. The FA need to ask themselves what was the plan had this offer not been on the table and the option to sell Wembley was not even viable, if it was to carry on as normal it shows just how bad they are.
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They have no clue its a load of corrupt dinosaurs on the rob
 
StephenH said:
Shahid Khan was always just using the Wembley purchase threat to leverage improvements for Bank Field from the local council or what they are called in Florida.
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Don't think so. That stadium - now TIAA Bank Field - was given a decent re-furbishing last year, with new premium suites and seats and even features an area for fans to bring their dogs, replete with a dog bone-shaped pool to splash in. Move to London? Pahhh!
 
greatwhitenorf said:
Don't think so. That stadium - now TIAA Bank Field - was given a decent re-furbishing last year, with new premium suites and seats and even features an area for fans to bring their dogs, replete with a dog bone-shaped pool to splash in. Move to London? Pahhh!
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He wanted to expand around the ground the article said. He was refused and he threw his toys out of the pram and threatened them with Wembley the article purported.
 
He's just playing the game, then. It's not a big market for the NFL - think Buffalo, but better weather. But the area has some prospects for the future as many Florida businesses look to relocate from more hurricane-prone areas. But he has no control of how or when that will happen, so he's just trying to gee things up.

Could also be that the NFL owners don't want him taking Wembley as it will create conflicts they don't need right now as Spurs stadium comes on line. But he must have looked at it as a great chance to have ownership of a team and a stadium in London. Don't think the optics of this arrangement work for him in London.

Spurs and the NFL have worked long and hard together to prepare this venue as the perfect showcase for both sports. Khan taking Wembley would have created some doubt about that moving forward according to whatever plans they have. It's likely that if the NFL did move a team into London full time - and they are talking confidently about 2022 - then one of the principals with Spurs, either Lewis or Levy for now, would have to acquire a 30% share of that team's ownership to conform to NFL requirements that a principal team owner also control the stadium.

And by bidding for Wembley, Khan has served to antagonize a segment of the English sporting public about turning football's ancestral home into an NFL-first ground. The NFL have worked too long to establish a benevolent presence on the English sports landscape. Taking ownership of Wembley might well have undermined some of the goodwill they've created for themselves. You don't want to take on that fight and possibly lose potential customers.
 
I think Khan would like to be the first NFL franchise in London, but I’m not sure that the powers that be in NFL in the US want it to be his team Jacksonville.... I think that NWHL is the preferred NFL destination’ and it won’t be Khan’s Jaguars playing there. Khan trying to buy Wembley was Machiavellian manoeuvring to gain position within the NFL club owners’ cabal.
 
greatwhitenorf said:
He's just playing the game, then. It's not a big market for the NFL - think Buffalo, but better weather. But the area has some prospects for the future as many Florida businesses look to relocate from more hurricane-prone areas. But he has no control of how or when that will happen, so he's just trying to gee things up.

Could also be that the NFL owners don't want him taking Wembley as it will create conflicts they don't need right now as Spurs stadium comes on line. But he must have looked at it as a great chance to have ownership of a team and a stadium in London. Don't think the optics of this arrangement work for him in London.

Spurs and the NFL have worked long and hard together to prepare this venue as the perfect showcase for both sports. Khan taking Wembley would have created some doubt about that moving forward according to whatever plans they have. It's likely that if the NFL did move a team into London full time - and they are talking confidently about 2022 - then one of the principals with Spurs, either Lewis or Levy for now, would have to acquire a 30% share of that team's ownership to conform to NFL requirements that a principal team owner also control the stadium.

And by bidding for Wembley, Khan has served to antagonize a segment of the English sporting public about turning football's ancestral home into an NFL-first ground. The NFL have worked too long to establish a benevolent presence on the English sports landscape. Taking ownership of Wembley might well have undermined some of the goodwill they've created for themselves. You don't want to take on that fight and possibly lose potential customers.
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inkpenspur said:
I think Khan would like to be the first NFL franchise in London, but I’m not sure that the powers that be in NFL in the US want it to be his team Jacksonville.... I think that NWHL is the preferred NFL destination’ and it won’t be Khan’s Jaguars playing there. Khan trying to buy Wembley was Machiavellian manoeuvring to gain position within the NFL club owners’ cabal.
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These two posts sum it up nicely. It was a good gambit by Khan. If he had gained more support from other NFL owners and/or got a more favourable reaction here it could have been a brilliant plan. It didn't work out, but he saw an opportunity.

Now will anyone at the FA have twigged that Wembley is underutilized and could generate more money. Hopefully one of them is bright enough to notice the extra revenues from our use and the Joshua fight and realise that using it more effectively is better than selling it off.
 
jts1882 said:
Now will anyone at the FA have twigged that Wembley is underutilized and could generate more money. Hopefully one of them is bright enough to notice the extra revenues from our use and the Joshua fight and realise that using it more effectively is better than selling it off.
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They could have 4 years of hire from Chelsea coming up, that would be a few quid
 
I think we are going to see a change in stadium use. You have these great big buildings, now with luxury facilities, and they are only used every couple of weeks. Our new stadium will be setting a new standard. The owners at Liverpool have woken up to the value of Anfield as a venue and Wembley has permission for a lot more big events.
 
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