I find it interesting that Dragon has said that the club is for sale. I think the truth is it has always been for sale, we are owned by an investment company after all! But I would imagine that the asking price is one that no one is currently willing to meet, so we continue to build and build.
This club will be at its most valuable when the stadium is built, we have the naming rights sorted, and we are established as a champions league team. If we know anything about Levy's negotiating ability, he will be well aware of this as well and so will be pricing as if we were that.
Actually mate (and not having a go at you), the club is not for sale .. and may never have been, does that mean that if someone came along and offered 2B for it, Levy/Lewis/ENIC would not have to consider the offer? = no
However
- The club has been owned by ENIC now for over 14 years, the idea of this quick buck turnover has been proven wrong 5 or 6 years ago
- The best time for selling the club would have been after qualifying for CL with Bale as the star name (or the year of the CL run itself)
Additionally
- The entire scale and nature of the WHL redevelopment makes no sense if the idea was to make a sale
- Every dollar spent would cut into profits, yet there is absolutely no indication or even area where you can say the club is cutting corners. Logical view would have been a 48/50K increase for 150 odd million, then sell, not 450M with complete area redevelopment.
- Delisting the company in hindsight was also a way for the club to make long term decisions, more control vs. more profitability
And not ITK, but I have talked to people involved, and there is absolutely no indication from people who work for/with the club on a daily basis that Levy has any view to selling, as a matter of fact, they talk about how Levy continues to monitor other stadiums (including non football ones) to make sure WHL has the best of everything (had a conversation on the Screens vs. the ones in new NFL stadiums), see point above.
Add in the fact that he brings his son to every game, not sure how people can't see we have a chairman that is heavily vested in our club