Quote Originally Posted by pass_and_move View Post
As a say Arby, a dunt know how much oakwell and it's surrounding land is worth. It could be lucrative for all we know. That's what I found confusing in 2002 when the club went into administration. Surely we could've raised a couple o million by selling part of the surrounding land to a developer?
Yes you're right Pass, we don't know anything. But I still believe they bought Barnsley for football reasons and that any sale of land/development opportunity is secondary (albeit possibly a lucrative secondary) to the the primary football reason. Football must be their primary driver because they've also bought about half a dozen European clubs and it doesn't appear they've bought them for land development opportunities.