The plan is to secure this facility, to decommodify it and bring it away from the clutches of outsiders who pocket the rent from the club. So far so good.
The reason for doing this would be that whatever rent then paid by the club owners would be made available to these same club owners for capital projects.
a) It's hard to know what sort of capital projects could be financed in the period these peniless owners will be still around for that'd take only a few million to realise.
b ) the owners would go along with this plan on the basis that it'd be able to allow them to plan forward for an annexe type facility they fcuked up on already using commercial partners. That's ok, but the revenue generation from that always looked iffy and such a project would merely allow this moribund board of directors the ability to point to it and portray themselves as still being full of vitality and still a necessary part of our future...which they most definitely are not.
c) practically, the lenght of time this Trust idea would take to get off the ground would likely see a change off the pitch anyway, because though people say they support an idea they're less willing to put their money where there mouth is. Share Liverpool were full of wild projections and fell way short of getting the type of money required...and that was for a shatre of ownership in the club, not just securing a facility.
d) I really dont believe it's the job of fans to bale out tvvats who screw up in the boardroom. It's a noble idea and the Trust members are no doubt good fellers with honourable intent. But this is just a way of subsidising failure, IMO...encouraging the men who got us into the mess to carry on as per usual with their useless-ass ways - a free pass given to them by people with a fraction of any one of their enormous resources of wealth.
