It is always better in the long term for a football club to own its own ground than to not own it.
Owning an appreciating asset is financially smart. It's also commercially and organisationally smart, as it makes you master of your own destiny.
Yes - it entails costs and maintenance etc etc. Ad you have to protect it (easily done) in case the club goes bust. But any public funding it attracts goes into YOUR asset.
It's broadly analogous to owning your home or renting someone else's all your life.
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