Any actual evidence that Hilton tried and failed to get £3.5 million?
IF you were right, then we already know Swann valued the land at £5.2 million in around November 2019 (see May 2021 Shareholder and Fans Update), and property prices have gone up quite a lot since then. You’ve just provided a solid reason to suggest Swann doesn’t actually want to sell…and answered Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg’s question.
At least some of Hilton’s details clearly aren’t made up because we can see them for ourselves.
Swann valued it at £3.5 million, which was already inflated from what independent evaluators told potential buyers at the time. If he wanted even more beforehand, it was perhaps because he hadn’t yet taken out a £1m loan against the property from a dodgy lender, which he did in 2021 or so.
I’ve spoken with folks who Hilton tried to get loans from to buy the land, hence my comment on the collateral he offered.
Again, I’ve got nothing good to say about Peter Swann —- I first got involved with Scunthorpe United to get him out and made whole videos and public appeals that trashed him —- and I’m know he’s a pain in the ass to deal with. But given his own financial problems (some of which I unearthed), I do not think he is trying to not sell the land and stadium. There’s only so much that can be done on it, after all.
