Don't think it's for sale and if you want money for grass roots - the Premier League should be funding.

A major concern for the FA will be that since 2010 the government has made huge cuts to investment in sporting and leisure facilities. The FA is having to deal with trying to pay off the debt and interest it racked up in building Wembley and has not been able to plug the gap left behind by government austerity.

Given the PL is only a club itself really and not a business, it is up to its members to invest in community football, but again they have little interest in investing outside of their own area and are under constant pressure to invest in the playing staff and football club facilities. Saying that a PL club should be responsible for grassroots football and other sporting activities nationwide is ridiculous. They could put in place something like a revenue tax for Football clubs and use that to plug the gap, but that isn't going to happen.

So the FA is in an invidious position where they basically have to accept this deal to try and fund the game and the crumbling facilities around the country.

Germany decided not to build a national stadium and instead invested in grassroots, coaches, facilities etc. Their national team has arguably benefited from that decision.

The old Wembley was privately owned. In all the the time (can't rememeber how long) the FA have owned it, a third of it was as a building site.

Not the big national disgrace some are making out

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From the NY Times. I find Kahn's attempt to say his buying Wembley will help him keep the NFL team in Jacksonville as laughable. Wembley will become the Jaguars new home, rather than Fulham's. It would also put a spanner in Spurs hopes to make the new Lane the London home for the NFL. Since I have no faith in Sweet Fanny Adams to do the right thing, if they do sell they will pocket the money and only drips and drabs will make it to the grass roots.

It wasn’t privately owned, it was owned by Brent council, who sold it to the FA in 1992.