Kassam wants to knock down the stadium and build houses, we all know this, but by evicting us he's losing out on several million quid while we work on building a new stadium because he cannot knock down the Kassam until we have a permanent home as I understand it. If we HAVE found a way out of the contract and went back to Kassam, he'd be foolish to not negotiate a new short term deal because he'd be leaving himself with a stadium with no income.
All I would say is that there are a number of things that Kassam was meant to have done, or was meant to have
not been allowed to do ever since he first showed up in the late nineties, and he has gone the other way without facing any repercussions more than once. The Priory was a sticking point on being allowed to build the stadium at all, and it’s now practically fallen down despite being a listed building that he is duty bound to protect. He even built a hotel next door to it a couple of years back, despite the local councils telling him that he wasn’t allowed until he sorted the Priory. He has done no such thing and they’ve just let him do what he likes - the hotel was granted an operating licence immediately and nothing was ever done. They
always let him do what he likes. He’s not bothered about the income that he loses versus having it open as a pub, either.
I’m not giving any credence to the OP or their claims whatsoever, but in terms of the principle of your comment, if we were ever to choose to leave the stadium for any reason at all then FK would likely mount a legal challenge that we had given up our right to a protected home, and argue that the agreement is therefore void. He would have a really strong case, too. If he can say, “They have a protected home for as long as they want it, and they have chosen to walk away and go elsewhere despite being the ones who negotiated this deal to begin with, so what is this stadium for?” then no court or local authority would be likely to just shrug and leave an empty, rotting stadium standing there. Especially when they’re always desperate for new housing. It would be a fair argument in that scenario to say that we had decided we don’t want the stadium, and had given up those protected rights. He would have the bulldozers parked up and ready to go before the ruling had even been passed.
I made this argument three years ago, when I met with people at the club who said that they wanted to storm off and “play at a non-league ground for a couple of years to bring the fan base together”. I asked them which non-league ground they had identified that the EFL would be happy to allow us to play in without being expelled, and also where our new stadium was going to be built in the meantime which meant that we weren’t making ourselves homeless indefinitely, because the second that we leave Kassam will be making a case that we have given up our rights. We can’t have our cake and eat it. They didn’t have an answer, and three years later we’re still there.