Forzacitizens said:
lets be honest, i think we need to start winning things before we get up to 65,000 people, thats probably why they arnt interested in it at the moment
There's simply no need for them to buy it, that's why they're not interested.
If you had a 100-year lease on a house, you wouldn't needlessly splash out 200k to buy it outright, and neither will they.
They can still expand the capacity or spruce up the hospitality areas without buying it off the council. Ticket income isn't where football clubs generate their revenue, so I doubt our owners are too arsed about the council taking a cut.
If they expand/improve anything, it will be the hospitality sections as these are relative goldmines for successful clubs (e.g., Arsenal make more per match from their middle tier than Tottenham do from the whole of their stadium).