Mrs Barista, I salute you.

Yet again, another balanced, articulate, well-reasoned post which addressed most of the pertinent issues with a clarity befitting Pearson himself.

I still think there could be something more machiavellian going on in the background however and, until Pearson breaks his links with the Allams, he will never truly douse the flames of suspicion over his exact motives.

But, time will tell on that I guess.

For the time being, thank you for responding to my genuine queries without stooping to the name-calling and the childish 'troll alerts' which, unfortunately, appears to be the default position of too many on this board when a 'difficult' question is asked!

Your miles out on both figures

Given Saint Helens got £3m for the land that Knowsley Road occupied about 3 years ago a 120K valuation for the boulevard just over 10 years ago sounds

There's a bit of a clue in the title and within the text that it's land.There's quite a few articles on the financial pages discussing land being a good investment. Logic of supply and demand really, more people need more space to live and more food to be grown so more market competition.

It's immaterial because it was a building Hull City Council paid far more than an earlier valuation for.