I'm pretty sure the owners of The Sportsman would have sold up in two shakes of a lamb's tail if TB had thrown a comparatively trivial amount of money at them . But expanding Wthdean was always a non-starter sadly.
This. By a factor of however many you care to name. All the great and good things about the Amex lifted up and plonked down on the site of the Goldstone, or even Withdean, would be just about PERFICK.