Most of these reactions are wildly exaggerated and hyperbolic. We have known for years that the Prince does not have the funds of most other vanity one-man show owners.
Our moral radar in this is actually ok in my book. We were in deep shit, so had to plot our way out.
Most of the whiter than white guys who now scream our reputation is besmirched seem guys that normally moan about never „speculating to accumulate“ or being a joke for spending Pennies in the Prem.
By doing what he did, the Prince speculated to accumulate. We got up to the Prem with players we kept rather than pay clubs like Liverpool who frankly don’t need to moan as they constantly plot to fuck up financial and sporting fairness for anyone else but their five or six other super rich selfish buddies.
Yes, delaying payments is not the way to do things in a perfect world, but if your mortgage is under water, your dad is almost certain to die in July and you are the only child and heir of his millions, do you let the family home go in January or stretch payments to some well-off creditors?
And as we knew we were in the wrong, we show the class and honor of honest men with a minimum moral radar in accepting our fair dosage of medicine by cooperating and accepting the just fine, rather than grovel and weasel like Everton, Forest or Leicester.
If I was in the boardroom on the limited facts I know, I would have been fine with how we handled a shitty situation.
His main stick to be beaten with: choice of future owners. That one he got badly wrong twice. Can’t really blame a guy for lack of funds…