When all this Power/Standing/Barry shenanigans started off just after Power took over, just how did they all think it was going to end? Standing reckons - probably correctly - that his oodles of cash bought him 50% of Power’s share. But as an agent he knew it could never be divulged or formally admitted. He must have known that somewhere down the line Power would want out and all these skeletons would come a tumbling out.
Part of me thinks he deserves to lose whatever cash he put in because he’s just plain fucking stupid.
Not necessarily, as noted previously with 50% Power 50% Standing (albeit basically 100% Power due to the trust or lack of trust agreement) assuming that Power could keep the plates spinning and sell the club for more than they had put in to them at least everyone was a winner, looking even more rosy when you consider the overall training ground uplift in value along with the potential for a 50% share of the ground and proceeds from that.
The one thing I have never really got, all I can assume that a hole appeared in the books, is why Power decided to get Morfuni involved in 2018 as that was only ever going to confuse things and bring a party not close to the Standing/Power 'deal' into consideration, someone who would possibly want to know what was going on, I can only assume that Power thought he would not ask too many questions.
So its all going reasonably well, we are top of the league and a possible way out emerging via either Able or an other especially if its a Lg 1 club to be flogged (whilst the fuss with Standing obviously started in late 2019, as long as there was an out perhaps he kept quiet). Then COVID strikes and the shit hits the fan, revenues vanish and whilst we get promoted its to a very unknown new world. Then that pesky Australian starts asking you to honour your deals, whilst Standing realises he has been rather mislead and suddenly the plates stop spinning and things start to emerge into the public domain.
Considering our very obvious 'can't be arsed' approach to much of the season (if we were a race horse I would imagine that Jockey and trainer would have been invited into the Stewards Room to discuss the non-triers rule) I still wonder where the final windfall is coming from?