Naive if you think Joy hasn't inserted a PL payment for when we get back to the promised land. A start would be knowing what Doug payed for us. Vik, Gus, Cal, Sheaf that's 40m there alone.
You might be right with the PL thing and I’d go along with that but for the way the “final 15%” thing unravelled.
I think a lot of us thought that SISU retaining 15% was a mechanism for PL pay out and it was all very chummy between King & Joy. King saying that it was hard to work without full ownership (or some such) suggests maybe things weren’t all that.
One of Joy’s long term book balancing aims (owning the stadium and revaluing) had just disappeared down a Mike Ashley shaped toilet when King came in.
Was it forced? Had one of Joy’s main creditors insisted that King handled the fund (or whatever) from now on? Was Joy forced out in effect?
These are things the nerdy side of me (and I guess others on here) would love to know.
The silence from Joy and her team almost hints that it wasn’t all roses.
There’s loads of books and podcasts out there about players “I nearly didn’t make it / bad transfer / row with manager / funny stories from dressing room / down and out after giving up football / happy now with supportive missus by my side” (which is all good and that) with a similar theme. The Joy story, £35m row with ex Gov minister, fighting council through courts, ruining a club, relegation, huge debts, Wembley, Storey, Ashley, King, so on so on must be fascinating