If it means they have more money to invest in the team going forwards, then it makes sense to try and get the club as cheap as possible. Faced with getting the club for £14m vs say £7m and then having a couple of £m to invest in the team, this would seem like a wise thing to do.
Could you blame any prospective business partners pulling out after the BS that he came out with? Let's hope that the reason he is supposedly keeping his mouth shut this time is that he has learnt a very basic lesson in how to conduct business?
And as the fc isn't in admin, I don't see why there would be a -15. Simply fold SLH and start a new co. Then again, I didn't think we should get the original -10, so I obviously know very little.