Huge difference between being realistic and being actively negative.

I doubt anybody is going to argue that the Bros hadn't done very well if they got us from NL to L1 and then sold.

Obviously that's with you making the rather large assumption that our mild mannered Scandinavian owners would get frustrated at that point and seek to sell and potentially profit. They have more patience than in your scenario, they might not.

Just like I have no idea what the actual wealth is behind them is, where it comes from, how much they are prepared to spend on NCFC, what their overall aim is, what they believe the ceiling is under their ownership, what their exit strategy/point is etc.

It's all guesswork about to people that due to **** personalities, professionalism and approval we know very little about and therefore it's very difficult to guess with any certainty.