For the time being. Their pockets are not seriously deep however, so none of the above will be able to sustain it in the PL. To put it into context Sheikh Mansour (Man City) is worth ~$22bn. Mathew Benham is only worth ~£3m. To highlight this gulf in funds, Mansour is 7333 times richer than Benham.
Different owners have different wealth, Brentford now are garunteed at least £160m every season they stay in the PL plus their owner is dogshit rich, The others have serious money (Hundreds of Millions) and they will have proper business plans because you don't that get rich without that, These are the people you want to invest in a club, Not the sharks mentioned at other clubs where its back fired.
Swindon didn't do too bad.
Swindon under Power were reported to be £15M in debt, mostly financed by other peoples money. Not exactly sure how you rate the squad they have thrown together as good, unless you are talking the one notable player they have signed ?
So what are the Radford's, Dale Vince and Peter Lim if they are not sugar daddies. You may not like them, you may not like how difficult they make it for other clubs to compete and it's not clear how sustainable their clubs will be when they stop pumping money in but they appear to be up front about what they are doing.
They're just businessman, FGR for instance are trying to be ahead of the game in "Enviromental" things, Like Vegan food, A new stadium made from sustainable materials etc, He still wants to make money and he can afford to lose some for long term gain, Its called having a lost leader, Loads do it, Losing money in a lower league team is the norm, Its just these people can afford to lose money, Unlike those of Bury, Maccelesfield etc, They never had any money in the first place.
Those clubs are spending millions of pounds more than they generate. If those costs are covered by the owners then those owners can reasonably be described as sugar daddies even if they as rich businessmen “can afford to lose money”.
Swindle'em had ONE season in the sun. Then were found out (f**k me, even Sweenz saw through them and turned them down). Lucky for them a "white knight" rode in on his (debt laden?) charger to save them.
It's their money, They can do whatever they want with it, Its not illegal, If it was they would be banned at the very least, Also how do we know they've all spent millions above what they've generated?
And we were so close to being one of these, lest we forget