No they perhaps don't deserve it. But they're humans and a tiny, incalculably small, minority of people would have acted differently than they have whether or not they've been good custodians for the club.
They cocked the club up. But try to look at it pragmatically. We MIGHT not have been here to tie up that deal with Stott had the club not been 'saved' all those years back.
But then none of us has a crystal ball and selling to Stott might of course be the final nail in our coffin, perpetrated by them. Who really knows?