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Clem Morfuni raised £2.8m at short notice to pay off a debenture in 2022

The curious case of the 2022 debenture: Making sense of the story has got more difficult with each chapter

The Moonraker charts the tale of the money raised at short notice by Clem Morfuni nearly four years ago to pay back a £2.8m debt, and the contradictions and questions that have littered the way.

07.05.26, 09:21 Updated 07.05.26, 09:52 5 Minute Read

Sam Morshead

Sam Morshead

The story of the 2022 debenture repayment rumbles on at Swindon Town in mid-2026, with the latest instalment only raising more questions about the way the episode has been explained down the years.

Back in the late summer and early autumn of 2022, Clem Morfuni was required to find around £2.8million at short notice to satisfy a demand from Andrew Curran – an associate of Lee Power – to repay a debenture which he had assumed from Power, who in turn had picked up the debt from another former Town owner, Andrew Black.

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Sam Morshead

Sam Morshead is the founder and editor of The Moonraker. He was previously the chief sports writer at the Swindon Advertiser, head of sport at Total Swindon, and has been a Swindon Town fan since 1994.

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