Too many dominoes falling, really, to ignore. I don’t understand people blaming the club though. The first domino was Chelsea parting ways with Poch, and then approaching McKenna. Second was a journo report we’d made contact with McKenna. Third was the Guardian articles we were sacking EtH after the cup.
I struggle to see all the parallels with LvG, honestly. LvG’s final season wasn’t nearly as bad as this, and LvG said he was blindsided, and apparently offered up his resignation which was rejected and said he believed he was staying on until someone told his wife he was out. (If you believe LvG). I don’t recall the last 3 months of LvG’s reign basically being like, “Are you getting sacked?” like EtH’s has been.
If it’s McKenna, he has a huge history with United and we can’t fault the club if they wanted to find out if he was leaving Ipswich, and determine if he was thinking of going to Chelsea, and decide to tell him to hold off for us. We can bash the club for many things, but I’m not sure if this is one of them.