Murtough let that happen despite it being his main remit to avoid such a scenario, I will blame him for that because he has been spineless so far. A good DOF is on the phone bringing in Amrabat tomorrow because if this goes south he going to be left holding an empty sack or getting the sack too himself.
Again, we keep being told by other posters here to 'just trust the process' and how professional the back room operation is, and how we dont need a new DOF and how the rejection of bids for Scott McT was a good calculation and the purchase of Mount, when there were more red flags than plus points (i'm not denying you could produce a TIFOI football breakdown of his clever movements and press, and he was obvioulsy good at times for Chelsea back in the day), as the no.8 with his physical profile was ETH being smarter than all his critics and all the rest. There've been undeniable improvements in certain areas ( Licha, Onana, more of an emphasis upon ball retention in general, despite the mixed signals, Rash last season, 1-2 of the youngsters), but still so many questions both around his personal player judgement and about how the operation around him supplements his knowledge or pushes back against decisions where needs be...
It's just as likely we end up doing something like paying Brighton 20m+ to get De Zerbi out of his contract at the end of the season as ETH keeping us in the top 4, especially with other sides step[ping up their recruitment game and in particular strengthening midfield core...
