All the talk about Ole being a great man manager was overstated. He is great at man managing his favourites. It must be great to be Fred, Maguire, AWB, McTominay etc knowing that you can stink the place out week after week without any consequences. What he has failed to do is to keep his fringe players on side. That was SAF's great skill, and Ole should know, he spent his career chasing that carrot.
To promise players game time and then not deliver those opportunities is a ticking time bomb. You buy time but you have to deliver on those promises. If you let them down then you eventually lose them, because it is a serious violation of trust. Why should Donny, for example, believe a word that comes out of Ole's mouth anymore? And it creeps into the senior players too because people don't like to see their colleagues being treated unfairly. I'm not surprised by all these leaks. He has hoarded players that he has no intention of playing, that rot was always going to set in like asbestos.