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I'm not sure what I said that you're disagreeing with? If it's "The reality of the club prioritising survival and financial prudence over the desire for a top ten finish" that was intended as the short term. i.e. Essentially what you say - the club looking at the bigger picture and not...

The squad he has now is not the one he agreed to manage, and the changes were not things that would have been expected, so he didn't 'know what he signed up to'. He didn't know he would fall out with a couple of top players. He didn't know the players he recommended would fail to live up to...

Did he? We've often been told we would make one big sale a year. Perhaps he wasn't expecting to lose so many experienced hands from one season to the next. Perhaps this was as much, as @Withdean11 says, a way of making a point to that effect. 'We can do this if you make one sale a year, but if...

I would imagine De Zerbi's response to that would be 'you've made it clear your process is buying young inexperienced players and developing them and selling them to buy more inexperienced players to develop and sell. I'm just following your philosophy'.