You make some really good points - especially the one about the Lockdown coming at the right time for us. However, the fact we have emerged from it in a much better place is surely credit to Potter. And our rivals could and should have benefitted too (Bournemouth - lots of players back from...
I obviously have no more insight than you, but I imagine that if CH had lost the dressing room, Tony would have known, and would have done something about it. His judgment was that it we stood a better chance of staying up with CH in place, and that must (I think) be down to the respect that...