So you are assuming that whatever the allegation was, it could have been properly investigated in a much shorter time frame? What if people they had to speak to about it as witnesses or whatever were away on holiday and unavailable to be interviewed? (and not necessarily those who were...
Maybe the statement was put out by the LMA because of the negative feeling towards Gus that the clubs statement had been generating. (possibly unintentionally, and because of wild speculation, something we'd been ask to avoid doing)
Looking at the views on the other thread on the clubs...