Jesus reading this forum at the moment is like following an Agatha Christie whodunnit that has been translated from English, into Mandarin then into Njerep.
As Winston Churchill once said about the Notts County Mad forum, "It's a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma".
Me thinks there's a bit of bull$h!t coming from some posters.
Given that LW dropped him at the start of the season for coming back from the off season somewhat less conditioned than expected, I would think that all of this is expected and has been happening for ages. It's just that things aren't great that they are coming out now. LW had a few options to swap things about, but SM doesn't have even that limited option.