I haven’t been a fan of the idea of de Zerbi as our manager since I watched him getting on like an arsehole at the side of our pitch as Brighton manager three or four years ago.
That said, the idea that we wouldn’t employ him because he played a player who wasn’t found guilty of anything in a court of law seems odd to me.
I know little about the Greenwood ‘case’ (if case is the right word given he never stood trial), but I am not a fan of young people being binned off forever because of mistakes they may have made; particularly, given what I can pick up on here, that it would appear from the statement United issued that he expressed regret, and given that he has resumed a serious relationship - and gone on to have a family - with the woman at the centre of the allegations.
I still think De Zerbi is a bit of an arsehole, and that it would all eventually end in tears; but him playing Mason Greenwood is for me no reason for him not to be our manager. After all, we’ve got a convicted felon (recently pardoned by his pal - and convicted abuser of women - Donald Trump) as an owner; and, as someone else has pointed out, we frequently welcome back Paul Gascoigne (who has admitted assaulting his ex-wife) as a hero.
Only my thoughts, and I’m definitely not an expert on what went on - but I think it’s a bit late to consider our club as any sort of paragon of moral virtue within what has become a very dirty industry.
