Canadian Team in serious trouble

[G3079]

It says the executive was aware, and that players must have understood where certain types of information where coming from (but probably didn't care to question anything).

The early line with both articles appears to be that they (seemingly everyone within soccer in Canada) want to shift all blame to Herdman and Priestman, with everyone else being being guilty only by being feeling to cooperate or staying quiet. As you say, that sounds unlikely, but it's a 'good' setup for very limited consequences outside those two.

I wonder if it sets up the national teams for punishments from international federations though.

Seems like that is exactly what is happening. The summary I've read here pretty much puts all blame on those two (plus Mander and Lombardi), and the consequences are commonplace items in any modern organisation like mandatory compliance training, contractually obligated reporting of violations, reviews and audits. In short, absolutely no consequences of any sorts for anyone and anything that hasn't already been burned.

 

[Cheimoon]

Seems like that is exactly what is happening. The summary I've read here pretty much puts all blame on those two (plus Mander and Lombardi), and the consequences are commonplace items in any modern organisation like mandatory compliance training, contractually obligated reporting of violations, reviews and audits. In short, absolutely no consequences of any sorts for anyone and anything that hasn't already been burned.

Yeah, the phrasing is all very convenient...