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The Athletic piece tells us the reason: we have limited scope to make other purchases and other areas are bigger priorities.
De Gea is certainly a poor fit for ETH's style of football, you'd need to be actively braindead to argue otherwise. That's why ETH has had to be pragmatic and adjust his instructions. And those adjustments by definition limit the team.
But that doesn't mean weaknesses at CF, CM , RB, etc. don't hurt the team as much or more. Or that there aren't squad composition signings that will take resources too (we already need to sign a backup GK even if De Gea stays for example, and two of our four CBs have been linked to potential exits which would require a signing there).
Even if we have an excellent summer, we're still inevitably going to be left with weaknesses in the team next season. The only debate is which weaknesses to carry.
I just love how people talk as if they have had fireside chats with United personnel. You have absolutely zero knowledge of that.