Christ on a bike! You're fickle as feck aren't you? Do you realize that our winning run encompasses Villa (worst side in living memory), Palace (9 points from the last 51!) and an Everton side (3 points from the last 21) that's been on the wrong end of tonkings for ages now (Liverpool made them look non-League at times). Even in those, barring Palace, none has been a truly convincing win. We laboured to a 1-0 against Villa and needed a last-minute winner against Everton. Sure, we controlled these games and could easily have put the Everton game to bed ages earlier - but equally, if Lukaku had been in better nick, we could conceivably have lost to the worst Everton side in years.
Oh and I'm sorry, but why is there an either-or in your projection - either we keep LvG and youth OR we lose LvG and youth? I'd reckon that any incoming manager would be insane to cut Rashford, Martial, TFM etc. out... Instead, we're far more likely to see Valencia, Fellaini and co depart...
I was firmly in LvG's corner when he'd come in and backed him right up until this autumn. Now though, there are no doubts in my mind. He needs to go. We can't (and shouldn't) be blinding ourselves to the overall picture each time the team pulls out a semi-decent performance against some crap team. All said and done, we should have been walking all over this Everton team. That we won is something to celebrate, but should equally have been something we expected.