In 4 decades following football I can't recall anyone losing the dressing room faster and as public as David Moyes. By December Manchester United employees were cracking jokes about Lumsden. I remember an RVP's interview done towards the end of Moyes reign were he claimed with a full smile on his face that change followed by better times was imminent.
The first thing LVG did was to fire as many people as possible. RVP for example lasted only a season. LVG might have been a tactical dinosaur at that point but he had been in football for enough time to know that the hierarchy in football is sacred and going against that spells trouble.
Its not the player's role to question the manager. That's the sporting director/CEO job. It takes few minutes of listening to sky football to acknowledge that most players have no clue how football work and are only effective as pawns in a chess game. Thus if players can't respect that hierarchy then they should be on their way out. SAF accepted a lot of shit during his managerial career (injury prone players, kung fu kicks, players forgetting a doping test, players not talking with one another for the silliest and pettiest of reasons etc) but that was his one huge red line.
