This article makes me wonder. First of all it's the Daily Mail, so I believe there is like a 5% chance of it being true. Lets pretend that it is, Roman still admires AVB but sacked him anyway, however he believes the players to be the problem and has promptly told them so.
If that
was the case (it most likely wasn't) then why not instead, come out and publicly back your manager? So when he then feels comfortable to drop all the big ego'd tossers and perhaps has a few bad results, at least everybody would know a big summer shake up was coming and that a poor season or two was to be expected.
Bah, I don't know.
I believe I read before that he was in fact an Arsenal fan.