Indeed. All discussions around player performances, manager capability, formations, etc, etc, are periphery and largely futile all the while these owners are at the club.
Probably the same reason why some fans find it impossible to highlight poor performances just because they can't bring themselves to criticise him...?
#confirmationbias
He's only played a handful of games.... give it another few months and we'll knock that natural instinct out of him....
(Said in jest, but with an element of truth, sadly....)
I get that newspapers need contrarians to achieve click-count targets (much like internet football forums, some might say... ) but doesn't there come a point where the credibility of such 'opinion pieces' is stretched a tad too far...?
One would venture there was an implied "whilst we're not in the Premier League" in his statement, which non-dumb people would probably have been able to deduce...