Well I know the Athletic journalists who wrote their pieces. I wrote a piece about Kean. I wasn't breathed, mate. You can call an agent or an Italian football expert and get their opinion. That's not the club doing that?
Obviously, the club released a vid saying that, but that's just what clubs do now isn't it? It's all marketing. And the signing was a massive coup - he genuinely is one of Europe's top prospects. That's not to say he hasn't got serious work to do to improve - and you and anyone else with sense will have been saying it when he signed.
And you know I said at the time that the club were wrong to lump all of the expectations on him. Because he wasn't ready for that, as good as he could go on to be.
But none of that equates to 18 minutes (which weren't even bad) and getting hauled off in the way he did.
You're right in what you say about the change working/not working. But as i've pointed out before, I'm not sure Oumar Niasse's three touches and two fouls in his four minutes will have contributed more than Kean had he been played central in those final four minutes, with DCL moving right as happened anyway.
The one thing the change did seem to achieve was flatten the entire crowd and even the Utd team. They all looked as shocked as Kean, which I guess is a bonus.