I'd be absolutely fuming with them if this is all true. Pathetic. Especially if a decent man and good manager loses his job over it.
Perhaps time for a few big names to be moved on.
I'm now expecting the worst and after it happens I'd be surprised if there wasn't a big leak about something going badly wrong between Arne and the players over the summer.
There's only so many positions we can buy successors for in one go. This summer we needed to plan for TAA leaving, losing Diogo, Robbo on his last legs and only one more year of Mo.
I don't think the squad is any weaker than last year but there is some weird stuff going in with Arne's continual ignoring of Gomez, Chiesa, Endo etc. If you don't want them, sell them or loan them out and get your own lads in.