Because our head of recruitment is in demand and Boehly NEEDS the toys others want. I've said on here repeatedly that their strategy is "look at who's in demand on the BBC Sport Gossip column and bid, bid, BID!!" It's no surprise that Man United are rumoured to be interest and then...
I'd imagine his successor may well be in the club already. Mike Cave is already stepping in similar to David Weir when Ashworth left. When we poached him from Fulham (people forget that we hire people from other clubs too) you'd like to assume that it was with some view on career progression...