I'm Rafa's biggest fan and i mean that. I have a tattoo of his head on each of my balls to prove this - if anyone wants to see? I'd imagine you'd prefer to take my word for it but, was his leaving somehow necessary for a fully fledged attempt at removing the cancers? Or maybe that Rafa's power was diminished as a side effect of Purslow's pursuit from within of the cancers, meaning that he had to leave?
The situation to remove them from within must have started to develop since Purslow arrived and because he was pulling in a different direction to Rafa relationships fell apart and in the end Rafa had to leave because the resultant mess was too great.
I hated Purslow when Rafa left, hated him. He reminds me of Zoolander as well which makes it even worse but i absolutely despised him. I still think he's a jumped up little prick now but i do wonder whether the removal of a great manager and the replacing of him with a nice one is a small price to pay when faced with the long term effects the cancers staying on would've produced.
Purslow must have realised this early doors, hence his half-arsed attempts to find new investment because he really wanted them out. If Rafa leaving was a side effect of this then, no matter how much esteem we hold him in, in the end, it was for the greater good and perhaps if this was the case, the hatred towards Purslow could recede?