This whole shady cover-up has the rag hierarchy prints all over it: the Glasers, the Pisscan, Combover, Gill etc. Anyone with a bit of clout behind the scenes at the swamp is involved, of that I'm certain.
They are looking at damage limitation here, and if that means the world's most expensive defender being hung out to dry then so be it. They would know, more than anyone else would, that this man's I.Q. is on a par with a piece of plasticine, so they've set him up for a fall that would justify them sacking him and tearing up his contract ("We will not have the good name of the club dragged through the mud..." and all that PR excrement).
There is something extremely treacherous and underhanded going on at that foul club (not for the first time), and that slow-witted, monosyllabic Rock of Gibraltar lookalike is about to become their sacrificial lamb.