His management would be incompetent if they didn’t. Not much of a story.

Didn’t need to read the article to come to the same conclusion.

TLDR: Unless Merc can pick up Verstappen Russell won’t be leaving Merc. Russell has no reason to go to another team because Merc is still one of the top teams and, unless Verstappen becomes available, there’re no reason to replace Russell because there’s nobody better to replace him with.