You can though, can't you? If there's a reasonable basis for the accusations, you can suspend or terminate. They would just need to have some level of investigation into if it was and then act accordingly, and given its a pretty big football club, and the charges are pretty serious, they should be doing that. They might be leaving themselves open to being sued, if he was found not guilty, or their own investigation wasn't sound, but imagine in this case, they'd have nothing to worry too much about.
Yeah I'd have thought there's a way lower bar for companies to act than for a court to convict.
My issue is with people actively wanting them to do so as some kind of summary act of justice. Well no, that doesn't really work - it's only justice if we know he's guilty, and we can't be confident of that until there's a trial.