English team replacing head of business in crisis (8)
I believe the answer is:
exigency
'crisis' is the definition.
(exigency is a kind of crisis)
'english team replacing head of business' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'english' could be 'e' (abbreviation) and 'e' is located in the answer.
'team' could be 'xi' (eleven, a football team) and 'xi' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for exigency that I've seen before include "Demand" , "crisis" , "Urgent need" , "Sudden unforeseen need" .)