If the owners were bold, they wouldn't have hired Maynard in the first place. I think they're a bit scared of Warnock, tbh. Either that or his likely requirement to have more input on transfers would have put Montague's nose out of joint.
To save face, they could tell us how great Maynard will be in the long term and hire Warnock as his mentor, but that didn't work with Sergeant Wilko.