Also remember 2 things.

1 - he never spends to long at one club.
Ive just looked he's done 6 clubs in 15 years of which he has also spent nearly 4 years on gardening leave or not with a club. So that is 6 in 11 years, so about 2 on average per club.

2 - he was a close ally of Eales, who brought him in. With Eales unfortunatly going, makes sense a new CEO will want his own senior people. In some respects maybe getting this done now, is better than a struggle of sorts later on in the window.