Exactly. Besides, is it actually of any importance whether his complete failure to make NUFC progress under his tenure because of gross incompetence or because it benefits him? In the end, the result is exactly the same and after 8 years of it how anybody can think with any confidence that things are about to change for the better defies belief.
Well you're right unless we go down (again). In which case he's fucked up.
He'll think he can get away with it, as he has done many times. If we go down it'll be a gamble that didn't pay off, then he'll think he can gamble successfully again. There's not a lot of thought going into it.