Your posts are long and often have some good points but this is just such bad faith shite it needs calling out.
He’ll be in the post next year because the board thinks he is the best man for the job - for a variety of reasons (improvement, lack of alternatives, reduced funds if we sack him, positive early summer signings sewn up). Not any conspiracy nonsense about covering their own back. It’s quackery like this that drowns out a lot of good points made on the forum.