We're too slow. He'll go to Newcastle.
Lawwell has dawdled about for so long now. He gets paid huge bucks to make difficult decisions but shirks them. If you decide to go with Lennon for some of the highest pressure seasons in our history then give him the correct tools to give us the best chance of succeeding - that means a trusted support staff that can provide him with the support necessary to deal with the management of our club, and not one of your chums who clearly does not work well with him!
I think we finally backed him with transfer dealings - I know there has been a lot of criticisms of our transfers but the quality of player was superior to anything else in our league (although always brought in too late for our European campaigns) and we should have continued to dominate if they had been coached and managed properly.
Our CEO should always be prepared for brining in a new management team to cover issues such as them quitting/being poached, illness (we are living through a global pandemic and Lennon has suffered health concerns in the past), accidents (sadly we had an example with Big Jock in the mid-70s), etc, etc. Now he would hope that he never needs to ever call upon this contingency plan, but he should still keep on top of it and assess what is available and willing to come at all times.
I've long been an advocate of Howe but he will probably end up at the disaster that is Newcastle, do OK there despite the gross mismanagement and then end up sacked in a year or two like the rest of the patsies that take on that poisoned job.
Lawwell should be doing there utmost to get someone of his calibre in asap to sort things out NOW so we hit the ground running in 2021/22 for our European qualifications and domestic campaign.
Ditch at least 2 or 3 of the highly paid failing players and spend it on a decent coach instead who will develop and improve cheaper players and our youth team graduates and have a conveyor belt of talent ready to step in when we undoubtedly sell our best players for big money - as this is clearly our business model then surely employ a manager with this skillset who can do this while at the same time delivering success on the pitch. Sod it - even just employ a competent coach who can teach the basics such as defending/attacking set pieces properly, who actually gets the best out of the players available and can set them up with some sort of structure and purpose!