I think that you're not appreciating that if a bigger company comes in with a better offer for you, as an employee, you are going to want to consider it. No matter how rosy your current job is. Lambert is too ambitious not to. Some people like being happy in their job and don't care when someone says "oh, it's a dead-end job, you're going nowhere". They don't care, they're happy. Lambert is not like that- he is highly ambitious and restless. No matter how content he is in a job, he will always want to improve and be the best. If he senses that he can do it elsewhere, he will move. He wants to hear what the Villa board have to say.
I should explain further the nature of companies, I hope it's not too patronising. Norwich is a quite large company with a set of directors who owe that company duties. McNally is obviously one of them- the most important, as is/was Lambert. Norwich is not some joke toy run by a multi-millionaire who can do what he wants and disregard the company. McNally has some very serious and onerous legal obligations that he owes to the club. This means that he acts in the club's best interests. It is impossible that they have "fallen out". There may be disagreements, but we are not talking about Mourinho vs Abramovich. This is Director A of large company disagreeing with Director B of large company. In other words, their relationships are not personal (though of course they may be as well), they are professional.
Lambert is both an employee and a director of the company. He has the opportunity to be an employee/director at another company where the rewards are potentially greater and his career-ambitions may have a better chance of being met.
I appreciate that this is an emotional issue for all of us because football clubs are all too often not run like proper companies, but you have to separate your emotions here and understand that McNally et al are highly professional. They do not love the club. If there was any serious dispute, McNally would have accepted the resignation (because it would be in the company's best interests).
Maybe this seems hard to understand, but I can assure you FTSE 250 directors move around all the time- this is no different. You have to trust me on this. I listen to you on a lot of areas where I'm no expert- but we're talking here about legal advising for high-net-worth employees of medium/large companies. Lambert will have consulted heavily with lawyers about this, and negotiated with the Norwich board. This is not some idle toys-out-the-pram Bernie Ecclestone at QPR moment.
