He might see the best route to that being running down his contract here, tbh if he can support another promotion push next season it's possibly a price worth paying as he'd be exceptionally difficult to replace
The thing about Schofield is that all of this stuff would have been known to ITV for a while yet he only walks once the gossip about him falling out with Holly starts and the negative effect it had on their ratings / ability to sell adverts.
In the office grafting to produce a document at short notice at a timescale I didn't agree to prior to going on leave, while every other c**t is showing mysteriously 'away' on Teams