No surprise at all O’Neil would want to come back. The man’s so up his own ass, believing his own hype, that he no doubt thinks he can come back and prove that he could have turned it around last time.
And not surprised at all that Shi would once more, like a dog with its own vomit, return to the one person who was desperate enough for a job to want to take on a team a week before the start of the season, without any prospect of control of scouting or transfers, happy to sit and get his ears scratched for going along with the company line.