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That's a bit disingenuous. Had he been offered a contract extension here he would been on a considerably better salary + a promotion bonus (or at least should have been)

On the contrary, I think Matt Bloomfield wanted Morley, but the powers that be didn’t - presumably because he didn’t fit the data model that us mere mortals aren’t allowed to discuss as we aren’t intelligent enough to understand it. 

It feels very much to me that by making an offer to extend the loan they were offering Matt a carrot to keep him happy - albeit a manky Asda wonky carrot (short term loan deal) rather than a Waitrose organic one (signing Morley on a long term deal).

Similar with the Bradley loan deal, some are offering this as proof that Matt had some input into recruitment but my feeling is that was just a low cost option to keep him happy, plus solve an immediate short term crisis at the back. 

It seems to me that the real transfer dealings (the four most recent additions) have been done without any input from the football management side - basically, we’re signing these players, you’ve got to work with them and integrate them into your team - and that to my mind is a big part of why Matt walked away. He’s worked wonders to get his team to the top of the league and could see the hard work potentially being trashed by having to integrate players that he doesn’t know will fit his style of play or could disrupt the harmony in the squad. 

POTFW

Really hoping for some news early in the week on this. Hopefully the Gasroom will head back to normal soon after.

BLOOMFIELD has gone.

He enjoyed a good career and living at WW

But your comments are wasted words. You don’t know how they’re evaluating it. Are they focusing on PPDA, average length of pass, pivoting speed, passes into penalty box, transfer cost, replacement cost, injury likelihood etc etc. I don’t know what Rice and co value either. I don’t know what they’ve observed for Morley. It’s such a waste of time talking about it because it’s all conjecture based on zero knowledge of how the data is evaluated and how the decisions are executed.

Going back to this btw, it's one of the most ridiculous posts I've ever seen on the Gasroom.

First of all, our season isn't "in the bin" after one draw, with 19 games remaining.

Second, we've taken four points from two games since Blooms left. It's not exactly two 3-0 defeats.

Third, it completely ignores that we struggled to beat teams coming to AP and sitting in for a 0-0 for the last two months under Blooms. How was yesterday any different to Mansfield, Bolton, Exeter, Blackpool, Huddersfield? Since Mansfield outplayed us in November and were very unfortunate to lose to Leahy's fluke, every single opposition team to come to AP has sat deep, defended solidly, and shown almost no attacking ambition whatsoever. We've struggled in every such game. Yesterday was just a continuation of that

Talk about throwing one's toys out the pram...

I don't think anyone is claiming to know Wycombe's exact approach - wouldn't be great if that was public knowledge... But I do understand the basic principles of how data is used in football. I've worked with it a fair amount. Not high and mighty, just informed.

Brilliant post.

I know. Or someone blaming Luke Leahy, Sam Grace playing his mates and Judas Bloomfield.