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We are standing in the way of Low!

The only thing I dislike about Dan Rice is that he probably wears Hugo Boss.

I will revise my opinion when further information is discovered.

I believe the Trevormonitor would be dusted off and used

Denis Law has died https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/ckgvny01x9go

One of the greats

I don't think these things are related. The model the club is adopting is that players are bought regardless of managers. It's the manager that is selected to play to a certain style and get the best out of players purchased over his head.

You could tell from the nudge-nudge-wink-wink interviews Blooms gave through December he was keen to bring in Morley, yet instead a few Scandi lads are brought in. Nothing wrong with that, but as MB hadn't met the first before he signed, it's clear they weren't bought with him in mind.

What counter offer could Wycombe make? Once a club at a higher level, offering a substantially better package, and what on the face of it more closely matches the roll wanted, realistically it can't be matched. Accept the situation and move on. If the offer is right, you don't stand in the way of players wishing to step up, why should it be different for anyone else.

For such a big business brain, I'm surprised you don't know what constructive dismissal is.

Fundamentally, no matter how much Dan Rice may have respected Matt's tactical nous and ability to get great results, he was well within his rights to want to move to a head coach / director of football model where Matt would lose access to part of his existing role. The model Dan wants to move to is less dependent on us having a strong manager and allows the role to be split better so that whoever is head coach gets to spend more time on the training pitch and less in the negotiating room. This doesn't seem insensible to me.

Yes you can argue that Dan should have given up on that model in order to keep Matt at the club and happy. But even if he'd signed a long contract it wouldn't have really stopped him moving to another club if one had come calling with an offer of Championship football. And then Dan would have to build a whole new system, possibly mid season. Viable, sure, but he's perfectly within his rights to want to build it from the get go and replace Matt with a head coach if and when he chose to move on.