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Appears he has taken an early retirement and joined the coaching staff at Brighton u21s. I’ve never met him but apparently he is a really intelligent and great guy, who is clearly in the next step of his career now and looking to the long term.

I hope there is no underlying injury that we are not aware of, and who knows perhaps we will see him back on our coaching staff at some point in the future?

Best of luck Jason, and Brighton are lucky to have you.

Is that you Ian Beale?

After a crap night to sleep on it!!!

With a new morning and the sun in the sky, I’ve decided that his role now at Wycombe is probably not the role he took on. Despite his love for our club, he strikes me as very ambitious and his stock is currently incredibly high. Luton are ultimately local and despite being a s#1th0le they have lots going for them and do have similarities to us in terms of punching above their weight in recent times. They have a new ground on the horizon and a nucleus of a good championship team, just struggling with the adjustment back after relegation and losing their focal point in Ross Barkley and probably a couple of others.

If he genuinely feels he can move them forward over the next 12-18 months then sadly for us this is a great opportunity for him, and avoids him having any real fall out within the club and towards the fan base if he doesn’t feel he has such full control over the things he may previously have had as manager here.

If he continues his upward trajectory which I believe he will, then I accept sooner or later he will be employed somewhere as a head coach with a far reaching scouting network with all the data involved etc. But this is normal in the upper echelons of the English game - it’s not so normal in a third tier club with average gates of 5,000. When this happens it’s different as he will no doubt know and embrace what he is signing up for.

I’ve accepted he is leaving unless he finds the strength of Saint Martin O’Neill to turn down Nottingham Forest in the 90’s to see the job through.

We will move on and it will be different, I agree with many that this is the crossroad now where it will probably never be the same again. However, overall we have some very good things happening at our beloved club and we are still an incredibly fortunate fanbase.

Finally I expect that both Luton and Wycombe will publish an announcement on the websites and social media at exactly the same time at some point this morning.

Good luck Matt, you absolute legend. You will always be Mr Wycombe to me. Go and smash it Luton lad, and I hope we can meet again in a Championship fixture next season.

Over and out.

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Do we get the "transfer record broken" sweetener before or after Blooms' departure is announced?

He's obviously wanted out for a while, as it seems he had talks with Coventry and Millwall. Though he also has form for leaving a manager job for a better offer.

There must be a clash somewhere behind the scenes, but he is getting noticed because the budget has been pumped up, and in a position to actually challenge.

Good luck to him, and it will be interesting to see the next guy in charge.

Go on then, enlighten us

Can't wait to find out who it is!

Wycombe existed before Matt Bloomfield, and it will continue to exist and thrive after him. A superb man, and a superb servant to the club, but this is just the beginning of another chapter.

BBC Three Counties reporting Blooms "Looks set to Join Luton as their new manager" this morning, and like most people I have seen and heard enough to accept what's about to happen. Those of us who follow the Kremlinology at Wycombe had come to the conclusion that not everything was rosy in the garden between MB and the new ownership, and that therefore when the opportunity presented itself to manage at a higher level, he has chosen to do so. He will have sought advice from others he trusts, notably GA and Rob Couhig - both of whom will (I suspect) have told him not to pass up this opportunity.

For me it will be interesting to see if Blooms has any leaving message for WWFC supporters, although I am certain the new ownership wont permit any leaving video of MB saying goodbye to the players and a final interview, a la GA/Dobbo.

But also, how Dan Rice handles the announcement. I am not expecting oodles of sentimentality, or any effort to persuade us that he and the rest of the club "did all we could to keep MB".

This will be watershed moment as others have suggested. But hopefully, not one that we look back on as a wholly negative development. I consider myself a rationalist and am therefore resisting at least for the moment the (admittedly strong) temptation to veer off down the conspiracy route, that this was all totally preventable if only Dan Rice and co. had backed MB and put a much higher bounty on MB in the form of hus release clause. Let's see and I may well change my mind depending on what's said and done in the coming hours...