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He's still got a chance of getting a medal at the end of the season before leaving on a free hasn't he?

I find that comment quite disrespectful to Joe Low

Just back to the days when someone valued leaves they are celebrated on the official website please. (Unless it’s the week for cleaning the office of course.)

I wasn’t even trying to prove a point, I just assumed the next 48 hours would be filled with PR wins.

Quite surprised to wake up and see no movement on this at all.

Something else for us all to be upset/pleased/not bothered/wait until I've seen them in action...

It's confirmed by BBC that Kelly Cates, Mark Chapman and Gabby Logan will be the new Match of the Day presenters from next season.

It's not just a game, it's a professional football club with a professional comms strategy. Of course they're going to announce the successor to Bloomfield in a professional manner. Why would you resent that? I get the sadness that Matt has left but it seems some people would almost prefer us to revert back to the days of Alan Hutchinson sporadically updating the Call The Blues line as a way of finding out news about the club?

I'm still reading some comments on here with a certain sense of disbelief. When we were sold by Rob to anonymous billionaires what did we think the future was going to look like? Continued losses with someone funding them? No. We all cheered when the academy came along and marvelled at the recruitment of off field (and on field staff). Did people not think that this meant a seismic change behind the scenes?

And now Matt leaves. He clearly felt he wasn't part of the future at the club and the new way things were being run. The owners have their plan and with all due respect to Mr Wycombe he has a choice of getting on board or not. He chose not to. If he chose to then the club would have not said they regretted him going. I am sure the ideal outcome would have been he bought in 100% from top to bottom and embraced change - but clearly his vision was different. This is not Matt being bad or the ownership being bad. It is change and there are always victims of change. Do we think we can carry on losing over £1million a year and still be in existence in 1, 2, 3 years time? No chance. Do we want growth and stability, I guess. There is a price for this change though.

Would I have liked Matt or even Gareth to stay and lead us to a sustainable future in the Championship? Of course. But we didn't have a sustainable future. This is a new era. Do I prefer it? I will tell you in five years time maybe. Did I love the old era, it was brilliant.

I am sure when Loakes Park was being sold people were faxing each other in similar ways expressing their anger about the identity of the club being ripped up. We evolved, we thrived, we will again.

[No inside knowledge was cited in this post]

Bloomfield is the ultimate professional, and for him to be this close to being openly critical things must have been very bad indeed.

Interesting article here with some choice Blooms quotes: https://www.lutontoday.co.uk/sport/football/luton-town/bloomfield-reveals-it-took-him-a-couple-of-seconds-to-say-yes-to-luton-town-job-offer-4944106

No mention of the "ownership team" there.