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Re: Matt Bloomfield to Luton?
I kind of feel the need to repeat we really don't know what goes on at any club, the conversations that take place, how people are encouraged or discouraged, included or undermined but it is pretty clear MB wasn't entirely happy, and he also took an opportunity.
Reality is also he's won nothing, not taken a club up, maybe steered a couple away from the drop not that we should have been near it. He'll need to do well at Luton to last the season out and risks his progression but it's his choice.
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Re: New Manager Vote
If we're going Danish and want to show our intent then shurely names in the hat should include Michael Laudrup, Morten Olsen, and Kasper Hjulmand
Re: Attendance Prediction - Mansfield Town (a) - Sat 18th Jan '25 - Match 26 in 24/25
7750 including 575 Gracians.
Re: Matt Bloomfield to Luton?
To some extent but there's a difference in being presented with options and directors signing players on their own and now when we don't even have a manager in place. Some of those Prem clubs allow the managers input on the recruitment team appointments and others work very closely with the manager who might still have final say or a vote amongst 3 or 4.
It's all very different for someone who was in charge, had brought with him a recruitment specialist, and had already some success with the players he has brought in. Blooms made a hash of his first window, KVY and Keogh came with pedigree but without the legs and he maybe over indexed on experience but since then he's done great.
I kind of feel the need to repeat we really don't know what goes on at any club, the conversations that take place, how people are encouraged or discouraged, included or undermined but it is pretty clear MB wasn't entirely happy, and he also took an opportunity.
Reality is also he's won nothing, not taken a club up, maybe steered a couple away from the drop not that we should have been near it. He'll need to do well at Luton to last the season out and risks his progression but it's his choice.
Re: Match Day Thread: Mansfield
Not sure about their badge - especially the MFTC text (before any one says I know its MTFC but thats not what it says)
Re: Today...
Someone mentioned the Bury game, 10 years ago. It was a rare away game for me (while visiting a friend locally for his 60th birthday). The game was in doubt due to the snow. Bury’s goal arose due to a rare mistake by Alfie Mawson (who tried to play refined football in the box, annd slipped) and the equaliser was a brilliant solo goal from a young Fred O.
Re: Other Football
Burnley have only conceded 9 goals in 27 games all season, bloody hell
Re: Matt Bloomfield to Luton?
The days of the all powerful manager running everything about the club like Fergie did is and has been dying for a while. We’re nowhere near the days of Miguel De Souza signing for “the fat man in a blue suit” and the sound of a gavel hitting the table.
I’m not sure I am wholly comfortable with it myself, but when you have multiple Billionaires owning clubs - ourselves included - can you really blame them for wanting their people involved heavily in transfer decisions reaching into the millions (or billions at the top of the game) rather than let a manager (who could be gone after 2 months of bad results) spend your own personal money without tight controls?
Because make no mistake - The players we have signed haven’t been signed with Wycombe Wanderers’ money. It’s ML’s money.
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