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It’s not about undervaluing him.

Its about two people in positions that could recognise it’s not going to work long term and being grown up enough to do their jobs professionally and not waste each others time pretending they’ll be happy.

People will be moaning about how short the video is. Not me, I'll be moaning about the music.

Time to move on, lads. We've got a promotion to win.

Bloomsgate is the Gasroom's Brexit, right down to being told "you lost, get over it" and people who've had enough of experts.

Why on earth would we sell him for £600K? Joe is a £1M+ player in my book.

Bradley is great, but surely we didn't break our transfer record (the first time) to have the lad polish the bench with his derrier?

It is going to be interesting to see what the pecking order is, because I agree Bradley has been fantastic so far.

Reams and reams of well-thought-out posts explaining concerns and yet strawmen arguments still being used while points made are completely ignored. Football is a funny place.

The extraordinary level of backing given to Matt Bloomfield in terms of squad recruitment and wages by Dan Rice etc led to unprecedented success and ultimately to him leaving. And Dan is painted as the bad guy by some. Football is a funny place.

I think the idea is that you sign someone to a fat extension and a higher release clause and make them feel wanted, not wait until you have to make a counter. See: Walsall with Mat Sadler.

Of course the club are within their rights to do whatever, but there is plenty they could have done if they cared about keeping Blooms around.

Why do you feel the owners needed to secure him?

They have come in with an idea and a plan on how the club will be structured going forward. I would bet my house that during one of the very first meetings with Matt they presented a scope or an idea of what the Org Chart for the club would look like under their management including where Matt would sit and what his role would be moving forward, who Matt would report to directly and who he will have reporting to him (which didn’t include Scott Mitchel anymore because that role falls within Dans responsibilities)

They could very well have been happy if Matt wanted to remain in that role.

Matt is/was also perfectly entitled to feel the floor is moving under neath him and he’s not happy or comfortable in what the role will become and so looked elsewhere as the realities of the new org start to kick in.

If it’s no secret in how the leadership want to run the company, and no secret that Matt isn’t happy, what use is it in either DR offering, or MB asking for a new contract?

Honestly, it’s like no one here has been involved in a merger or company acquisition before and not idea what can happen when new leaderships teams come in.