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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.

Gonna be a hypocrite and post again on the subject. Do we know they didn't value him? Perhaps he was offered a new contract and turned it down with his sights set on bigger things (like Luton, who people need to get over their hatred towards and accept are a considerably bigger club with a decent chance of getting to the Prem in the next couple of years).

Nail on the head, seems dumb to not change your mind once person is performing above and beyond

A lot more professional than it could have been. I mean, that’s been the case since they came in so I have to assume the rift started from day one.

Weird how they sanctioned all those signings during that period.

It's very difficult to watch that and hold back the tears.

Whoever posted that will be sacked by Monday.

Yes, because refusing to say "the manager's" name in interviews was very grown up.

Yes apparently

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.