”Yes you, did you not get the email saying you were manager?”
”Err yes Sir I did but I thought it was a joke. Like the ones Thomas sent out about the ferrets.”
”Ferrets? What about the ferrets? Never mind that, you are our manager now.”
“Are you sure Sir, I’ve never played the game and I’m actually allergic to grass.”
”But you took FC Shitsburg to the top of the Bundeslige in Championship Manager did you not?
”I did Sir and we won the Champions League”
”There you go then. And do you have degrees in mathematics and data science and have been working at our data hub for 3 months?”
”That’s right Sir”
”Perfect fit then. Now next game you will start the players whose names I’ve just put in the Teams chat. You can meet them tomorrow in training.”
”But Sir I don’t know how to train them, and also I don’t think they’ll listen.”
”Doesn’t matter. The Danish lads know what they are doing and are so polite they’ll listen to anyone. The Kazakh kids just need to play in a real match.”
”But will you be upset if we lose to Slough Town Sir and will Mr Lomtadze find out?”
”Look son no-one gives a shit about the team apart from some old fossils who might moan a bit on some forum called the gasbag. As long as the Kazakh kids look enough like footballers that we can flog them to the National League South with our usual 25% sell-on we’re laughing. After all they paid to come to the Academy in the first place. It’s a busy day for you tomorrow so get an early night and leave the Pokemon Go alone.”
”Oh Sir, no-one plays that anymore.”
”Whatever. Now piss off, I’ve got to make sure all the tickets are sold in the Kaspi Dome for Coldplay Saturday evening and Wasps 2.0 v Northampton on Sunday”
Always been his dream to manage Wycombe, well Bloomfield’s ticked that off even it’s been for a very short period. You question whether the powers to be at the club have fought hard to convince him to stay or do they want one of their own. Interesting times at the club.
Very very disappointed. I hope our overlords do have someone in mind and in place quickly, as I was quite looking forward to another historic end to the season...and that Matt would be part of it. Not looking forward to listening to 3CR on the way back from matches if he does not hit the floor running!
Not sure I can face a tearful @bluntphil interview either.
It's probably not much of a coincidence that when Lommy started beating club records for signings twice in a week then other big changes were on the way.
I don't really want us to go for him but I'd take Martin any day over Ince, Terry and Lennon who are currently ahead of him in that bookies list somebody just posted!!
Very much a leftfield option for Wycombe, though if the Lomtadze inner circle has a strong Danish influence it might smooth the path for one of the more hyped up Danish managers to try their hand as jobs in the Bundesliga may be hard to come by after disappointing ends to his spells at Mainz and Union Berlin.
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”You there, Manager!”
”Me sir?”
”Yes you, did you not get the email saying you were manager?”
”Err yes Sir I did but I thought it was a joke. Like the ones Thomas sent out about the ferrets.”
”Ferrets? What about the ferrets? Never mind that, you are our manager now.”
“Are you sure Sir, I’ve never played the game and I’m actually allergic to grass.”
”But you took FC Shitsburg to the top of the Bundeslige in Championship Manager did you not?
”I did Sir and we won the Champions League”
”There you go then. And do you have degrees in mathematics and data science and have been working at our data hub for 3 months?”
”That’s right Sir”
”Perfect fit then. Now next game you will start the players whose names I’ve just put in the Teams chat. You can meet them tomorrow in training.”
”But Sir I don’t know how to train them, and also I don’t think they’ll listen.”
”Doesn’t matter. The Danish lads know what they are doing and are so polite they’ll listen to anyone. The Kazakh kids just need to play in a real match.”
”But will you be upset if we lose to Slough Town Sir and will Mr Lomtadze find out?”
”Look son no-one gives a shit about the team apart from some old fossils who might moan a bit on some forum called the gasbag. As long as the Kazakh kids look enough like footballers that we can flog them to the National League South with our usual 25% sell-on we’re laughing. After all they paid to come to the Academy in the first place. It’s a busy day for you tomorrow so get an early night and leave the Pokemon Go alone.”
”Oh Sir, no-one plays that anymore.”
”Whatever. Now piss off, I’ve got to make sure all the tickets are sold in the Kaspi Dome for Coldplay Saturday evening and Wasps 2.0 v Northampton on Sunday”
It isn't quite perfect, as we're on a bit of a mid table run of form. 2 wins from 6 at home in the league certainly isn't promotion form.
With apologies to @flymofrank Russ Martin would he the obvious choice.
But I suspect it’ll be someone we’ve never heard of. Who’s hot in Scandinavia?
I don't understand what you mean by "Wycombe only have themselves to blame here"
This is what they want. I can't understand what people aren't getting
I can't understand where you've got that from?
I'd be happy with Russ at this level
He surely wouldn't take it?
I think it was 2022- 2023 in league one...but as you say he was at Watford by then (I think)
His current status is unemployed, so surely we can't rule it out?
Ole Gunnar Solskjær
Matt will obviously take his team with him and that will leave us pretty short for a little while until the new head coach arrives with his own team.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jan/13/luton-close-to-appointing-wycombes-matt-bloomfield-as-new-manager
Guardian saying it's done
JJ plus Vokesy
Agreed! Some people don't think smoke is coming from a fire until the building is burning down.
Always been his dream to manage Wycombe, well Bloomfield’s ticked that off even it’s been for a very short period. You question whether the powers to be at the club have fought hard to convince him to stay or do they want one of their own. Interesting times at the club.
Someone else with likes to Molde to join Anders Hagelskjær.
I don't know what to tell you.
The key phrase from that Guardian article.
Christ I hope not Solskaer
Hasn't this always been the ethos of the club though? That we don't stand in people's way?
Yup. They probably met the clause in his contract
Very very disappointed. I hope our overlords do have someone in mind and in place quickly, as I was quite looking forward to another historic end to the season...and that Matt would be part of it. Not looking forward to listening to 3CR on the way back from matches if he does not hit the floor running!
Not sure I can face a tearful @bluntphil interview either.
If it's Steve Evans...I'm done.
It's probably not much of a coincidence that when Lommy started beating club records for signings twice in a week then other big changes were on the way.
We always accept the approach don't we? Gareth had numerous interviews.
I don't really want us to go for him but I'd take Martin any day over Ince, Terry and Lennon who are currently ahead of him in that bookies list somebody just posted!!
Robbie Savage and Paul Lambert 33/1...help!!
Come on Rice - get out from behind your luxury PC.
Come on Edvard - get out from your fancy Marylebone mews house and do a days graft
Come on Mihail - get out of your bunker and face the fans
enough of this soulless bilge ….
You wonder if the last straw was not being backed to go after Morley on a permanent basis and then signing one or two players for huge money.
But, again, Blooms is going to find that model almost anywhere he goes in the top two divisions.
Is anyone keen on any of them? Anyone know which one has worked the closest with Data deciding on signings?
What's Mark Warburton doing these days?
Very much a leftfield option for Wycombe, though if the Lomtadze inner circle has a strong Danish influence it might smooth the path for one of the more hyped up Danish managers to try their hand as jobs in the Bundesliga may be hard to come by after disappointing ends to his spells at Mainz and Union Berlin.