Bloomfield leaves for Luton

 

Well, well, well this is interesting. After a successful but very cold victory in the FA Cup against Pompey Matt Bloomfield leaves HP12 for Championship side Luton Town who sit 20^th in the league after sacking Rob Edwards. In this blog I’m going to go through what I think about Bloomfield leaving, who could succeed him and what impacts this could have on the club itself in the weeks to come.

What I think about Bloomfield leaving

When all the rumours about Lutton started to appear, I wasn’t worried about him going. Like most Wycombe fans I thought he was happy at the club and seeing we are in the automatic promotion places and has a strong squad around him I thought he wouldn’t leave. But I was wrong. From watching interviews with Dan Rice talking about the club the impression I got from him was, he didn’t like Bloomfield because during the interview he didn’t call him Blooms or Matt or even Bloomfield it was just “the manager.” I thought it wasn’t much at the time but maybe it was. I think it was the boards intention to get rid of him at the start of the 25/25 season. With us trying to sign foreign talents aboard for big money and a Billionaire as our owner maybe he wants a foreign manager or a big name.

When the club released a statement about Bloomfield leaving this is what it said, “the club is naturally disappointed with Matt’s decision to leave in the middle of the season. However, we respect his decision to pursue a new chapter in his career. He leaves with gratitude and best wishes from everyone at Wycombe Wanderers, and we thank him for the services to the club” as a supporter I think this is disgusting from the club, that man served 22 years at this club took us to rivalling Birmingham City in a title race in league One and all he gets is a paragraph. He is our Mr Wycombe, he was our club captain for 10 years and helped us get promoted three times, I feel outraged of how treated him and how he could not say goodbye to his players who are his colleagues and some his friends, I hope the club treat the next gaffer with more respect.

The Heirs to the Throne

  Now here is the interesting part who will be the next Wycombe Wanderers boss, from different sources the are the possible candidates.

1.   Steven Schumacher: job status-none

This for me is the man I want as our new manager. Schumacher has success in getting teams promoted from this league into the championship- which is what he did with Plymouth. He could be trying to find a long-term project somewhere and we could be that place. The only problem is he is still a big name, do other clubs want him that are bigger than Wycombe and does he even want to come to us in the first place. For me it seems perfect but it’s a 50/50 at the moment.

2.    Claus Norgaard

This one is interesting and a big gamble. Claus Norgaard is assistant manager to Brentford boss Thomas Frank, the only reason I think we want him is because Wycombe’s recruitment model is a mimic of Brentford’s, so it would be a good idea to bring in someone who has worked in Brentford since 2022. The downsides are that we have to pay out his contract to get him and he hasn’t had a senior management job since 2018 and that was in the Danish Superliga with Sonderjyske. This would be his first management job in the EFL. It would be a risk but at the moment he is the favourite to take it.  

3.   Oscar Hiljemark

     Oscar is a manager I have never heard. Apparently, he has been impressive in his time in Sweeden with IK Elfborg. In the transfer window his striker Michael Baidoo made a move to Plymouth Argile. This could tempt Hijemark to come to the ELF. At the age of 32 The board could be thinking about Brighton’s successful 31 year old coach Fabian Hurzler, they could hope we could replicate it with Hijemark. At this moment in time its just names and rumours anything is possible when it comes to Wycombe Wanderers.

Impact on the club

Now to the big and oh so important question. What happens next? Well, the answer to that is time. If don’t get a manager soon it could impact are promotion hopes and depending on the manager, we get the lads need to learn their style which could take a while this could lead to a drop in form and in league one you could go from second to tenth in two weeks it is tight at the top. With this curveball I would be surprised if we aimed for a play-off spot instead of an automatic place. The future of this season is in the balance its going to get spicy in here.