With a week left until the players return to Oxford United, Matt Bloomfield has been sacked.

I had just left the house to get a coffee when the embargoed announcement came through. Safe to say that plan was abandoned.

As has the Bloomfield project.

The consensus when he came through doors was that the ex-Luton Town and Wycombe Wanderers man was going to be trusted in the long term. That was even more so assumed with Bloomfield still in charge about a month and a half after the finale of the Championship season despite the U's getting relegated.

So, to sack the head coach this late in the day is strange, with a positive pre-season at risk.

It has already been a summer of change with Dusan Bogdanovic coming in as chairman, replacing Grant Ferguson and head of recruitment Scott........

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