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 and harsh, with a positive pre-season at risk.

Bloomfield did oversee an upturn in form which, over the course of an entire season, would have kept Oxford up and its timing will be disappointing, to say the least, for the now former boss.

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

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