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Oxford United head coach Matt Bloomfield says he is confident of keeping his job at the club despite relegation from the Championship.
Charlton’s win over Hull City on Saturday condemned the U’s to the drop and brought their two-year spell in the second tier to an end.
Bloomfield replaced Gary Rowett in January and despite some encouraging results and performances, he was unable to keep them up.
The U’s boss
Arne Slot believes keeping his Liverpool team together would mark a “big summer” for the club as he insisted Trent Alexander-Arnold’s future is still “not done”.
The Reds have secured captain Virgil van Dijk and leading scorer Mohamed Salah on new two-year deals, but there is uncertainty around the future of right-back Alexander Arnold because his contract expires in the summer.
“It’s already a big summer now,” said Slot. “It
News of Buckingham’s sacking was met with plenty of criticism from U’s fans.
Many felt sorry for the 39-year-old who had local links to the area and got the club promoted to the second tier of English football for the first time in a quarter of a century after winning the League One play-off final at Wembley.
“I’m really respectful of the fact that Des was a really popular guy,”
It is no surprise Wolves’ proposal to get rid of VAR was rejected.
Given the Premier League was committed to paying for it, whether they used it or not, any likelihood of clubs joining Wolves was non-existent.
However, Wolves’ secondary aim was to generate a wider debate and they have achieved that aim.
No-one, whether it is clubs, match officials or the Premier League, is happy with what is happening
When you look at Liverpool’s season as a whole then of course, for obvious reasons, there will be some disappointment about how things have turned out.
But there are also more positives than you might think because they have won a trophy, the Carabao Cup and got back into the Champions League spots, which was not a given after their previous campaign. And there is more to come from this