This is how Bloom put it:
"He didn't want to discuss [asking to leave a few days before the Palace match] at all.
"He said that if he could leave, if it would be allowable for him to leave the next day that would be fine.
"So this was hugely shocking to me and it was something I had to manage...
Forgetting of course that he'd actually told Bloom he wanted to leave the club anyway back in March 2013 a few days before the Palace game.
Bloom: "He said that if he could leave, if it would be allowable for him to leave the next day that would be fine."
And Bloom had already given him...