Derek Broadley is still heading for the Bermuda Football Association's (BFA) exit doors when his contract expires in March.

The BFA technical director does not foresee any change in his position despite this week's turning over of the presidency from Richard Calderon to Larry Mussenden.

Unlike Calderon, whose last-ditch attempts to hire Jacques Crevosier as a part-time replacement for Broadley were foiled by the clubs at Wednesday's AGM, Mussenden is in favour of having a permanent technical director on board.

While Broadley has not completely ruled out the possibility of staying on, he said it was extremely unlikely and had already begun preparing for life after Bermuda.

"At the moment, I'd have to say I'm working towards an exit in March. Unless something dramatically changes, then that's where I'm heading," said Broadley.

"My priority is to make sure my family is settled. That's why I moved them off-Island because I've got my children's schooling to think about."

Yesterday, Broadley spoke publicly for the first time about the complete collapse of his once close relationship with outgoing president Calderon.

For a number of years they had been firm friends from when Broadley was head coach at Reading Rage – a team Calderon, his twin brother Robert and Clyde Best had owned a stake in. According to Broadley, the pair have not spoken for more than six months, leaving him 'perplexed' by the disintegration of their working relationship.

"I'm not sure what went wrong and would love to know. I'm perplexed," he said. "Maybe, in time, now he's out of office, he might come and tell me what went wrong. I'm completely surprised and a little disappointed, if I'm honest."

On several occasions Broadley said he reached out to Calderon to try and mend their broken lines of communication, but found his efforts rebuffed.

"All I ever tried to do was implement the programmes laid down in Richard's strategic plan," he said. "I've never been told I've not done a good job, so I don't know what the breakdown was about. I did try and reach out to him on several occasions, but was not offered an opportunity to talk. You have to move on and it certainly didn't stop me doing my job."

A lack of belief and patience shown in the new initiatives during Calderon's regime was a source of frustration for Broadley, particularly the player development committee which seemed intent on 'urgently reviewing' programmes before they had been given time to bed-in.

"I'm not sure they fully believed in the programmes they implemented," Broadley said. "How much did they expect to achieve after two years? The new programmes were only up and running for one year and there was too much of an urgent review process, especially from some members of the player development committee."

Broadley has no qualms with not being offered a contract extension by Calderon. He does, however, disagree with the ex-president's assertion that Bermuda no longer requires the expertise of an overseas technical director.

"I can't complain about being let go because I agreed to a three-year contract. But, I do believe a country such as Bermuda needs a full-time technical director, and I think they need an overseas technical director until there's a homegrown person ready to take over."

Devarr Boyles has already been earmarked for that position, but Broadley reckons the youth director needs another two years' experience.

"I believe Devarr Boyles is the right person and have no doubts he will grow into a very good technical director. However, he has only been in the position for 16 months so it would probably be too soon for him at the moment.

"Part of my mandate is to not only prepare Devarr Boyles, but make sure there's a succession line behind him with people like Scott Morton and Maurice Lowe. They all have the qualities to be good technical directors."

What Broadley believes the BFA requires more than anything else at the moment is stability. And, he believes Mussenden's extra know-how, administrative skills and Government and corporate connections make him the right man for right now.

"What the BFA needs now is stability and Larry offers that. People say he's not a football man, but they have to understand a football man comes in many different forms.

"I think Larry is a specialist in his own right in football administration. The on-field stuff is the final product and Larry has a technical department to focus on that part.

"The role of the president is not to be an extension of the technical director, it's to go out and create pathways for a technical director to operate."