Graham Potter Thread

[Hashishi 148]

14 minutes ago, cfccrost said:

BREAKING NEWS: Graham potter has been given 2 games by Chelsea board to protect his job. 

 

Is this true 💪

Potter out. Thomas Frank in.

[Milan 17,955]

While I don't believe one single bit GP will be let go, what names are there to possibly hire? Poch is still, still without a job, wonder why...

[Vegetable 830]

This is perfectly the reason we should have clinged to Tuchel for dear life. And everybody said that.

And fun thing is fans of opposite teams are all in for Potter just as we were all in for Ole, because that meant utd will not be a threat for us, so that's telling.

Edited January 2, 2023 by Vegetable

[Hashishi 148]

I'm going to say it again. Potter was hired because he is a yes man. He was hired because tuchel didn't agree with the board whereas potter will agree with anything like a loyal dog. He will keep giving his 'positive' boys gave everything interviews. He is not turning anything around and in 3 years, we will be wallowing in mediocrity because noone will want to touch us after 2 years out of CL. 

[ZAPHOD2319 4,799]

 

[Vesper 30,083]

2 hours ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

 

'Emeka from Arochukwu'

roflmaooooooooooo

 

[Fernando 6,585]

I'm fine with him getting a free pass. 

I remember arsenal with arteta was very bad. But the club back him and now doing well. 

I'm sure the owners are aware of this and because of that they will give this season a pass and next season about the same. 

[robsblubot 3,595]

The thing is that even when Arsenal wasn't quite competitive under Arteta, I knew what he was trying to do. I also knew that if successful, that style (very much Pep's) is really effective in long championships (not so much in cups).

I honestly don't see the goal line just yet. Watched Brighton and they never caught my attention; yes, organized and intense team, like I've seen many others. At this point, I can only hope that the leadership detected something in his work and is betting on it.

Not his fault Auba is his only striker option tho. What a joke of a signing.... one of the most predictable flops.

[Hashishi 148]

30 minutes ago, robsblubot said:

The thing is that even when Arsenal wasn't quite competitive under Arteta, I knew what he was trying to do. I also knew that if successful, that style (very much Pep's) is really effective in long championships (not so much in cups).

I honestly don't see the goal line just yet. Watched Brighton and they never caught my attention; yes, organized and intense team, like I've seen many others. At this point, I can only hope that the leadership detected something in his work and is betting on it.

Not his fault Auba is his only striker option tho. What a joke of a signing.... one of the most predictable flops.

Never caught my eye either. Individual players like Cucurella and Trossard caught my eye but definitely not because of their style of play. For an ownership that is data driven, i dont know who looks at these stats and thinks this is the best manager availible. We are going to be looking for a new manager next october once the ownership sees results not picking up. 

Tuchel inherited a bad squad from Lamps but still managed to turn it around. He is at fault for us signing Sterling and Auba but to be fair to him, we didnt have a transfer department for him to lean on. That is the only thing the board has improved.

Edited January 3, 2023 by Hashishi

[Vegetable 830]

The only thing Potter has in common with Arteta is his team struggling, yet people are using Arsenal to excuse Potter appointment. Completely different circumstances and completely different man. 

[Jype 6,398]

3 hours ago, robsblubot said:

The thing is that even when Arsenal wasn't quite competitive under Arteta, I knew what he was trying to do. I also knew that if successful, that style (very much Pep's) is really effective in long championships (not so much in cups).

I honestly don't see the goal line just yet. Watched Brighton and they never caught my attention; yes, organized and intense team, like I've seen many others. At this point, I can only hope that the leadership detected something in his work and is betting on it.

Not his fault Auba is his only striker option tho. What a joke of a signing.... one of the most predictable flops.

Potter's Brighton were a really well coached team though.

Especially in the 2020/21 season when they finished 16th their underlying metrics were actually quite good. For example:

• xG - 10th (not great but still better than the 15th in actual goals scored)
• xGA - 3rd (gave away very few good scoring chances to the opposition)
• xPTS - 5th
• Passes completed within 20 yards of opposition goal - 5th
• Opposition passes allowed within 20 yards of own goal - 6th

For a team to play like that and then finish 16th in the league was an absolute travesty. In the 2021/22 season they placed roughly the same in all the above mentioned stats across the EPL and finished 9th so things were clearly starting to click a little bit better on the actual score sheets as well.

I'm pretty sure last season Brighton's record against the top-6 clubs (3W, 4D, 5L) was also the best out of anyone not in the top-6 so for a midtable club they were quite decent against the big teams. And the results weren't flukes either, they played some really good football in a lot of those games.

[Superblue 6,372]

6 hours ago, robsblubot said:

The thing is that even when Arsenal wasn't quite competitive under Arteta, I knew what he was trying to do. I also knew that if successful, that style (very much Pep's) is really effective in long championships (not so much in cups).

I honestly don't see the goal line just yet. Watched Brighton and they never caught my attention; yes, organized and intense team, like I've seen many others. At this point, I can only hope that the leadership detected something in his work and is betting on it.

Not his fault Auba is his only striker option tho. What a joke of a signing.... one of the most predictable flops.

I think there's a bit of recency bias with Arteta now. Besides that FA Cup win early on, for about 18 months they played some real poor stuff. They didn't create a lot, looked vulnerable at the back despite playing in a more defensive way, would be regularly dominated possession wise. Given Arsenal in recent times have always been able to fall back on their style of play being easy on the eye under Wenger, I can remember a lot of people complaining about what Arteta was doing. There were times he genuinely looked clueless early on.

I think the least Potter does deserve is the opportunity to fix some of the issues in this squad and what does give me some confidence that it can be turned around is that seemingly his priority is in central midfield which should have been a priority position for the last couple of years.