Graham Potter Thread

[Pizy 18,850]

Other than thinking the players will have a mental reset in the summer knowing every team starts from scratch, I really don’t understand this idea that giving Potter another whole summer to turn things around is what the ownership wants. What will actually change? It’s not as though he isn’t getting training time currently. He has had entire weeks free multiple times. He’s had a whole World Cup break to work. The players are certainly not burnt out because we rotate more than any club in Europe AND he gives them multiple days off after some games.

It’s just like they’re trying desperately to save face now. They don’t want to sack 2 managers in the same season having only been here for 1 year. They chose Potter as their man, brought in his entire structure from Brighton, and spent a massive fortune for him. They clearly feel that sacking him would be humiliating.

But they need to put that thinking aside now. He’s a nice guy, a good manager for a small club, but he’s not a Chelsea manager.  

[Reddish-Blue 2,489]

2 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Other than thinking the players will have a mental reset in the summer knowing every team starts from scratch, I really don’t understand this idea that giving Potter another whole summer to turn things around is what the ownership wants. What will actually change? It’s not as though he isn’t getting training time currently. He has had entire weeks free multiple times. He’s had a whole World Cup break to work. The players are certainly not burnt out because we rotate more than any club in Europe AND he gives them multiple days off after some games.

It’s just like they’re trying desperately to save face now. They don’t want to sack 2 managers in the same season having only been here for 1 year. They chose Potter as their man, brought in his entire structure from Brighton, and spent a massive fortune for him. They clearly feel that sacking him would be humiliating.

But they need to put that thinking aside now. He’s a nice guy, a good manager for a small club, but he’s not a Chelsea manager.  

It would be more humiliating for the new ownership group if this club went into a relegation battle...because based on form that is where we are headed. 

We have the worst form line in the Premier League at the moment and every game looks like 3 points to the opposition and Potter hasn't done a single thing to change it.  

Tuchel, Mourinho, Conte would be going ballistic in the training ground, on the sidelines, watching this rubbish game after game...but Potter is as calm as can be, like he's managing a mid table side, not a side that just spent all that money in January. 

 

[Vegetable 830]

5 minutes ago, Pizy said:

They clearly feel that sacking him would be humiliating.

Not like sticking with him and his Brighton staff wouldn't 😅

[lucio 5,418]

How is he still employed 

[Special Juan 28,094]

His comments are fucking beyond madness, he's talking as if we had lost 1 game and he keeps saying the same things.

I cannot believe he's still here

[Pizy 18,850]

26 minutes ago, Reddish-Blue said:

It would be more humiliating for the new ownership group if this club went into a relegation battle...because based on form that is where we are headed. 

We have the worst form line in the Premier League at the moment and every game looks like 3 points to the opposition and Potter hasn't done a single thing to change it.  

Tuchel, Mourinho, Conte would be going ballistic in the training ground, on the sidelines, watching this rubbish game after game...but Potter is as calm as can be, like he's managing a mid table side, not a side that just spent all that money in January. 

 

Exactly. We need a manager to come in and have some balls. Have a personality. Kick these players’ asses. Someone who will demand the highest standard like the other elite managers in this league do. Create an atmosphere where every player has to always be at their best if they want to be in the XI.

We have a handful of players right now who continue to get picked when they’ve been shocking for months and months. Players in horrible form get picked match after match because there’s zero accountability and there’s no fire from the manager.

[Costa19 858]

You could buy the thesis of Potter ”building for the future” IF he was stuborn with playing the same players that are believed to be the future even if they performed bad and/or the results were bad. For exemple: Mudryk, Madueke, Enzo, Hall, Fofana (striker) etc.
 
The problem is that he changes the team every week with incomprehensible team selections when he picks Ziyech, Havertz, RLC every fecking game. I mean, do you prefer to lose 2-0 with RLC jogging around when he likely will be gone in the summer or to lose with Lewis Hall in the midfield getting better and better every game also collecting enormous experience? 
 
Is Potter building for the future with his team selections or is he panicking lately? 
 

 
 

[Fulham Broadway 17,299]

Maybe they are just looking at returns - not sure about others here, but every day I get at least one e mail from the club, buy this shit, endless competitions etc

End of the day the buck stops with the investment consortium. Not just LA Dodgers part owner Boehly. Although he is the face of the group,  investment firm Clearlake Capital, and other deep-pocketed partners, including Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss, and Boehly's Dodgers partner Mark Walter. 

Not sure who is taking executive decisions, but they all need to realise Potter is just an employee, and just as a player doesnt perform he's dropped,  the same should apply to the manager. 

Running out of time, rot is setting in

 

[lucio 5,418]

1 minute ago, Costa19 said:

You could buy the thesis of Potter ”building for the future” IF he was stuborn with playing the same players that are believed to be the future even if they performed bad and/or the results were bad. For exemple: Mudryk, Madueke, Enzo, Hall, Fofana (striker) etc.
 
The problem is that he changes the team every week with incomprehensible team selections when he picks Ziyech, Havertz, RLC every fecking game. I mean, do you prefer to lose 2-0 with RLC jogging around when he likely will be gone in the summer or to lose with Lewis Hall in the midfield getting better and better every game also collecting enormous experience? 
 
Is Potter building for the future with his team selections or is he panicking lately? 
 

 
 

There is no future so long as he's in charge. He'd just be developing players for the new coach 

[Special Juan 28,094]

Matt Law

Chelsea owners continue to back Potter but there is now growing concern that the next two games will be make or break for him. It's not just the owners faith that is being tested either.

[Fulham Broadway 17,299]

Over 35 000 signed Sack Potter petition. Do it for the club

Petition · GRAHAM POTTER TO BE SACKED · Change.org

[Tomo 21,751]

3 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Over 35 000 signed Sack Potter petition. Do it for the club

Petition · GRAHAM POTTER TO BE SACKED · Change.org

How many of those 35,000 will be lining Boehly's pockets (therefore effectively paying Potter's wages) in 5 days time?

If fans really want a manager change than the strongest message that could be sent is a half empty Stamford Bridge.

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

Don’t think Boehly & co understand that they all look like fools for backing this guy as long as they have/are willing to. Can’t be serious about this season or next if they want to give Potter time. Like at all. Maybe he will get it right by 2030…..

Edited February 27, 2023 by OneMoSalah

[milka 3,390]

Abramovich, who mercilessly sacked Mourinho two times  at the start of his fourth season and the middle of the second spell , Ancelotti just a season after the double in the Goodison tunnel 

What would happen to Potter these days under Abramovich

 

[Special Juan 28,094]

Just now, milka said:

Abramovich, who mercilessly sacked Mourinho two times  at the start of his fourth season and the middle of the second spell , Ancelotti just a season after the double in the Goodison tunnel 

What would happen to Potter these days under Abramovich

 

He's of been on the dole 3 weeks ago