Graham Potter Thread

[TheHulk 1,877]

Matt should seek help.

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[MoroccanBlue 5,318]

37 minutes ago, TheHulk said:

Not if he gets him going and plays him properly.

Oh give it a rest. Sick of hearing this. 3 managers before Nagelsmann couldn't get Havertz to improve. 

Bloke is simply not made for the Premier League. 

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[Vegetable 830]

10 minutes ago, TheHulk said:

Matt should seek help.

He will heal some day for sure.

However I wonder whether Leicester are actually aware of their interest in Potter or it's just a PR stunt of Law-like folks. Not like his Chelsea stint was a best ad for his services and Leicester is still bigger shoes, than Brighton, with rather ambitious take on things. 

[Costa19 858]

7 minutes ago, TheHulk said:

 

Yes please 😚

[Pizy 18,401]

Honestly, I’d sign up for tiki taka football as long as we signed a bloody striker in the summer. At least we’d have some structure to our play, patterns that can be repeated game after game, moment after moment in matches. If Enrique is the guy I wouldn’t mind boring Barca style smothering teams with aggressive possession and pressing but we need an elite finisher for that to work. He had prime Suarez as his #9 during those successful years. Not anyone near Suarez’s level available to replicate that here.

[gdlk 272]

I guess you havent watched Spain under him, he was using false 9.. 

And if they admired him so much why didnt we went for him but it was Potter. 

Also cant remember a young player who developed under him

Edited April 3, 2023 by gdlk

[MoroccanBlue 5,318]

14 minutes ago, gdlk said:

I guess you havent watched Spain under him, he was using false 9.. 

And if they admired him so much why didnt we went for him but it was Potter. 

Also cant remember a young player who developed under him

The alternative is Morata though....

Potter was chosen by Boehly and Eghbali because they were probably sold on the idea Potter was the next big thing. I doubt we appoint Potter had Vivell, Shields, Stewart, etc had been at the club. 

You could say Umtiti before his knee injury. Think Barca have been pretty poor in the market during his tenure, and La Masia was a little stale. 

[OneMoSalah 8,783]

51 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

The alternative is Morata though....

Potter was chosen by Boehly and Eghbali because they were probably sold on the idea Potter was the next big thing. I doubt we appoint Potter had Vivell, Shields, Stewart, etc had been at the club. 

You could say Umtiti before his knee injury. Think Barca have been pretty poor in the market during his tenure, and La Masia was a little stale. 

If Enrique isn’t given control of transfers and could figure out a way to actually play non boring football in the final third, it would be good. But the likelihood is he will want a huge say, as he did at Roma and Barca and likely replicate that boring shite that Spain played. 

[Strike 7,249]

10 hours ago, Gundalf said:

Knowing the diva soft brat ass players we have this might actually become a problem. 

Yup the Potter appointment did not factor in the fact that it’s not just a job where you’re coaching talented players but also managing egos, convincing top players of your selections. 

[cosmicway 1,333]

I had a brief look at the premiership table.
We have conceded 29 goals. At the top Arsenal 27, City 26, Newcastle 19, Spurs 41, United 37.
The top two are just a little bit better defensively, Newcastle is a sort of odd man out with their 41-19, the others worse.
So with this defense we could be even first in the table. It's true.
The problem is upfront. Only 29 as opposed to Arsenal's 70, City's 71.
So Chelsea is a team without attack really.
From the new players Joao creates some good impressions but only some, Mudryk is so far a 100% failure. Maybe he has a future and we will be praising him later on but so far 100% fail.
But the disease is we are a side without attack.

Edited April 4, 2023 by cosmicway

[bigbluewillie 1,859]

Couldn't be happier the statue has gone.

Don't rush into appointing a new manager, our season is fucked.

Wait for a new manager for next season.

[Strike 7,249]

11 hours ago, Fernando said:

I get Nagelsmann but why Enrique? Total clueless with Spain at the world cup. 

I'm intested in knowing why people not big on Pochetino. The owner clearly wants long term as well youth in the mix. And Pochetino is perfect with that. 

Plus with Enzo in the lineup I'm sure Pochetino would love to work him. 

I see what Todd wants and to me Pochetino ticks all the boxes. 

They had dropped in quality by the 2022 WC - Still managed a 7-0 win in the opening game. But I liked his Spain team. They had a good 2021 Euros and were the better side in the semifinal vs Italy that went to penalties.

 

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

12 hours ago, Fernando said:

I get Nagelsmann but why Enrique? Total clueless with Spain at the world cup. 

I'm intested in knowing why people not big on Pochetino. The owner clearly wants long term as well youth in the mix. And Pochetino is perfect with that. 

Plus with Enzo in the lineup I'm sure Pochetino would love to work him. 

I see what Todd wants and to me Pochetino ticks all the boxes. 

Agree.

[Cosmin 2,484]

What really bothers me is that there is no obvious solution. Every single manager considered for the position has major flaws. There are some of them that would've been perfect in the Abramovich era (Enrique, Pochettino, Spaletti), but I cannot see them being a good fit now. And it's all because of the mistake that the Potter project was.

I won't be a hypocrite and say that I didn't want Potter as soon as I heard Tuchel was gone. I did. But it was not my responsability to know better. It was the board's. They messed it up and now we look like clowns. It's pure and unprecedented chaos. It's impossible to say, in this situation, that a certain manager is the perfect fit for us. There is too much of a mess to be fixed.

Anyone that is chosen will come with a huge risk. Not to mention the pressure that will be put on the new manager and on the board. Very, very difficult task. To be 100% honest, if I was a manager, I would accept to start working for Chelsea officially, only once this season is over. In the meantime, start planning, decide who's gone in the summer, who your targets are and so on.

[Jype 6,398]

1 hour ago, Strike said:

They had dropped in quality by the 2022 WC - Still managed a 7-0 win in the opening game. But I liked his Spain team. They had a good 2021 Euros and were the better side in the semifinal vs Italy that went to penalties.

The opening game was against Costa Rica though.

And that was the only game they won at the tournament, having drawn against Germany and losing to both Japan and Morocco. Overall they were mediocre as fuck and while the squad was definitely worse than some of the Spain teams in the past they still seriously underperformed under Enrique at the World Cup.