Graham Potter Thread

[Pizy 18,846]

How in the hell have I woken up the next day to see Potter is still in the job? Is Boehly going to wait until we’re in real, serious danger before acting?

There is still time under a new manager to salvage something from this nightmare of a season and get Europa League football next year if that’s something the ownership desires. But if we continue on with this manager nothing is going to change.

[Special Juan 28,087]

4 hours ago, Alabama said:

Can we bring some cfc women players into the first team - Kerr and James...Oh never mind Potter would transform them into shit players after playing couple of games...

The women would beat us

[Vegetable 830]

I'd really like someone to explain me the argument that "Potter is building for future" stands in opposition of " getting results now". I mean… wtf is he supposedly building here? The only sign of "build" is absolute lack of mentality seen in players and worryingly deterioration of some of world's greatest talent.

No chemistry, no particular system, no particular style of play, getting tactically battered against even lowest-ranking opposition, same squad, where people eyeing for exit are starters, desperate changing things around… Youth was only played when GP was absolutely forced to do so. It doesn't look like "developing" anything for shit. What is not surprising giving Potter's history - pushing group of low-level players to achieve lower-mid-level of game is entirely different beast, than managing elite club rebuild.

Where is that "great eye for talent" that was supposed to cover his lack of ability? Our coaching staff doesn't really look like providing the top training in league tbh, let alone the kindergarten level of tactical sophistication we present now. 

Not to mention Potter's media presence is utterly frustrating, with him being super cocky and arrogant only when it comes to defend his incompetence, not where it would be actually be welcomed.

Aside of lack of elite manager on the market bar Tuchel, I'm seriously starting to think that Boehly is trying to view football through baseball glasses - in "american" sports teams are relying on individual talent far more and manager may actually be somewhat superficial figure. But he had enough time to notice it doesn't quite work cause' getting mid-table manager is giving you mid-table results, no shit, how came, and "removing player power" is bs idea in top team. I'd also really like to know how Boehly sees forcing sub-par, non-likeable manager having nothing to do with Chelsea, without any achievements and on a good way to ruin the club on fans for years to come as a great move sport and PR wise. I wonder why he didn't go for Bielsa, as given this line of thought, his Leicester campaign makes him greatest manager in history of sport.

At this point I'd have nothing against appointing U21 staff as caretakers. At least our academy staff is able to win games, you know. 

Edited February 27, 2023 by Vegetable

[Pizy 18,846]

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 2,488]

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 28,087]

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 18,846]

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 28,087]

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 28,087]

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