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[Albion] Gut feeling - RDZ staying or going after this season?
- Thread starter Flounce
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I would love it, I mean really love it, if the RDZ who first walked into the club, comes back in July.
The man we've turned him into - not so much.
The man we've turned him into - not so much.
Not as laughable as the over-analysis of DeZ looking a bit tired and grumpy from time to time
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
If we stick 5 past Liverpool, we're probably drawing 5-all or losing.
It’s a bit annoying that we seem to turn all our managers into misery’s !!
I’m guessing we must lose out on loads of targets as we don’t stretch the budget in any shape or form. But surely it can’t be that bad managing us.
Win a couple of games and the bridge is in place no more difficult than that. Criticism yeah clearly he didnt like it or cope with it well but imho better than Roberto playing the blame Tony no new signings card any time asked why we lose big against bad teams. Maybe I have thick skin but neither the boos or Potter complaining about it was a big deal imho but clearly that stuck with people. Main reason I dont think Tony is going with Potter again is that the margins would be too slim. Most new managers get the honeymoon phase where all they do is seen as great but Potter would not of had it this time and bad start to his second spell would be turbulent to say the least
Home and Away
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- Sep 18, 2018
- 128
I don't want Potter back. Not because he left us, but because it would be "the safe option". It wouldn't be exciting and new for the players or anybody else for that matter. A bit like P*lace and Hodgson. I'm quite certain he couldn't lift the mood or expectations. Also some of the staff might feel that he's just taking it as a job to do something after being paid huge sums coaching and leaving Ch*lsea.
Imagine NSC if Potter returned, later walking for a 'bigger club job' 
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There'd be lynching parties.
. There'd be lynching parties.
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
exactly we proved when he left we could get an upgrade, we do not need a backward step, we need to improve and that means an upgrade again.
It is not like we are not an attractive prospect to anyone, we are as we know well run, with an improving squad and money to spend if required, we are beholden to know one or FFP.
Good managers will be kicking the door down to come here.
Albion in the north
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Thats exactly how some of our "ITK" supporters behave. Makes them feel important I suppose.
GT49er
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A massive winless and goal-less run like this, you mean? (sorry about the format - the cut and paste was a bit wonky).I absolutely despair of our fanbase sometimes.
De Zerbi, who's been loyal to the club, agreed to a contract where he can only move post season and who got a decimated squad to the last 16 of the Europa League needs to go (based on perceived demeanour at press conferences and a Twitter rumour to sell papers) and the dull yes man who was loyal right up to the point Chelsea flashed their knickers mid-season and then helped them asset strip us needs to come in?
I suppose I could at least go back to sleeping through home games as we go on massive winless and goalless runs again and we can all look forward to finishing 12th.
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Nobby
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It's utterly ridiculous - in the realms of fantasy, Jones
Are you actually being serious?
The reception area at Lancing is equipped with motion-sensor doors, so anyone trying that will probably end up lying flat on their back in the foyer. That's no way to arrive for an interview.
Change at Barnham
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Crazy as it seems, but if Southgate departs the England job after the summer there would be every chance that Graham Potter could be the next England manager.
Making any talk of him returning to Brighton irrelevant.
History has shown how the public treated Bobby Robson, Graham Taylor, Kevin Keegan, Steve McLaren, Roy Hodgson.
He would be walking into a bear pit that would make the Chelsea job seem a breeze.
But I think if Potter was offered the England job he would take it.
Making any talk of him returning to Brighton irrelevant.
History has shown how the public treated Bobby Robson, Graham Taylor, Kevin Keegan, Steve McLaren, Roy Hodgson.
He would be walking into a bear pit that would make the Chelsea job seem a breeze.
But I think if Potter was offered the England job he would take it.
I absolutely despair of our fanbase sometimes.
De Zerbi, who's been loyal to the club, agreed to a contract where he can only move post season and who got a decimated squad to the last 16 of the Europa League needs to go (based on perceived demeanour at press conferences and a Twitter rumour to sell papers) and the dull yes man who was loyal right up to the point Chelsea flashed their knickers mid-season and then helped them asset strip us needs to come in?
I suppose I could at least go back to sleeping through home games as we go on massive winless and goalless runs again and we can all look forward to finishing 12th.
It was alright for you going to away games.
In the calendar year 2021 we didn't witness a single win at the Amex, as I missed Brentford on Boxing Day.
One of the reasons I would be open to Potter returning is the uncomfortable scenario of Roberto moving, Potter getting the England job and Southgate looking for a PL team which could well be us
Home and Away
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I think Eddie is going to be the next England manager after Gareth. I expect they won't go for a foreign option anytime soon. Gareth to ManU or to become some sort of big wig at FA.
Potter will become a PL manager again, but I don't think it's going to be us. I don't think Bloom is ready to risk the mood to become "stagnant" here. Surely he's nice, polite and corporate, but lacking fire, enthusiasm and "minerals". Nottingham, P*lace, Everton for Potter depending on who's staying up.
Potter will become a PL manager again, but I don't think it's going to be us. I don't think Bloom is ready to risk the mood to become "stagnant" here. Surely he's nice, polite and corporate, but lacking fire, enthusiasm and "minerals". Nottingham, P*lace, Everton for Potter depending on who's staying up.
Especially when they absolutely know what they are signing up for when they come in.
I was just about to post the very same thing. That spell after Christmas that season was dire.