I've never really given much thought to win percentage as a stat (no idea what typical percentages are) but my gut instinct is that winning one in three for a club our size in the PL, who finished 17th the year before, is ok?
If you recall our final 9 games in 2018/19, the transformation in 2019/20 was stark. Even in 2020/21 with covid distruption and some frustrating results, we won at St James Park, Villa Park, Anfield, double of Leeds, beat Spurs and Man City.
We finished 17th in the season before Potter arrived; during Potter's last full season, we finished 9th. That is quite an improvement, isn't it?
Wouldn’t you say RDZ is doing a better job this season with a very poor midfield. Potter had Mac, Moises, Biss & Mwepu and finished 9th. We’ve seen what RDZ achieved with just two of those midfielders.
It rmains to be seen. This season has been a bit patchy and I hope we finish 9th or higher but I am starting to have my doubts with RDZ's all round ability.
If that's the case then he's right to steer well clear of them.
I’m not considering it as a competition, I think that both managers have done incredibly well at Brighton.
RDZ has Joao Pedro, Ferguson, Welbeck and Ansu Fati. Potter had Maupay and Welbeck.
Are they that impatient?
They have been very patient by the standards of most big clubs but I think that will change now. By all accounts, while the Glazers were running things they didn't really care that much how they performed on the pitch as long as commercially they were doing well but Radcliffe and Brailsford etc will not put up with poor performance for long.
Last season he didn’t. He had Fergie & Welbz.
But that's irrelevant and not the point you were making - last season he still had fully developed Caicedo for a whole season and Mac Allister?
I don’t why it’s so hard to admit RDZ got hold of that squad and supercharged it to a level none of us not even Bloom expected.
One of them I would think, can’t seem them paying £3m to £5m a year which i suspect he will demand going forward
I don't see why it's so hard for you to accept that de Zerbi took over a very good team, that was in a very good place, that Potter's good work had got them to.
