We would not have finished 6th with Potter, I think that needs putting to bed. He beat a dire Leicester City with a cardboard cut out in goal, don't think he had consistency in his locker. He never got Solly scoring like Roberto did.
I think we all did. German international from Dortmund. Must be good, right? And the recruitment team does invest that time in all our signings, which was one of my points.
Indeed, Leicester is often mentioned but not the shit show of a game before.
A shit show against Fulham is something we have done since we turned them over at will before reaching the PL, regardless of who the manager is, as are games against Villa, again whomever is managing us.
I mean, there's cherry picking your facts and there's whatever the hell this is.
I agree with 95% of what you’ve been saying on this thread but that part in bold is as much to do with how infrequently clubs will approach another PL club for their manager mid-season as it is Potter’s lack of loyalty/willingness to jump ship.
I mean, there's cherry picking your facts and there's whatever the hell this is.
"We were shit under Potter. No, not in his last game, the one before. Don't look at any games further back than that though, just his penultimate game."
Well if we're doing this then potter had 180 minutes against a team who conceded 84 goals in a single season and scored, thats right, 0 goals.And brought up to make Potter look worse against RDZ - a man who (despite all the injuries) has just taken this really good side containing NINE full internationals (only JPVH and Baleba yet to make their senior International debuts), to the worst team in the league and scraped a draw, via a fluke own goal
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Oh don't get me wrong, I hoped the understandably in brackets gave some indication that I think in hindsight it was a move, for selfish reasons, he couldn't turn down. My point is more that it is not a done thing in modern football and whether it was his fault or Chelsea's, it was potentially a completely derailing move for the Albion, and was crap for the fans regardless of who is actually at fault (both Potter and Boehly imo).
Statistically Sheffield United are the worst team in the League and we whopped ten past them away (and failed to beat them at home thanks to Dahoud, ironically).And brought up to make Potter look worse against RDZ - a man who (despite all the injuries) has just taken this really good side containing NINE full internationals (only JPVH and Baleba yet to make their senior International debuts), to the worst team in the league and scraped a draw, via a fluke own goal
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Roberto first said he would be top player for us then said he would be great for us because fitting our style of play. Top and great sounds like a key player. Of course the recruitment team need to ok it but clear from everything said the signing was Roberto´s initiative he even said many times before we signed him that he wanted him
This is also a squad with (v Villa 3-0 loss in 2022) had 7 full internationals, 2 former England internationals and Premier League Winners, with the remaining 2 players being a spanish U21 and a former french U21. As well as arguably the most talented player of entire history sat on the bench, because he was too scared to use him.
I'm NOT 'doing this'. I was simply trying to illustrate that anyone highlighting ONE single game to make a point, was pointless.
I thought you said in your previous post that Potter didn't have consistency in his locker?
What you I and many feel about Potter leaving is 100% the reason people can´t see any flaw in Roberto and his management we´re likely to end up on a less than 1 point per game average over our last 32 games with a squad far from as bad as some including our manager say it is. He´s a small man with small mentality pretending to be ambitious and clever. This is what he said when we won against Tottenham in December
Not many results in there to match the stuffings we’ve had this season alone though, and the goals for in the last few months are very similar
Have you noticed the costly mistakes Dunk has made of late, I’m not sure RDZ has control over that.And brought up to make Potter look worse against RDZ - a man who (despite all the injuries) has just taken this really good side containing NINE full internationals (only JPVH and Baleba yet to make their senior International debuts), to the worst team in the league and scraped a draw, via a fluke own goal
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A key player is one you absolutely rely on - so in our case Dunk, Gross, Mitoma, Joao Pedro. One of those has missed almost the whole of 2024, one has missed two months of it and the other two are knackered as a result.
