[Football] Potter [NOT] at Chelsea

[The Rivet]

For me he threw away a fantastic reputation for money, hope and fate. Then a rotty bit his arse!

 

[Farehamseagull]

The only bad thing about Potter failing there is it gives the media and Chelsea’s vile fans another chance to belittle and talk down about us a club.

According to Miguel Delaney, the step up was too big, Potter needed a middle step . Well considering their 11th and we’re 6th, who the f*** would that be then?! The revolting chavs are only the 4th biggest club in London anyway. ****.

 

[pigcity]

So Bruno to be interim manager/coach!

looks like there is a head of steam giving it to Emma Hayes to the end of the season…..she certainly appears to be the best English manager out there.

Emma Hayes…..got to one womens champions league final. 4-0 down after 23 minutes.

 

[METALMICKY]

Potter strikes me as a fairly cautious bloke, who I don't think would have gone to Chelsea if Abramovich had still been there. Boehly convinced him he would be joining a different organisation with a long term plan. He must have been dreaming about building a long term project.

With the benefit of hindsight, the warning signs were there. Boehly had just binged on players that Tuchel hadn't necessarily wanted, meaning he'd be joining a club with a bloated playing staff and no means to pare it down quickly. He'd previously said that he likes to work with a small squad. Boehly then showed in January that the previous binge wasn't a beginner's error, but a business model. Potter must have realised that he'd been hired as a flavour of the month coach, not as an empire builder. He had players at Brighton like Burn, Gross, Lallana and March who would be willing to adapt as necessary, even during matches, to perform whatever role served the greater aim. That mentality was not established at a club where players were used to competing just as much with their colleagues as with their opponents.

Boehly is an idiot. He's like somebody who bought a workshop that had all the raw materials to build the finest watches. He appointed somebody who, he believed given time, could design and build him a perfect watch and then went out and bought loads of expensive watches and told him his job was to wind them.

Superb analogy!

 

[BrianSwan]

Whoever stays up will have a few fantastic managers to look at.

West Ham you imagine will be comfortable (their squad is too good) - they can look at changing Moyes for Rodgers, Potter, Postecoglu, Slot

A bigger club like Chelsea have free agents in Nagelsmann and Enrique they could take. Exciting times.

 

[BrianSwan]

Potter strikes me as a fairly cautious bloke, who I don't think would have gone to Chelsea if Abramovich had still been there. Boehly convinced him he would be joining a different organisation with a long term plan. He must have been dreaming about building a long term project.

With the benefit of hindsight, the warning signs were there. Boehly had just binged on players that Tuchel hadn't necessarily wanted, meaning he'd be joining a club with a bloated playing staff and no means to pare it down quickly. He'd previously said that he likes to work with a small squad. Boehly then showed in January that the previous binge wasn't a beginner's error, but a business model. Potter must have realised that he'd been hired as a flavour of the month coach, not as an empire builder. He had players at Brighton like Burn, Gross, Lallana and March who would be willing to adapt as necessary, even during matches, to perform whatever role served the greater aim. That mentality was not established at a club where players were used to competing just as much with their colleagues as with their opponents.

Boehly is an idiot. He's like somebody who bought a workshop that had all the raw materials to build the finest watches. He appointed somebody who, he believed given time, could design and build him a perfect watch and then went out and bought loads of expensive watches and told him his job was to wind them.

I think people are forgetting. Boehly didn't spend for the sake of it. HE HAS TO SPEND. It was part of his terms of agreement for the 'cheap' takeover is that he has to put in £1.75 BILLION of his own money into transfer fees/Stadium. That's why he's spent a shit load now and has put them on stupidly long contracts.

 

[Stato]

I think people are forgetting. Boehly didn't spend for the sake of it. HE HAS TO SPEND. It was part of his terms of agreement for the 'cheap' takeover is that he has to put in £1.75 BILLION of his own money into transfer fees/Stadium. That's why he's spent a shit load now and has put them on stupidly long contracts.

Him spending money is not the problem. If you're going to spend big, then you first appoint someone who has a track record of successfully managing big money teams and then you ask them who they want you to buy. Instead he bought loads of random players, then sacked his manager, then appointed one who's track record suggests is good at improving players, not managing stars. Pundits complained that it was hard to understand what Chelsea's plan was under Potter. That was because there was no evidence of joined up thinking between the purchases and the playing style.

 

[kevo]

I seriously doubt Chelsea will try that same route again - can you imagine the reaction of the fans !

Agree. They are much more likely to go for a big name manager used to dealing with top players and their egos. It would be far too much of a risk after the failure of the Potter experiment.

I think Spurs however could go for RDZ, especially if Chelsea nab their favoured candidate.

 

[OzMike]

Will Tony say, ' I told you so '.

 

[OzMike]

Bruno must have impressed, but he will be blown away as well.

 

[OzMike]

Winstanley sounds like a peice of work, Tony could have been secretly pleased to get rid.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

What an absolute shitshow.

On a human level I feel for Potter, the last six months couldn't have gone any worse.

On a footballing level...actually there's not much in terms of Potter. I've moved on and don't really care about him. In terms of Chelsea though...

The worst bit is that we lost Bruno and a fantastic goalkeeping coach for nothing. I hope this opens the door for a swift return for Bruno although I don't know what role he would get or accept with us.

 

[Solid at the back]

The worst bit is that we lost Bruno and a fantastic goalkeeping coach for nothing. I hope this opens the door for a swift return for Bruno although I don't know what role he would get or accept with us.

No thanks.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

No thanks.

What Bruno gave to this club on and off the pitch outweighs, in my mind, running off to Chelsea.

That said I don't think you have to worry. He left to further his coaching career, he won't be coming back to work with the U23's or for Albion in the community. Which is a shame because he did magnificent work for Albion in the community.

 

[Loadicus Trux]

It would be quite exciting if he ended up at Palace. The atmosphere at the matches between us would be at a phenomenal level. He would obviously have to fail miserably there as well though.

 

[Lever]

I wanted Potter to fail at Chelsea partly because of the manner and timing of his exit and partly because Chelsea is such an obnoxious Club.

Now I hope he enjoys spending the huge pile of lucre he has amassed.... and that he enjoys success with his new club/s; always ending up just below us....

 

[London Irish]

Of course it was hilarious he failed, this is the stuff of football comedy and we should drink it in. No contradiction holding that opinion and also thinking Potter is a good manager and a nice ish guy, tho I never really took to him for some reason I can’t quite put my finger on, it’s not the fact that he was quiet, probably more that his football was a little dull. Can we get Bruno and Roberts back now

 

[Lever]

Just a final thought. Wherever Potter goes I hope the fans will know the history of their club and that he enjoys the 'easy life' there that he spurned to go to that poisonous West London place.....

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Why would Potter read a fans forum of a club he was with for awhile then walked out on? He’s got a family and had an all consuming job.

It cannot possibly be bullying.

Just age-old football schadenfreude.

Nah, not bullying. For bullying to occur the person being bullied needs to actually be on the receiving end. I can't imagine Potter is reading NSC right now. It's just schadenfreude.

Plagiarism? Lol!

 

[sparkie]

So will they now come sniffing for De Zerbi?

People say this but I think they will be looking in a bigger pond than just the bhafc one. Once bitten etc. I think they won't repeat poach so soon. It shows a lack of ideas tbh.