[Football] Potter [NOT] at Chelsea

[oldboyroy]

Have to say that 'long term project' Toddy banged on about lasted well didn't it! Suppose 7 months is a long time for Chelsea

 

[mwrpoole]

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.

I suspect Chelsea’s timing of this is due to Spurs seeking a new manager now, Chelsea will go for the same managers and no doubt hope they are more attractive proposition than Spurs.

 

[Happy Exile]

Barney Ronay excellent as ever.

"Here, at a club that demands swagger, panache and a little bit of nastiness from its managers, was a coach who looks like he’d say sorry if you stole his watch, who at one point had to defend himself from claims he didn’t become angry enough in a press conference while defending himself for not having become angry enough during a game."

The end of an error for Chelsea: Graham Potter put out of his misery | Barney Ronay

The board makes a good decision by undoing its self-evidently appalling decision to appoint him in the first place

www.theguardian.com

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Barney Ronay excellent as ever.

"Here, at a club that demands swagger, panache and a little bit of nastiness from its managers, was a coach who looks like he’d say sorry if you stole his watch, who at one point had to defend himself from claims he didn’t become angry enough in a press conference while defending himself for not having become angry enough during a game."

The end of an error for Chelsea: Graham Potter put out of his misery | Barney Ronay

The board makes a good decision by undoing its self-evidently appalling decision to appoint him in the first place

www.theguardian.com

That article is spot on.

'Why, really why, would anyone appoint Graham Potter and then make such vigorous attempts to give him the least Graham Potter-like working environment imaginable?'

 

[Russconha]

I don’t think anyone is ‘bullying‘ anyone but your suggestion that Potter just left to get a better paid job, is a gross simplification and overly benign view of what happened so don’t be too surprised if people react negatively - it ignores the fact Potter left smack as a new season was well under way and we were 4th in the league, he took half our back room staff with him, then came back again for our recruitment manager, Paul Winstanley (so 6 members of key staff ) and made several comments about Brighton even after he left that were somewhat belittling as well as ‘promising’, or at least announcing publicly he would like to come back in the January window for Gross, Trossard, Mac Allister and Caicedo and several other top Brighton players. Your comment ignores how much all of that really deeply pissed off most of the fans on NSC and why the ‘vitriol’ it caused is only now being somewhat countered by the fact the bloke‘s just got the sack. So fcuk yeah, Chelsea got rid

PLaying the devil's advocate, it wasn't as simple as taking all the backroom staff. Tony
couldn't guarantee the new manager would want Bruno and Roberts so they went where they knew they had a job. This doesn't make it any easier to digest but there were more decisive factors than Potter stealing them on the dirty.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

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

I think Bloom and Barber will have enough emotional intelligence to not even allow a discussion from the perspective of our fan base on this one.

 

[Lever]

PLaying the devil's advocate, it wasn't as simple as taking all the backroom staff. Tony
couldn't guarantee the new manager would want Bruno and Roberts so they went where they knew they had a job. This doesn't make it any easier to digest but there were more decisive factors than Potter stealing them on the dirty.

We can never know how it all happened but the timing of their exit from our club was as bad as it could get and that's it as far as I am concerned.......

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

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. ****.

I honestly don’t give a flying f*** if this is the media / fan view, there was only one winner in this outcome and it was Brighton Hove Albion, and deep down they all know it.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

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

Or he’s actually very good at his job and won’t let personal relationships cloud his judgment, he’s ruthless but equally this screams as self serving!

 

[South Oz Seagull]

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.

We're far from desperate now and there's no need to re-consider traitors.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

We're far from desperate now and there's no need to re-consider traitors.

Sorry?

I'm not sure I follow you.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

 

[South Oz Seagull]

Sorry?

I'm not sure I follow you.

It's pretty obvious. What's not to follow??

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Birch is in the rudest of health despite having to be revived from a cardiac arrest a few years ago. One of my friends meets up with him once or twice a week

I stand corrected

 

[Commander]

I’m not sure similar teams to us would take him on now.

Looking at the EPL now, clearly he would never come back to us (thankfully), if he were appointed to the likes of Fulham, Brentford even his home city club Villa, the support would be underwhelmed.

As has been said previously the Chelsea experience has really tainted his reputation, variation on a theme, is he a bit like Gus Poyet?

Gus will never get a decent job in this country again.

Absolutely no way. He will easily get another job at a mid to lower end Premier League club. He’ll be back soon.

 

[DataPoint]

I don't understand all the vitriol.

Somebody used to work for BHA. He left for a bigger, what he thought would be a better, and a more well paid job. End of story. It happens all the time. He has now been sacked from that job because his bosses think he failed.

What's the issue here?

Emotion!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

 

[vegster]

I don't understand all the vitriol.

Somebody used to work for BHA. He left for a bigger, what he thought would be a better, and a more well paid job. End of story. It happens all the time. He has now been sacked from that job because his bosses think he failed.

What's the issue here?

I refer you too the old Poyet,Hughton and even Hyypia pro or anti threads that still get brought up from time to time...Football = -/+Opinions × Bitterness.

 

[Mr Phil]

I refer you too the old Poyet,Hughton and even Hyypia pro or anti threads that still get brought up from time to time...Football = -/+Opinions × Bitterness.

Pro Hyypia threads? Surely not

 

[Nobby]

Seems bizarre to me. Just sack Potter and keep the rest (temporarily)? Bit unheard of? Perhaps the pressure/hate just got too much for him.

All very strange
Bjorn and Benny have followed him everywhere and yet they’re still in place.
Very unusual.
Maybe there’s something under the surface here we haven’t got to yet?