[Albion] Which ex manager do you have the least respect for?

[Justice]

League one relegation zone to champions to Championship playoffs.

That was Poyet, Potter hasn’t had such success in his career.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

That was Poyet, Potter hasn’t had such success in his career.

Memo to self, don’t speed read posts! Thanks.

 

[Justice]

Memo to self, don’t speed read posts! Thanks.

I do that plenty

 

[ozzygull]

It’s Potter for me.

Poyet in the interviews I have seen since he has left has always been incredibly positive about Brighton and TB and it seems genuine.

Potter on the other hand has just continued to say snide remarks about the club. The positive things that I have heard him say, don’t come across as honest.

De Zerbi was just a nut job from the beginning and whatever entered his head came out of his mouth. I kind of still miss his knee slides and side line antics. His leaving speech on the pitch when he left praised TB so that was OK with me.

 

[Cheggers]

Poyet, although Graham “Easy Life” Potter runs him a close second. Way to let your old bosses know that you were coasting in the role.

If Potter had some emotional intelligence he may have realised that the easy life here was in fact a secure and supportive working environment that provided him with the foundations to be successful. But he shat all over us. What a w#nker.

 

[Justice]

It’s Potter for me.

Poyet in the interviews I have seen since he has left has always been incredibly positive about Brighton and TB and it seems genuine.

Potter on the other hand has just continued to say snide remarks about the club. The positive things that I have heard him say, don’t come across as honest.

De Zerbi was just a nut job from the beginning and whatever entered his head came out of his mouth. I kind of still miss his knee slides and side line antics. His leaving speech on the pitch when he left praised TB so that was OK with me.

It seems strange not backing a top manager like RDZ and then giving a rookie to date almost £300m. Italians are crazy people one of my customers own Italian restaurants here and in Milan he shouts and screams one minute the next totally relaxed. I wouldn’t read anything into stroppy pressers.

 

[el punal]

Those of us with longer memories will remember a certain Brian Clough using us as the proverbial waiting room to further his career. Read the excellent book ‘Bloody Southerners’ by Spencer Vignes for the full story.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Those of us with longer memories will remember a certain Brian Clough using us as the proverbial waiting room to further his career. Read the excellent book ‘Bloody Southerners’ by Spencer Vignes for the full story.

See post 7.

 

[el punal]

It seems strange not backing a top manager like RDZ and then giving a rookie to date almost £300m. Italians are crazy people one of my customers own Italian restaurants here and in Milan he shouts and screams one minute the next totally relaxed. I wouldn’t read anything into stroppy pressers.

My son in law discussed the merits of RDZ with me recently having listened to a revealing podcast about the way Tony Bloom and the club have a clear strategy on taking the Albion forward. In a nutshell the club prefer to take a measured but progressive approach with the minimum amount of risk. RDZ, after taking us to 6th in the PL and European competition, wanted to immediately capitalise on this success with a blitz of big signings and the risks that go with it. Needless to say this was the complete opposite of the club’s strategy. Bloom and the board dictate policy and Roberto didn’t agree hence the sad departure of one of the Albion’s best and most exciting coaches.

 

[Mustafa II]

It seems strange not backing a top manager like RDZ and then giving a rookie to date almost £300m. Italians are crazy people one of my customers own Italian restaurants here and in Milan he shouts and screams one minute the next totally relaxed. I wouldn’t read anything into stroppy pressers.

Club knows something that we don't.

Suspect RDZ was 'anti-algorithm' and demanded his own players like Fati and Igor.

Hurzeler is a more modern and probably entirely on board with algorithm.

 

[Weststander]

My son in law discussed the merits of RDZ with me recently having listened to a revealing podcast about the way Tony Bloom and the club have a clear strategy on taking the Albion forward. In a nutshell the club prefer to take a measured but progressive approach with the minimum amount of risk. RDZ, after taking us to 6th in the PL and European competition, wanted to immediately capitalise on this success with a blitz of big signings and the risks that go with it. Needless to say this was the complete opposite of the club’s strategy. Bloom and the board dictate policy and Roberto didn’t agree hence the sad departure of one of the Albion’s best and most exciting coaches.

Then weeks later made a blitz of big signings.

 

[el punal]

Then weeks later made a blitz of big signings.

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I think you’ll find RDZ was insisting on this at the end 2022/23 season. In the following season it became apparent that he was not in favour of the club’s policy of recruitment. Whatever, it resulted in the club’s way or the highway. He chose or was directed to the latter.

 

[JBizzle]

It seems strange not backing a top manager like RDZ and then giving a rookie to date almost £300m. Italians are crazy people one of my customers own Italian restaurants here and in Milan he shouts and screams one minute the next totally relaxed. I wouldn’t read anything into stroppy pressers.

Who says we wouldn't have signed these players under RDZ? They weren't signed for Hürzeler, they were signed because they were fantastic players, available at a price we were willing to pay.

The question is whether RDZ would have wanted them.

 

[Weststander]

I think you’ll find RDZ was insisting on this at the end 2022/23 season. In the following season it became apparent that he was not in favour of the club’s policy of recruitment. Whatever, it resulted in the club’s way or the highway. He chose or was directed to the latter.

Do we know that as fact?

I thought he openly pushed for some recruits in the January window.

 

[Justice]

Who says we wouldn't have signed these players under RDZ? They weren't signed for Hürzeler, they were signed because they were fantastic players, available at a price we were willing to pay.

The question is whether RDZ would have wanted them.

Interestingly RDZ spoke to Wieffer in January about his role on the pitch according to the player.

 

[Justice]

Who says we wouldn't have signed these players under RDZ? They weren't signed for Hürzeler, they were signed because they were fantastic players, available at a price we were willing to pay.

The question is whether RDZ would have wanted them.

If that was the case you can understand why it was a bit scatter gun, players are normally signed to fit the preferred managers system.

 

[kojak]

Nah, life's too short to be worrying about this shit.

I am looking forward to next season. Under Fab.

It's not though really is it

Unless your Tony Curtis

 

[nickjhs]

Ooops I pressed RDZ by mistake. Meant to vote for Potter

 

[Jeremiah]

Potter by a mile.

I think this should be opened to other clubs. Which would bring me to Roy Hodgson, the biggest fraud there’s ever been, literally a walking and talking example of the Peter Principal. Followed closely by ‘Arry’.

I always liked Roy at Palace. He got them playing some awful stuff and hovering about the relegation zone. None of this Cup winning stuff from Roy

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Respect them all for what they did when they were here. I don’t have levels of respect, either they deserve it or don’t.