Didnt have a problem with Potter leaving and wont have a problem when RDZ goes theyre all careerists and while it would be nice if they supported the club forever like we do it isnt realistic. If Liverpool or Barca or anyone offer Roberto a new glorious job he cant just say no Ill go next year instead. They need to take the chances when they come unfortunately. Klopp had the Liverpool job for nine years and if they do the right call it could take another nine years before Roberto gets the question again. At that point hell be in his mid 50s and less attractive to progressive clubs
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[Albion] Gut feeling - RDZ staying or going after this season?
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Flounce
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Because it would have been made very clear to him when he arrived about how we operate, arrogant of him to think one decent 3/4 season gives him the right to make demands and then moan when it doesn’t happen. Maybe he should jump to a “big” club, he’d be sacked in less than six months if he continued in the way he’s behaved, with his sniping, since January, just imo
The injuries and failures of Dahoud and to a lesser degree Fati are not down to Bloom and to expect TB to open the wallet wide enough to satisfy RDZ’s demands because of them is unreasonable, again just imo
jonny.rainbow
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- Oct 29, 2005
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I worry far less about losing RDZ to Liverpool than I do about that fact that our key players such as van Hecke, Mitoma and Jason Steele will likely soon follow him.
That is an odd take, after all, staying would go against RDZ MO.
With GPott we had 3 seasons of dull, monotonous drivel punctuated by occasional moments of pure ecstasy (the title of my sex tape) and stuck by him.
Even against West Ham when at halftime the team looked like anything other than Top 10'ers.
Then seemingly it all came together.
At which point the couldn't run away fast enough, the moment he caught glimpse of the barmaids ankle (the sequel).
For a few weeks GPott owed us, right up until the point we realised we'd seriously upgraded.
Hometownglory
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What I don't understand about all these rumours of clubs having talks with RDZ or at planning too in the coming weeks. Don't they first need to ask Bloom for permission first a.k.a like Chelsea did with Potter?
That’s not how I saw Potter reign at all. We played some lovely stuff which was a huge upgrade on the awful second season under Hughton. We also had some fantastic wins in his first two seasons, Anfield, Man City, Spurs etc . Then in his third season we really clicked towards the end. That run of beating Arsenal, Spurs away then thrashing Man Inited was phenomenal.
He left us flying high, scoring goals and in the Champions league spots. According to Barber in that podcast Potter had been approached a number of times and Chelsea was the first time he ‘took the call’.
Less than two seasons to me is totally disrespectful to our club.
P.s. that sex tape name was pure gold!!
Potter left us in Champion league spot only as it was so early in the season. No way was he keeping us there. I also don’t think we would have got as high as 6th. De Zerbi changed the mentality.
Sure, obviously I'm grandstanding for the crowd a little, but to leave the moment it all finally clicks has to be way worse than appointing a serial leaver only for them to leave (and certainly act like they really want to leave).
I can't reply to comments along the lines of 'he wasn't backed in January' with 'nobody is backed in January, that's not what the club does'.
Only to then be upset were Souness' take proven to be correct (on it's very basic level)
Silverhatch
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Of course they do. It's all f***ing made up bollocks. And RDZ is under contract.
Justice
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That first season under Potter was horrific
Baldseagull
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I think there is something in this, but I also think De Zerbi may be starting to recognise it and might need to change something in himself or his methods. If that's true it makes more sense for him to stay here with players he knows, than to move on.
No chance.
Ferguson absolutely screwed Utd with his desperate attempt to squeeze out one last title.
The squad he left behind wasn't good enough for National League let alone Premier League.
Klipperty would had done exactly the same had he left last season.
Instead going now, he's done the rebuild, has an abundance of yoof and leaving them with only 2 (massive) potential holes to fill Salah and VVD.
Media had us down for relegation ahead of that season and we stayed up while removing a lot of deadwood struggle to see it as horrific
BiffyBoy100
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Jason Steele to Liverpool
The only time that happens is when I take over Liverpool on Football Manager and buy him off us for 100m.
It really wasn’t.
He came in and the change was instant. Watford away first game, won 3-0. Two strikers off the bench at 1-0. Both scored. That set the tone.
We played lovely football in the majority of his games in charge, yes even in most of the games during the bad runs. There was only the odd game here and there where there wasn’t a decent performance and plenty of “big chances” to win games. The finishing let him down big time.
And if you actually think it was horrific then surely the season before under Hughton was even more horrific?
fly high
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I'm sure when he first arrived he said something like 'in the end players find me too intense if I stay too long'.
fly high
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They have made some odd signings in the past but this would be the weirdestJason Steele to Liverpool
The only time that happens is when I take over Liverpool on Football Manager and buy him off us for 100m.
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