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[Albion] Graham Potter joins on four-year deal
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Southwest Seagull
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- Jul 3, 2013
- 156
Or he's doing what TB does, trying to make sure we get value for money.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
You clearly know nothing of the Jewish mentality (and that is in no way intended as a knock btw)
forumwayseagull
Well-known member
Its always like this....never pay over the odds....Never sell too cheap etc....
If we want him we pay up....
if he wants to come we pay going rate..
For once being in the PL we have the position/wealth and status to be an attractive proposition ....big difference to years gone by when all our best managers walked..
Johnny RoastBeef
These aren't the players you're looking for.
- Jan 11, 2016
- 3,158
There’s a difference between quibbling and negotiating. why waste money?
macbeth
Dismembered
Talk about adding 2 and 2 together and getting 5.....
darkwolf666
Well-known member
Think that’s a very fair and considered account of the way things panned out - well put!
- May 8, 2018
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I tried to get EAT to bring back the BLT to their core menu, deaf ears!
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B-right-on
Living the dream
Who says he is quibbling? These negotiations take time. Its only been 24 hrs. Jeez....
darkwolf666
Well-known member
Why?
Nobby
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- Sep 29, 2007
- 2,621
Graham Potter
Just googled Östersunds FK. Finances
First link is to an investigation into the Chairman there for alleged financial irregularities.
I’m not sure who the investigative reporter is, could be fake news.
I was just interested into what sort of investment helped (or hindered) Graham Potter in the meteoric rise of that football club.
Apologies if it’s been posted before
Just googled Östersunds FK. Finances
First link is to an investigation into the Chairman there for alleged financial irregularities.
I’m not sure who the investigative reporter is, could be fake news.
I was just interested into what sort of investment helped (or hindered) Graham Potter in the meteoric rise of that football club.
Apologies if it’s been posted before
- May 8, 2018
- 9,262
We would have hoofed at pass 4
What a loverly goal
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- May 8, 2018
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Need to be taller to make those type of passes work
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Whitechapel
Famous Last Words
I use another forum which is for fans of all teams, and this is what a Swansea fan had to say about Potter when he was brought up.
“On the face of it we were a relegated Premier League side, and should have had it in us to make a stronger push to get back to the Premier League but whilst Stoke and West Brom backed their managers, our owners did the complete opposite.
£5 million or so spent, all on youngsters, whilst we brought in £40 million, let another three first teamers go for free and loaned out a further £66 million of Premier League signings that went on loan. Our squad got absolutely decimated:
- All of our strikers from last year were sold or let go (Abraham, Baston, A. Ayew, J. Ayew, Bony), with nobody signed.
- Four of our five centre halves from last year were sold (Fernandez, Mawson, Bartley, Amat), again with nobody signed initially, and then a youngster being brought in loan eventually.
- We lost six deeper central midfielders from last season (Clucas, Carroll, Sanches, King, Ki, Britton), again with nobody signed.
To get a team together this season, Potter's had to promote players to the first team that we weren't expecting anything from. Dan James has been a revelation, having not being able to get a game at Shrewsbury last season. Matt Grimes has been our player of the season, having been relegated from League 1 last season with Northampton. Jay Fulton couldn't get a look in Wigan's team last season. Celina came in having not had rave reviews at Ipswich. Baker-Richardson became a first teamer despite being signed from Leamington Spa. McBurnie was on loan at Barnsley last season and his come in to prove himself as a player now linked with Premier League sides. George Byers, Joe Rodon, Cian Harries, Yan Dhanda and Connor Roberts all also became first teamers, all of which earning really low wages for this level as the club tries to scrape pennies.
It's that scraping of pennies that will mean Dan James will have to go, with only one year left on his contract, as rather than pay him a true Championship wage when beginning to play in the first team, we decided to gamble to penny pinch and I reckon it'll end up costing us £10 million. The same risks were taken with Joe Rodon and Connor Roberts, but both signed contracts due to us being their boyhood clubs.
The point being - the club is being run like an absolute shambles. We've been backed significantly less than Sunderland were when they got there second relegation, and if we had been relegated this season then the board could have had no complaints. Under a different manager, we would have been but Potter has managed to do brillantly, bedding in the vast majority of his squad in to a real team in most of their first seasons at this level. We've played brilliant football for a lot of the season, with the youngest team in the football league, and might have probably been looking at the play-offs if we had a goalkeeper who was capable of catching a football.
This has been a really enjoyable season for any fan I've spoken to, and Graham Potter is the best manager we've had since Michael Laudrup.
Has he done a better job this season than Farke and Wilder? No. But they're both managers who've had time to build a squad where as Potter's not had the opportunity to carry on from his work this season yet. If he was backed in the summer, and by backed I mean simply not selling our key assets, or spending the majority of the money we receive for players then I'd be backing us to do really well next season. If that doesn't look like it's going to be the case, I can hardly blame him for moving on. As it stands, it looks like we will continue to go backwards as large parts of our remainder of our Premier League squad are out of contract, and there won't be any real steps made to keep hold of them.
For those saying there's still Premier League players on our books, I reckon this is our strongest line up of players going in to next season, that he'll have to work with if he does stay, taking in to account the inevitable contract expirations. How many of those are recognised from our Premier League days?
Mulder
Roberts - Van der Hoorn (c) - Rodon - Grimes
Fulton - Byers
Dyer - Celina - James
McBurnie
What I will say is that the Brighton job is going to be incredibly difficult for him, and I will agree with the point that developing the style of play that we've been playing this season is going to be very difficult to do at that level, and with a side that seem a long way off it.”
“On the face of it we were a relegated Premier League side, and should have had it in us to make a stronger push to get back to the Premier League but whilst Stoke and West Brom backed their managers, our owners did the complete opposite.
£5 million or so spent, all on youngsters, whilst we brought in £40 million, let another three first teamers go for free and loaned out a further £66 million of Premier League signings that went on loan. Our squad got absolutely decimated:
- All of our strikers from last year were sold or let go (Abraham, Baston, A. Ayew, J. Ayew, Bony), with nobody signed.
- Four of our five centre halves from last year were sold (Fernandez, Mawson, Bartley, Amat), again with nobody signed initially, and then a youngster being brought in loan eventually.
- We lost six deeper central midfielders from last season (Clucas, Carroll, Sanches, King, Ki, Britton), again with nobody signed.
To get a team together this season, Potter's had to promote players to the first team that we weren't expecting anything from. Dan James has been a revelation, having not being able to get a game at Shrewsbury last season. Matt Grimes has been our player of the season, having been relegated from League 1 last season with Northampton. Jay Fulton couldn't get a look in Wigan's team last season. Celina came in having not had rave reviews at Ipswich. Baker-Richardson became a first teamer despite being signed from Leamington Spa. McBurnie was on loan at Barnsley last season and his come in to prove himself as a player now linked with Premier League sides. George Byers, Joe Rodon, Cian Harries, Yan Dhanda and Connor Roberts all also became first teamers, all of which earning really low wages for this level as the club tries to scrape pennies.
It's that scraping of pennies that will mean Dan James will have to go, with only one year left on his contract, as rather than pay him a true Championship wage when beginning to play in the first team, we decided to gamble to penny pinch and I reckon it'll end up costing us £10 million. The same risks were taken with Joe Rodon and Connor Roberts, but both signed contracts due to us being their boyhood clubs.
The point being - the club is being run like an absolute shambles. We've been backed significantly less than Sunderland were when they got there second relegation, and if we had been relegated this season then the board could have had no complaints. Under a different manager, we would have been but Potter has managed to do brillantly, bedding in the vast majority of his squad in to a real team in most of their first seasons at this level. We've played brilliant football for a lot of the season, with the youngest team in the football league, and might have probably been looking at the play-offs if we had a goalkeeper who was capable of catching a football.
This has been a really enjoyable season for any fan I've spoken to, and Graham Potter is the best manager we've had since Michael Laudrup.
Has he done a better job this season than Farke and Wilder? No. But they're both managers who've had time to build a squad where as Potter's not had the opportunity to carry on from his work this season yet. If he was backed in the summer, and by backed I mean simply not selling our key assets, or spending the majority of the money we receive for players then I'd be backing us to do really well next season. If that doesn't look like it's going to be the case, I can hardly blame him for moving on. As it stands, it looks like we will continue to go backwards as large parts of our remainder of our Premier League squad are out of contract, and there won't be any real steps made to keep hold of them.
For those saying there's still Premier League players on our books, I reckon this is our strongest line up of players going in to next season, that he'll have to work with if he does stay, taking in to account the inevitable contract expirations. How many of those are recognised from our Premier League days?
Mulder
Roberts - Van der Hoorn (c) - Rodon - Grimes
Fulton - Byers
Dyer - Celina - James
McBurnie
What I will say is that the Brighton job is going to be incredibly difficult for him, and I will agree with the point that developing the style of play that we've been playing this season is going to be very difficult to do at that level, and with a side that seem a long way off it.”
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ferring seagull
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- Dec 30, 2010
- 4,607
Sorry if this was posted earlier,
Alan Nixon
@reluctantnicko·
4h
SWANSEA. Potter and backroom staff all primed for BRIGHTON move. Compo for lot over 3m. So that’s something ...
Alan Nixon
@reluctantnicko·
4h
SWANSEA. Potter and backroom staff all primed for BRIGHTON move. Compo for lot over 3m. So that’s something ...
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
- 10,686
This is the lizard we are talking about.
He knows exactly what he's doing in this situation.
Raleigh Chopper
New member
Hang on, wasn't the caretaker at Fenn Street School in Please Sir called Potter.
If that's the case, I'm in, I loved that show, let's hope he's not just a flash in the pan.
If that's the case, I'm in, I loved that show, let's hope he's not just a flash in the pan.
Kalimantan Gull
Well-known member
Although you have rather jumped on someone else's scoop here..