[Albion] Graham Potter joins on four-year deal

Chicken Run · Sep 27, 2020

Could you imagine if say Warnock was our manager yesterday, I recon after his likely reaction to yesterday’s game he’d be lucky to see the touch line again this year [emoji23]

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vagabond · Sep 27, 2020

vagabond said:
I’ve consistently said I’m 100% behind Graham Potter as our manager regardless if we are relegated or not.

He’s a fantastic ambassador for our club, I respect him as a man, as a coach and I fully embrace his philosophy of football.

I’ve coined a new phrase in his honour. ‘The future’s bright, the future’s Potter’.

Nothing’s changed for me.

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Weststander · Feb 21, 2021

GP admired elsewhere.

vagabond · Feb 21, 2021

Spurs fans think it wouldn’t be a problem taking Potter. We are just little old Brighton I guess. How could he turn them down?

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One Teddy Maybank · Feb 21, 2021

I’m more worried about Leicester if Rogers ends up at Spurs.

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vagabond · Feb 21, 2021

One Teddy Maybank said:
I’m more worried about Leicester if Rogers ends up at Spurs.

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Do you really think he’d take either the Leicester or Spurs job?

Swansman · Feb 21, 2021

One Teddy Maybank said:
I’m more worried about Leicester if Rogers ends up at Spurs.

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They are quite similar managers, they do the whole Verheijen thing and they go to courses in Spain/Portugal etc. Would be a logical step for Leicester but I dont think GP will be going anywhere for the forseeable future.

GT49er · Feb 21, 2021

vagabond said:
Do you really think he’d take either the Leicester or Spurs job?

I've no idea. How much of a long term project did the Swansea fans think he was on there?

vagabond · Feb 21, 2021

GT49er said:
I've no idea. How much of a long term project did the Swansea fans think he was on there?

True, but they were in the Championship and by all accounts under questionable ownership.

I’d say he has a pretty safe long term project to build here for years at a Premier League club with an owner and supportive board fully behind him.

Leicester or Spurs, get a few dodgy results and he would be under the kosh. I mean look at the Potter out brigade here, it’d be 10 times worse at a top 6 team.

dazzer6666 · Feb 21, 2021

Weststander said:
GP admired elsewhere.

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Bit of confusion there I think. He’s not interested in going TO Spuds, he’s GROWING spuds.

GT49er · Feb 21, 2021

vagabond said:
True, but they were in the Championship and by all accounts under questionable ownership.

I’d say he has a pretty safe long term project to build here for years at a Premier League club with an owner and supportive board fully behind him.

Leicester or Spurs, get a few dodgy results and he would be under the kosh. I mean look at the Potter out brigade here, it’d be 10 times worse at a top 6 team.

Pretty much agree - but - two years ago (or 18 months ago anyway) we all thought the same about Chris Hughton!

vagabond · Feb 21, 2021

GT49er said:
Pretty much agree - but - two years ago (or 18 months ago anyway) we all thought the same about Chris Hughton!

Good point well made.

Swansman · Feb 21, 2021

GT49er said:
I've no idea. How much of a long term project did the Swansea fans think he was on there?

Night and day tbh. Brighton is a club going forward. Swansea had just begun their massive downsizing. To quote their recent CEO Trevor Birch:

"To put our revenue decline in context, for the year ending July 31, 2018, we had a total turnover of £126.8m. Next season (2020-21) that will drop to just shy of £30m, and when the parachute payments cease for season 2021-22 then turnover drops to approximately £17m if we are not promoted. That’s a drop of nearly £110m."

Recently they had their academy downgraded from category 1 to category 2 just because the owners wont bother to invest those extra £2m or whatever it would cost to keep it rolling. Cooper got a little bit of funds after the Rodon sale since things were going quite well and the owners felt the nice smell of Premier League money. But generally speaking its a club that seems to have a pretty dark future and where there is a massive distance between owners and staff, even Cooper has expressed some dismay over how things are run.

Brighton, on the other hand, is probably the best run club in the country in many ways.

blockhseagull · Feb 21, 2021

dazzer6666 said:
Bit of confusion there I think. He’s not interested in going TO Spuds, he’s GROWING spuds.

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Great research again by the sun !

I always thought Bissouma was Malian

Knocky's Nose · Feb 21, 2021

"..Eventually, after a long period of time, he would start to see things coming through and would have some vegetables.."

Is that a reference to Locadia?

One Teddy Maybank · Feb 21, 2021

vagabond said:
Do you really think he’d take either the Leicester or Spurs job?

It depends on his ambitions.

Leicester arguably are more stable than Spurs, and GP’s brand of football would fit with both.

Conversely, he is well supported by Brighton, so hopefully that would make him think twice.

Albion in the north · Feb 21, 2021

blockhseagull said:
Great research again by the sun !

I always thought Bissouma was Malian

Plays international football for Mali but born in the Ivory Coast.

Tory Boy · Feb 21, 2021

Don't want him to leave, but if he does at some time good luck to him.

The reason we are where we are is down to Tony Bloom, he is the one we never want to leave.

And in all fairness I can't see him ever leaving.

TB

vagabond · Feb 21, 2021

One Teddy Maybank said:
It depends on his ambitions.

Leicester arguably are more stable than Spurs, and GP’s brand of football would fit with both.

Conversely, he is well supported by Brighton, so hopefully that would make him think twice.

Granted not Chelsea levels.. but Leicester have been pretty trigger happy and not known for patience with a manager. They even sacked the manager who won them the title.

Would be a risky move for GP I think.

Badger Boy · Feb 21, 2021

vagabond said:
Granted not Chelsea levels.. but Leicester have been pretty trigger happy and not known for patience with a manager. They even sacked the manager who won them the title.

Would be a risky move for GP I think.

I think their decisions have been justified though, to be fair. Ranieri I think lost his mother after illness so he was spending more time away from the club than managing it, which showed in their lack of form. He was justifiably sacked.

Craig Shakespeare was a strange choice, understandably sacked.

Claude Puel did a good job but he wasn't taking them forward and was a boring sod who can't have had the full backing of a very powerful dressing room. I'm sure they knew Brendan Rodgers fancied the job before making that change and there's certainly no question they did the right thing there.

Personally, I'm not sure Leicester are trigger happy as much as they're decisive when a change needs to be made. Leicester are absolutely a club we should be looking to emulate - similar sized stadiums and I would hope we're looking at them as a model of how to really develop a team on the pitch. They've been able to bring through younger players and also make some high value sales to reinvest in the side.

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