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[Albion] Like Guardiola, we should take the new wave of English coaches seriously



Bozza

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Good read from Oliver Holt in the The Athletic on English managers in the Premier League, which includes a fair few bits about Potter and us.

Full piece here: https://theathletic.com/2370303/202...ke-the-new-wave-of-english-coaches-seriously/

A couple of selective quotes:

It is never good to succumb to the flavour-of-the-month talk that has previously seen Pardew and Monk proposed as future England managers, but Smith’s performance at Villa looked more impressive than ever after a controlled 1-0 victory over Arsenal on Saturday took his team into eighth place and there does seem to be an impressive depth to Potter’s work at Brighton.

The difficult decision to replace Chris Hughton with Potter was based on a belief that, in order to become an established top-flight team, they needed to replace cautious football with a more enterprising, high-risk, possession-based approach. To make that type of transition is far from easy, and Potter faced criticism during a run of nine Premier League games without a win, but a sense of purpose, identity and direction has always been clear. After months of defying the xG analysts by taking far fewer points than their performances seemingly deserved, Brighton have taken ten points from their last five matches, including a treasured victory over Liverpool at Anfield on Wednesday evening.​

It is hard enough for Smith, Potter, Dyche, Parker and the rest to demonstrate that they deserve to manage in the Premier League. It is not, as Allardyce once put it, “a foreign league played in England”, but it is an international league — a majority of overseas owners, overseas players and, more often than not, overseas coaches. There are 17 Italian coaches in Serie A and 14 Spanish coaches in La Liga, but most Premier League owners are inclined to look abroad to find the most attractive option, in many cases with spectacular results. Even for those homegrown managers who have managed to buck the trend, there has long been a feeling that a glass ceiling would mean that even upper-mid-table jobs are out of reach, particularly for the younger ones.

That could well change over the coming years. Potter looks capable of making his mark at a bigger club (though good lucking finding one with a vision as clear as that at Brighton). Smith already has Villa in contention for European qualification this season, which might help the Midlands club to reassert themselves at a level more in keeping with their rich history. Dyche’s playing style and gruff demeanour might well scare off a few owners, but he is known to be admired by the hierarchy at Palace as they turn their minds towards life beyond Hodgson. And then there is Howe, whose success in taking Bournemouth all the way to the Premier League and keeping them there for five years attracted admiration in high places, as of course it should have done.​
 

Greg Bobkin

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Good read from Oliver Holt in the The Athletic on English managers in the Premier League, which includes a fair few bits about Potter and us.

Full piece here: https://theathletic.com/2370303/202...ke-the-new-wave-of-english-coaches-seriously/

A couple of selective quotes:

It is never good to succumb to the flavour-of-the-month talk that has previously seen Pardew and Monk proposed as future England managers, but Smith’s performance at Villa looked more impressive than ever after a controlled 1-0 victory over Arsenal on Saturday took his team into eighth place and there does seem to be an impressive depth to Potter’s work at Brighton.

The difficult decision to replace Chris Hughton with Potter was based on a belief that, in order to become an established top-flight team, they needed to replace cautious football with a more enterprising, high-risk, possession-based approach. To make that type of transition is far from easy, and Potter faced criticism during a run of nine Premier League games without a win, but a sense of purpose, identity and direction has always been clear. After months of defying the xG analysts by taking far fewer points than their performances seemingly deserved, Brighton have taken ten points from their last five matches, including a treasured victory over Liverpool at Anfield on Wednesday evening.​

It is hard enough for Smith, Potter, Dyche, Parker and the rest to demonstrate that they deserve to manage in the Premier League. It is not, as Allardyce once put it, “a foreign league played in England”, but it is an international league — a majority of overseas owners, overseas players and, more often than not, overseas coaches. There are 17 Italian coaches in Serie A and 14 Spanish coaches in La Liga, but most Premier League owners are inclined to look abroad to find the most attractive option, in many cases with spectacular results. Even for those homegrown managers who have managed to buck the trend, there has long been a feeling that a glass ceiling would mean that even upper-mid-table jobs are out of reach, particularly for the younger ones.

That could well change over the coming years. Potter looks capable of making his mark at a bigger club (though good lucking finding one with a vision as clear as that at Brighton). Smith already has Villa in contention for European qualification this season, which might help the Midlands club to reassert themselves at a level more in keeping with their rich history. Dyche’s playing style and gruff demeanour might well scare off a few owners, but he is known to be admired by the hierarchy at Palace as they turn their minds towards life beyond Hodgson. And then there is Howe, whose success in taking Bournemouth all the way to the Premier League and keeping them there for five years attracted admiration in high places, as of course it should have done.​

Interesting stuff. Reading the highlighted bit, it made me wonder who theBrighton manager would be – and what direction the club would've gone in – if it had foreign owners, as opposed to TB...

Personally, I think stability (hopefully) with the management is a positive and I'd rather have someone like Potter as opposed to, say, a higher profile name who would either be a) sacked after a bad run or b) poached by a 'bigger' club if the team was flying higher :shrug:
 

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