[Albion] Do we have a realistic chance of getting Poch?

[Bold Seagull]

If we were only prepared to pay Potter sub £2m salary, and now suddenly we're going to entertain a £7m+ salary, it begs the question of whether loyalty should have extended to offering Potter a fat contract to keep the vultures at bay?

Finishing 9th there quite possibly should have been a big contract offer on Potter's desk and a throwing the cash around in the transfer window. That is if you believe Pochettino is in the frame of course...

He isn't in the frame because it isn't going to suddenly be our model of doing things. The appointment will come out of the left field, and that person won't have a 'transfer war chest', they'll have our typical little finds and discoveries.

It's far from a criticism of how TB is choosing to run the club at all, they are eye watering year on year losses afterall, but that is how he's running it, top 10 on a budget, and it's been working so far. Poch can rest easy on his gardening leave.

 

[Taybha]

We're a top 4 club Potterchino would indeed fancy a go here it all depends on whether we can then dump the clubs entire philosophy and start buying players who want 150k a week,I suppose most top managers nowadays think that's the only way to be much cop.

 

[Marshy]

Nah, we can do better than him, failed with a massive budget and probably the best team at PSG.

haha we can do better, yeah right.

Love that you think we can though

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Some of us have a growth mindset, some of us don’t.

I am sure Potter thought the same as you about the possibility of managing a top 6 elite club.

I’m not sure Potter did, you don’t uproot a young family to Sweden without having massive self belief, he’s upgraded with every job he’s taken, whereas for Poch this would be like Potter going from us back to Ostersunds. Poch will almost certainly be targeting an ‘elite’ level club, not BHA.

 

[bluenitsuj]

Why would we want him. He has one **** all in the Premier League which includes managing Spurs for a few years. No thanks

 

[Greg Bobkin]

https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/spo...tter-step-forward-mauricio-pochettino-3841631

IMHO it’s a clear statement of intent that we wish to remain in the Top 10 and even push further on.

It’s the most unique and significant appointment in the clubs history, we can’t look back and say, Potter was unknown and untried, we were a different entity, as much as it grieves me to say it we were bottom 6 all day long with Hughton, a change was needed, with a few bumps in the road it’s clearly worked with GP, but now we have to replace a Top 10 manager with another proven Top 10 manager..

'For me, one man ticks all the boxes... step forward Mauricio Pochettino."

Is that the end of the article? Genuine question because there's no explanation of why it should be him, what he would bring to the club or what the club would offer him. Or, in fact, anything. The only mention of his name are the last two words of the article

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

We're a top 4 club Potterchino would indeed fancy a go here it all depends on whether we can then dump the clubs entire philosophy and start buying players who want 150k a week,I suppose most top managers nowadays think that's the only way to be much cop.

Mopo started with players on wages nowhere near that, he ditched most the players on high wages as were not hungry enough

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Only chance of getting him here would be by selling it to him on a ‘do a good job here for a couple of seasons and you’ll get a job back in the top 6’ basis. Which is exact what we don’t want.

Isn’t it?

If it persuaded some of our promising youngsters to stay rather than leave post Potter, I would take it.

If a lower profile’name’, came in, as a player I would be reevaluating the clubs ambition.

(I realise lower profile doesn’t equate to bad, but that’s not how I may feel as a player).

I would take Potch for two years.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

If we were only prepared to pay Potter sub £2m salary, and now suddenly we're going to entertain a £7m+ salary, it begs the question of whether loyalty should have extended to offering Potter a fat contract to keep the vultures at bay?

Finishing 9th there quite possibly should have been a big contract offer on Potter's desk and a throwing the cash around in the transfer window. That is if you believe Pochettino is in the frame of course...

He isn't in the frame because it isn't going to suddenly be our model of doing things. The appointment will come out of the left field, and that person won't have a 'transfer war chest', they'll have our typical little finds and discoveries.

It's far from a criticism of how TB is choosing to run the club at all, they are eye watering year on year losses afterall, but that is how he's running it, top 10 on a budget, and it's been working so far. Poch can rest easy on his gardening leave.

Yes, perfectly fair, but if I’m Potch the longer I’m out of the limelight the less relevant I become. I’m sitting on a tidy pay-off from PSG, so perhaps I’ll lower my expectations financially in order to take on an exciting project……. Possibly

 

[Easy 10]

We're a top 4 club Potterchino would indeed fancy a go here it all depends on whether we can then dump the clubs entire philosophy and start buying players who want 150k a week,I suppose most top managers nowadays think that's the only way to be much cop.

Good grief. Being 4th after 6 games does not make us a "top 4 club" any more than Arsenal currently being top makes them Champions.

Any league table at this stage of the season is simply a form guide, nothing more nothing less. If Poch gets the job, or even shows a hint of interest in it, then I'll eat my earlobes.

 

[Justice]

Yes, perfectly fair, but if I’m Potch the longer I’m out of the limelight the less relevant I become. I’m sitting on a tidy pay-off from PSG, so perhaps I’ll lower my expectations financially in order to take on an exciting project……. Possibly

Darren Bent said the same his stock is lowering he needs a job and with all the top jobs sewn up he needs to get back in the saddle.

 

[Commander]

Isn’t it?

If it persuaded some of our promising youngsters to stay rather than leave post Potter, I would take it.

If a lower profile’name’, came in, as a player I would be reevaluating the clubs ambition.

(I realise lower profile doesn’t equate to bad, but that’s not how I may feel as a player).

I would take Potch for two years.

I mean it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, but it is virtually certain that we'd be back here again in 2 years.

I'm also not completely sure where this whole 'elite manager' thing comes in with Poch. He did a great job at Saints, and then did well at Spurs for a few years (with some brilliant players), before it all fell apart. Then he failed to win the league with PSG in France to begin with, which is hardly a ringing endorsement.

He seems to be being grouped in the same lot with the likes of Mourinho, Guardiola, Klopp etc. I think the only thing he has in common with that calibre of manager is the wages he'd have been paid at PSG.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

I mean it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, but it is virtually certain that we'd be back here again in 2 years.

I'm also not completely sure where this whole 'elite manager' thing comes in with Poch. He did a great job at Saints, and then did well at Spurs for a few years (with some brilliant players), before it all fell apart. Then he failed to win the league with PSG in France to begin with, which is hardly a ringing endorsement.

He seems to be being grouped in the same lot with the likes of Mourinho, Guardiola, Klopp etc. I think the only thing he has in common with that calibre of manager is the wages he'd have been paid at PSG.

Though he turned Spurs round from a mid-table team, to a top 4, champions league finalist.

Besides, in two years time perhaps Bruno may be/feel ready.

Edit - sorry [MENTION=2095]Commander[/MENTION] for some reason my eyes skipped the Spurs sentence in your response…..

 

[Taybha]

I think some people are taking football way too seriously

 

[Silverhatch]

Brighton appoint Poch. The NOISE around us goes up fifty-fold. Lazy-non-informed-hacks immediately gravitate to #TLBrighton

 

[Whoislloydy]

If we're willing to pay him 250k per week I imagine he'd at least entertain the idea.