[Football] Potter [NOT] at Chelsea

[Change at Barnham]

I'm pleased for Potter and I'm even more pleased we have De Zerbi.
I don't think Potter will win anything with Chelsea as he is too conservative in his approach. But he's a decent person and clearly liked by his players, despite the narrative from the media.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Nice rhetoric but he didn't actually leave the club for dead. Mr Bloom and his men were handsomely compensated for Potter's departure, always with a smug grin on the other side of their face, in the knowledge that we had a short list of potential top quality replacements. He left us in fantastic shape is the truth.

#gosbts

Smug grin? You think Bloom was happy to see Potter go and take the entire coaching staff with him, partway through the season?

And how much longer would it have been before De Zerbi would have been snapped up by another club? A matter of weeks, in alll probability.

 

[Triggaaar]

I realise I'm not part of the cool anti Potter gang who are enjoying the death theats

Could you please list all the members of this cool gang who are enjoying the death threats? In fact, can you name any of them?

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Nice rhetoric but he didn't actually leave the club for dead. Mr Bloom and his men were handsomely compensated for Potter's departure, always with a smug grin on the other side of their face, in the knowledge that we had a short list of potential top quality replacements. He left us in fantastic shape is the truth.

#gosbts

Bloom left us in good shape, not Potter.

It took a proper high quality manager to unlock the teams true potential.

 

[GT49er]

Smug grin? You think Bloom was happy to see Potter go and take the entire coaching staff with him, partway through the season?

And how much longer would it have been before De Zerbi would have been snapped up by another club? A matter of weeks, in alll probability.

Absolutely - Potter's star was at its zenith when he was poached by Chelsea. In spite of some post-departure posturing, I don't believe anyone, from Bloom down to the most idle armchair fan leapt to their feet shouting 'Thank f*** he's gone!' Anyone who says they did is, quite frankly, a liar (or an idiot).
Yes, we seem to have come through that crisis with flying colours with knobs on - but it was still fortuitous that RDZ was out of a job at the time.

 

[seagullwedgee]

Briefcase Wanker.

 

[Scotchegg]

i have nothing against Potter, but I fuckin hate Chelsea. They're an absolute stain of a club. Shame they appear to be picking up results.

 

[albionalex]

Yes you’re right - but they aren’t technically the rules and it’s another inconsistency innit’

It's a bit like the foul throw rule. They tend to ignore it unless it's really egregious.

 

[lasvegan]

Bloom left us in good shape, not Potter.

It took a proper high quality manager to unlock the teams true potential.

i agree in part, but to be fair Potter left us in good shape but De Zerbi really is unlocking the teams true potential.

Would Bloom have fired Potter to hire De Zerbi if he hadn’t left? Succession planning is working out rather well though…

 

[Albion my Albion]

GraPottChelOut

 

[BN41Albion]

Decent man? I'll tell you who Is a decent man. Potter walked away from this club and took our entire group of coaches with him. De Zerbi - on the other hand - stayed in war- torn Ukraine until all of his Shakhtar players had got out of the country or made it to safety.

Potter has no honour and doesn't deserve another thought.

A very different scenario. I love RDZ, but I am under no illusion that he wouldn't do the same as GP if offered a similar opportunity at a CL club. Anyone who thinks otherwise is, frankly, a mug.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Smug grin? You think Bloom was happy to see Potter go and take the entire coaching staff with him, partway through the season?

And how much longer would it have been before De Zerbi would have been snapped up by another club? A matter of weeks, in alll probability.

Yes. Bloom is a gambler. He had a back up plan which he had been working on for a while. It wasn’t as if he started to think about Potter’s replacement the day after he left. Football is a ruthless and unsentimental business away from the emotional outpouring of fans.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

A very different scenario. I love RDZ, but I am under no illusion that he wouldn't do the same as GP if offered a similar opportunity at a CL club. Anyone who thinks otherwise is, frankly, a mug.

And are setting themselves up for a similar and probably even bigger fall.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Don't rule Leicester out, they can certainly turn Chelsea over!

I agree.

Chelsea find it so difficult to score whilst Leicester find it really hard not to concede.

But Leicester can are always capable of scoring g lots of goals.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Why? He left this club for dead.

I thought he left us in 4th?

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

In all honesty let’s face it, we all hate Chelsea and we and the rest of the world know, they can buy anyone or anything they want. With the depth of squad they currently have even witch injuries any half decent manager should be able to get top four. We all know Chelsea and Potter are not building a project, they are doing what big clubs do, getting around financial fair play.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Sensible post at last regarding Potter. I have no axe to grind with him. We are in a much better place with him being a major contributor. Let's hope they draw an Italian club in the next round.

Not a sensible post at all! No-one has promoted or 'enjoyed' deaths threats.

 

[Swansman]

i agree in part, but to be fair Potter left us in good shape but De Zerbi really is unlocking the teams true potential.

Would Bloom have fired Potter to hire De Zerbi if he hadn’t left? Succession planning is working out rather well though…

Pretty unlikely with the team being 4th in the league, winning 9 out of the last 15 games.

 

[Justice]

Absolutely - Potter's star was at its zenith when he was poached by Chelsea. In spite of some post-departure posturing, I don't believe anyone, from Bloom down to the most idle armchair fan leapt to their feet shouting 'Thank f*** he's gone!' Anyone who says they did is, quite frankly, a liar (or an idiot).
Yes, we seem to have come through that crisis with flying colours with knobs on - but it was still fortuitous that RDZ was out of a job at the time.

 

[Hugo Rune]

In all honesty let’s face it, we all hate Chelsea and we and the rest of the world know, they can buy anyone or anything they want. With the depth of squad they currently have even witch injuries any have decent manager should be able to get top four. We all know Chelsea and Potter are not building a project, they are doing what big clubs do, getting around financial fair play.

There will be surely be some bargains from Chelsea to be had this summer. Their squad will need a trim, especially as they’ll not be able to increase the amount of international loans they currently have (8).

We might be in the driving seat as I suspect they owe us a lot of money, it might be more convenient for them just writing off debt rather than trying to get other clubs to pay up.

Top of the list would be Colwill who is surely too good for us to sign. But, we might be sniffing about other players as we have down before with Lamptey and Gilmour.

For info, we have 7 players on international loans, so could send out one more next season but there will be a maximum of 6 the following season under new FIFA rules.

Brighton & Hove Albion - Players on loan

This statistics show the compact view of all current players of the club Brighton who are on loan or loaned out.

www.transfermarkt.co.uk

FIFA approves new loan regulations to come into force from July

The FIFA Council adopted new regulations aimed at limiting the number of loan signings a club can make, world soccer's governing body said on Wednesday after the Council met ahead of the 72nd Ordinary Congress in Doha, Qatar.

www.reuters.com