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I am fairly sure Bruno would remain, Bjorn and Billy will be off, Kyle Macauley too, but at least his knowledge of our recruitment targets are probably not the type Chelsea will be going after and shouldn't stuff us up on that score. If he goes, I guess once he has had a look round the place he...

The only sense that makes is if he didn't think the fans would back the switch without Tuchel looking shit first, and then somehow sabotaged Tuchel to make sure he fell flat on his face, with a fortunes worth of quality players. Nonsense.

We don't know that is true, I doubt anything gets resolved today, unless it he is rejecting the offer. He doesn't strike me as the sort of guy to make a decision like this without giving it some thought and talking it through with his wife, his assistants, and to some extent Tony Bloom and Paul...

I don't want to be, I want to crash what they consider to be their party once in a while though.

Never fear, Potter said this just a couple of weeks ago. “It can’t just be about how much money you spend. That would be quite depressing, and eventually people would fall out of love with football if that was the case. “You always have to provide something beyond that for it to be of any...

That will be why the club took the team photo on the Pitch this morning. PB and TB will have been aware that Potter is fancied by others and may have to replace him, and have some ideas of who they would like, but other than that, this is out of the blue.

Because there is a release clause and Chelsea have agreed to meet it, I guess we have some trust at board level on that, if it had been Man City I think they would have been asked to deposit the release fee in our accounts before speaking to him.

Not really, just stuck to the terms of the contract, there was a Gardening Leave clause in there for a reason, he had commercially sensitive information.

I am still hopeful he stays, if Chelsea make him an offer he likes, he will still need to evaluate whether he trusts what he is being told, can work with certain individuals, and is trusted to boot out any mentally wronguns that may inhabit the dressing room, even if they are top talents. When...

Sensible of them, talk to all top 3 or 4 on your list, tell each they are your preferred candidate, but you have to talk to the others because you have not got time to waste and appreciate they need a day or two to think it over. Saves time and possibly face for the next Manager.

Yeah, its a package deal, Potter comes with an assistant, a statistician and a recruitment man. No way he moves on without them, I wonder if Bloom mentioned the buy out clauses of £10M a piece for each of them to Chelsea?:lol:

Hopefully not something we need to worry about, but looking back at all appointments since Bloom took control, it is unlikely to be a well established one.

Yes, and he was a bit reluctant to come, I think if he had a more stable platform to build from there we would not have got him.

Which club do you see going for Tuchel?

He is a Potter fan, not a Brighton fan, he will just move with him.

Bissouma was given a limited role because he was absolutely top notch in breaking up play with interceptions and tackles, but not so good with his passing and shooting. He can do more though, and if we had not recruited so well, more would have been asked of him and he may have become even more...

Andrew Crofts, Elliot Bennet, Dean Hammond, Leo Ulloa, some were loans but none flopped, Crofts was awesome till injury ended him. Edit: Where we have had problems is returning Managers being way below what they achieved first time round with Micky Adams and Allan Mullery.

I think with the policy of always having an eye out for who is available, we took advantage of a contract situation and signed Billy Gilmour. It is then tougher for Alzate to force his way into the side. Whilst I hope Alzate does the business in Belgium, we also have to hope that Gilmour proves...

I am not sure of your selection criteria, do you mean Amex era, or Premier League era?

There is a long way to go, a World Cup, another transfer window and a couple of managerial changes to come yet, but our chances of a top 6 finish this season are decent, as long as we keep the duff performances to a minimum, I am sure we will not be far off points wise but it could be quite...