Pretty much any player from any league will take time to adjust to the pace of the EPL. You can only try to assess whether they have the potential to do so.
What they need IMO
Short term appointment balancing experience and graft to try to keep them up this season - whether or not successful is another matter.
Biggest surprise is a three year deal. All concerned must know it’s inevitable that they’ll be paying up a lot of the remainder if they do...
Seems a very un-Brighton signing.
Cost is probably at or very close to peak so not much in the way of future added value.
Clearly very talented and a future full international but questions about whether he’s a one-man band rather than a team player.
Purely in terms of skill he’s a good...
I’m seriously not bothered where Potter ends up but if you want a motivator to keep you up first season I suspect he’s not your man while Cooper may very well be a good fit. Short-termism is essential for a newly promoted side hoping to win establish themselves in the EPL.
Not sure he’d be especially aware of Hurzeler - the gap between Budesliga and 2 Bundesliga is as big as EPL to the Championship with media coverage.
But I think your point is a good one. I suspect RDZ’s “expectations” didn’t help him settling here and he might well find it easier with the new...
That’s a real interesting comment isn’t it… the fact he knows us and we already know him
i suspect this is the reality - just doesn’t work for the media