Brilliant post. I was surprised he didn't hang out for the England job. Lets face it, if Southgate doesn't win the World Cup, he'll be gone. So if we were doing as well as we have been doing, he would have become the ultimate candidate. I don't think anyone would have been so upset him going for the England managers role. I, like most of us feel a bit gutted & let down right now but we'll bounce back. Not so sure Bruno will be so welcome at the club by us fans anymore though which is a shame.
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[Football] Graham Potter - ruthless
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Brilliant post. I was surprised he didn't hang out for the England job. Lets face it, if Southgate doesn't win the World Cup, he'll be gone. So if we were doing as well as we have been doing, he would have become the ultimate candidate. I don't think anyone would have been so upset him going for the England managers role. I, like most of us feel a bit gutted & let down right now but we'll bounce back. Not so sure Bruno will be so welcome at the club by us fans anymore though which is a shame.
redoubtable seagull
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Because the England manager job does not pay £60m for a 5 year contract. Southgate is thought to be on £5m a year, Potter (or Potter and his team) is now on £12m a year.
Peter Ward
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Concurring with most of the posts on here. This was all planned well in advance in a very shoddy, mercenary way. My thoughts right now are about our Tony. Was this all a sudden, shocking kick in the teeth or would he have known for some time. As a shrewd strategic gambler he'd have known that this day would arrive, perhaps he knew even before Potter that an offer was coming in and would be planning for it. What is the strategy ?
Wrong-Direction
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Why do the photo shoot inthe morning if planned?
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Peter Ward
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I guess we'll know soon enough if this all part of Tony's grand plan. Can we all assume that his allegiance is as solid as we thought we had in the management team. Or am I just an old cynic?
Appointment of the new coach & team will tell us……..a quick appointment and we’ll know it was all stitched up ages ago.
Only caceido & maybe sanchez are worth buying. Macca & trossard aren't good enough & nor is anyone else. Which is a relief
jackalbion
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A lot funnier when you personally know the person behind the account
Wardy's twin
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Macca is 23 and his improvement over the last 6 months has been amazing. Maybe he is playing for his place in the Argentinian WC first eleven but what ever the guy is a lot better than you have said.
I'm saying he's not good enough for Chelsea, man u, city, Liverpool
(& I'm quite happy about that)
SUA Seagull
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Good post PW. I am now wondering if we all misinterpreted Bruno’s Spanish accent in his moving farewell speech and that he actually said “Once I see gold….”!
For the entire group to have resigned en masse so quickly suggests that this was all under negotiation with Chelsea for quite a while, although that’s to be expected I guess – "poaching" happens in all walks of corporate life.
I’m more upset with the timing, just when the club was on an upward trajectory enjoying a spell of excellent form and playing some of the best football we’ve ever seen from the Albion, with real prospects of improvement on last season’s 9th placed finish. As at today, with the news of Chelsea's "coup" still fresh and painful, I can't help but feel this may potentially unsettle our squad - although I very much hope that I am proved wrong.
I know “it’s business” and all that, and that everyone who’s leaving will, understandably, be looking after their own personal career and family interests, but it hurts nevertheless and I personally feel they’ve been rather disloyal to TB, who has backed all of them to the hilt (as far as we know). In the club's official announcement TB said he was "very disappointed" which I think most of us read as diplomatic-speak for "f****** apoplectic" !
We’ll all get behind whoever is eventually appointed as the new manager, and provide total support to Andrew Crofts and his team in the interim, but this is a kick in the teeth for the club and for TB personally and I sincerely hope that the players – especially the recent arrivals at the club – aren’t fazed by this and that it’ll be business as usual when the fixtures resume.
BUT, we are Seagulls and we have seen it all! We’ve faced worse upsets in the past and have all pulled through together. We’re in as good a place as we can be at the moment and with TB and PB at the helm I am optimistic that we’ll come though this latest challenge okay. In TB I trust!
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kevo
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Good post PW. I am now wondering if we all misinterpreted Bruno’s Spanish accent in his moving farewell speech and that he actually said “Once I see gold….”!
For the entire group to have resigned en masse so quickly suggests that this was all under negotiation with Chelsea for quite a while, although that’s to be expected I guess – "poaching" happens in all walks of corporate life.
I’m more upset with the timing, just when the club was on an upward trajectory enjoying a spell of excellent form and playing some of the best football we’ve ever seen from the Albion, with real prospects of improvement on last season’s 9th placed finish. As at today, with the news of Chelsea's "coup" still fresh and painful, I can't help but feel this may potentially unsettle our squad - although I very much hope that I am proved wrong.
I know “it’s business” and all that, and that everyone who’s leaving will, understandably, be looking after their own personal career and family interests, but it hurts nevertheless and I personally feel they’ve been rather disloyal to TB, who has backed all of them to the hilt (as far as we know). In the club's official announcement TB said he was "very disappointed" which I think most of us read as diplomatic-speak for "f****** apoplectic" !
We’ll all get behind whoever is eventually appointed as the new manager, and provide total support to Andrew Crofts and his team in the interim, but this is a kick in the teeth for the club and for TB personally and I sincerely hope that the players – especially the recent arrivals at the club – aren’t fazed by this and that it’ll be business as usual when the fixtures resume.
BUT, we are Seagulls and we have seen it all! We’ve faced worse upsets in the past and have all pulled through together. We’re in as good a place as we can be at the moment and with TB and PB at the helm I am optimistic that we’ll come though this latest challenge okay. In TB I trust!
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Hardcore Chelsea-supporting mate (only missed two games, including all European matches home and away, since the mid-70s) told me on Weds morning that they already knew what was happening before the Zagreb match. Tuchel was out and Potter had been lined-up as his successor for a while.
This makes sense when you consider the speed of the exits. I reckon everyone knew and had already talked to their families etc. Which makes me wonder if Bloom also knew and had already been talking to potential replacements.
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BadFish
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If so, our new replacement shouldn't be far away and we can move on with our lives.
Can we all prepare ourselves for the fact that if the new manager does well, eventually the football world will notice (getting into the top ten usually does it) and one of a bigger club will take them. FWIW this is exactly what we are about to do to someone else. Whatever they say and how ever much they kiss the badge and play the game, this is unlikely to change.
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If Chelsea took contact with GP before Tuchel was sacked, Brighton would be suing Chelsea for x millions and it wasnt happening.
Tony was likely caught off guard, or the club would have a new manager ready almost instantly. That is clearly not the case.
No one thought Tuchel would get sacked this soon, and no one thought Chelsea would go for GP rather than some big international name.
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To make the departed look like *****?
KZNSeagull
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£200m should do it for Caicedo although I would suggest that he would go for Bissouma
Papa Lazarou
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Dale Stephens is still available I think.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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