[Albion] Fabian Hürzeler **SINGED 15/06/2024**

[trueblue]

I wondered about this. But then, how much top-level experience did Potter have, really?

He’d been a coach for a very long time and taken a team into Europe, picking up some good results against top clubs. A lot, I’d say.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

A fiery character who has been racking up yellow cards for dissent for fun since his playing days, Hürzeler has also cited Oliver Glasner, Gian Piero Gasperini and Diego Simeone as inspirations.


Thank god. Was beginning to worry he was a wet lettuce lefty !!

This is a snip from an Athletic Article

“He is no wallflower. The wildness Hurzeler once had as a player is still there in the technical area. He had been yellow-carded seven times by February last season and when St Pauli scored a last-minute equaliser against Fortuna Dusseldorf in the DFB-Pokal quarter-finals, he was left celebrating among supporters, having been banished to the stands. Supporters love him and embrace him for his passion. Opponents tend to be ruffled by him, though. As do rival coaches.”

Meet Fabian Hurzeler, set to be Brighton's new 31-year-old head coach

After guiding St Pauli to promotion, U.S.-born Hurzeler is set to be appointed as De Zerbi's successor. His rise has been a quantum leap

www.nytimes.com

 

[Whitechapel]

“No doubt, the data describing his growth has helped to attract Brighton. St Pauli played some of the prettiest football on their way to promotion but they were also among its most effective set-piece teams. They scored the fourth-most goals from dead-ball situations in 2023-24 and conceded the fewest.”

IN.

 

[dstanman]

What a club we are always trying to push the boundaries that other clubs do not look at

 

[trueblue]

It's a HUGE risk but f*** it, it's an ambitious, exciting, fun and forward thinking appointment. If it doesn't work then so be it but this is such a bold appointment and I'm loving the energy it's brought to the fan base.

Football is meant to be FUN

This is FUN.

It’s fun if it works!

I’ll decide how exciting it is after a couple of months of the season, I think. Years of hard work can unravel very rapidly in the Premier League.

 

[Flounce]

This is a snip from an Athletic Article

“He is no wallflower. The wildness Hurzeler once had as a player is still there in the technical area. He had been yellow-carded seven times by February last season and when St Pauli scored a last-minute equaliser against Fortuna Dusseldorf in the DFB-Pokal quarter-finals, he was left celebrating among supporters, having been banished to the stands. Supporters love him and embrace him for his passion. Opponents tend to be ruffled by him, though. As do rival coaches.”

Meet Fabian Hurzeler, set to be Brighton's new 31-year-old head coach

After guiding St Pauli to promotion, U.S.-born Hurzeler is set to be appointed as De Zerbi's successor. His rise has been a quantum leap

www.nytimes.com

A Shithousing manager, get him IN!

 

[Ike and Tina Burner]

Some random German on another football forum: "He will piss everyone off if Brighton start losing because he is so abrasive"

I love him already Really excited, whatever happens I don't think it's gonna be boring

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

After reading The Athletic article, all of a sudden beginning to feel a little excited

 

[kelvinnewman]

Profile image changed!

 

[Wozza]

He’d been a coach for a very long time and taken a team into Europe, picking up some good results against top clubs. A lot, I’d say.

Yeah, a long time in a log-fellers' league. Came to Brighton with one good result against Arsenal in the Europa League under his belt, a good performance (but loss) against Man City and a middling season (under difficult circumstances) with Swansea.

Look, I'm exaggerating - a bit.

Point is, he had to earn the respect of players with his methods. FH will need to do the same.

 

[Eric the meek]

It’s fun if it works!

I’ll decide how exciting it is after a couple of months of the season, I think. Years of hard work can unravel very rapidly in the Premier League.

That's the spirit !

It's fraught with danger isn't it?

@Zeberdi, prepare to be ducked in Falmer pond if Fab doesn't deliver instantly.

 

[el punal]

Finding it difficult to share some of the excitement. Seems to be based on him coming from a trendy club, playing a similar style and being a left-field appointment.

On the flip side, he’s younger than several of our senior players with no experience of coaching at the top level or of English football. He’s going to have to be pretty good from the off to command respect.

As always, I’ll trust that Tony Bloom knows best and can pull another rabbit out of the hat - but it’s certainly a risk when you compare it to the type of CV our other Premier League bosses boasted. It’s… interesting. Hopefully a stroke of genius.

Let’s go with your last sentence, after all it’s been a bit of a downer being a Brighton fan over the last few months. Something like this (if it comes to fruition of course) will certainly warm the cockles of the heart.

 

[peterward]

Work permit is something that came up in the original telegraph article. But I would imagine the guy will be paid at least a Milly a year on a 3 year contract, so I suspect the government would fast track this process seeing he will be paying way over a million in taxes over those 3 years !

Does he realise his household will need to pay an extra £2000 in taxes once Starmer gets in

 

[Zeberdi]

I think Zeberdi should change his photo to one where he's looking earnest and professional while talking into a phone.
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Done (without the phone)

 

[Wozza]

He is no wallflower. The wildness Hurzeler once had as a player is still there in the technical area. He had been yellow-carded seven times by February last season and when St Pauli scored a last-minute equaliser against Fortuna Dusseldorf in the DFB-Pokal quarter-finals, he was left celebrating among supporters, having been banished to the stands. Supporters love him and embrace him for his passion. Opponents tend to be ruffled by him, though. As do rival coaches.


Hail Hurzeler!

 

[BBassic]

This is all rather exciting.

Started the week with the outside chance of going back to the ex that left us and ended it looking increasingly likely we've landed an exciting young manager who winds up rival players and coaches and celebrates in with the fans.

What a week.

 

[Somethingdean]

I've heard he exclusively listens to We Butter The Bread With Butter.

Exactly what I was imagining in my head!

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

If he becomes manager we are taking him from a smaller club hopefully those usual fans that moan when our players move to bigger clubs won't whinge anymore.

This is the only thing I do not like about it.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

December 31st 2024 Press Conference

“Paul Barber kennt meine Idee sehr gut”

 

[Machiavelli]

It’s fun if it works!

I’ll decide how exciting it is after a couple of months of the season, I think. Years of hard work can unravel very rapidly in the Premier League.

Fair play for your posts.
Someone on here said that TB doesn't gamble with the club (which I think is right; he's meticulous), and this looks like the boldest appointment he's made. We'll see, I'm excited but won't be at the forefront of calling him tactically naive, etc if things don't go well -- I suspect a few others whose adrenaline levels are now going through the roof might not be so accommodating