Uh_huh_him
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[Albion] Graham Potter joins on four-year deal
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Icy Gull
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Getting back on track, anyone else a little worried that we’ll be losing GP by the beginning of next season if we continue to over achieve? Rock and a hard place if we end up top 10
Time for an improved contract to ensure we get massive compensation.
Unless, of course, he wants to stick with this project
Time for an improved contract to ensure we get massive compensation.
Unless, of course, he wants to stick with this project
Nobby Cybergoat
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Getting back on track, anyone else a little worried that we’ll be losing GP by the beginning of next season if we continue to over achieve? Rock and a hard place if we end up top 10
Time for an improved contract to ensure we get massive compensation.
Unless, of course, he wants to stick with this project
Isn't it 4 years he still has left?
Icy Gull
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Yes, but he worth much more to us now than when he got that extension, so let’s get it back up to six years
NotABrightonFan
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Disillusioned Man Utd fan with a soft spot for my local team Wolves, and interest in the Arsenal and Brighton managerial projects.
Why would a Man Utd fan be disillusioned?
Icy Gull
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All that talent and OGS as manager coupled with their owners I’d think
What's wrong with the owners? Aren't Utd one of the biggest spenders in the last 5 years? Signing some of the biggest names in the world / Europe?
NotABrightonFan
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Football is more than results to me. While the results have been okay lately the level of performance not so much. The manager is uninspiring and so is the football when you look at the resources available in the playing staff.
Charlies Shinpad
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Excellent post.I can understand there are people that think like this, results-first, and that's fair enough I suppose, we're all different. For me its far more about the trajectory, the promise of better results in the future, enjoying the journey. When we get 'there', wherever 'there' is, it will become more about the results for me - in our promotion campaigns over the past two decades it was all about the results, no doubt. But the here and now is undoubtedly a stage on a journey for us, not the final destination.
It was pointed out that Steve Bruce had a better record as manager of Newcastle than Potter did as manager of Brighton, over exactly the same time scale (although after 4 wins from 5 this year, that may have changed). So from a results-first position, you'd presumably rather be following his style and teams than our style and teams. Taking a longer-term view, however, the best you can see Bruce's Newcastle achieving is exactly the same year-in, year-out, but with us the potential for progression was always there even if the results weren't. So now the results are here, previous outers are saying 'I was wrong' and the rest of us are saying 'we're not surprised'.
If a club wants to safely finish 13th-16th each season, you can do a Bruce or a Dyche or a Hodgson, and get a stable team of experienced-and-solid regulars and that little bit of flair sufficient to achieve that with relative ease - but thats the limit. If you want to aim to finish consistently higher (without big cash injections a la Wolves or West Ham, or being a flash-in-the-pan like Sheffield), you have to take time to develop youth and inexperience, both players AND managers, and have a clear plan in place. At the outset this won't get the results, might even flirt with relegation, and underachieve performances, but in the longer run it opens up potential. Leicester almost got relegated in 2014 with a team containing the then inexperienced Schmeichel, Drinkwater, Morgan, Simpson, Mahrez and Vardy, bottom of the table in mid-April - all six were key regulars in their title-winning side. But that's just one parallel, and every side is different. I doubt even Leicester's wildest dreams foresaw the rapid and incredible rise of Mahrez, Vardy and Kante to the elite level of the game. They got world-class stars turning out for them for one amazing season before they came under pressure to sell them. For us, we had to sell White and we may have to sell Bissouma soon. The hardest part might be not turning into Southampton and becoming just a conveyor belt for talent. But overall, I love what we're doing - impossible not to really at this singular moment in time
I was Potter Out but I've been eating humble pie for quite a while now.
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Indeed...
Getting back on track, anyone else a little worried that we’ll be losing GP by the beginning of next season if we continue to over achieve? Rock and a hard place if we end up top 10
Time for an improved contract to ensure we get massive compensation.
Unless, of course, he wants to stick with this project
Dont think he is leaving any time soon, and when he does it wont really be about the money.
Absolutely nothing wrong with saying it how you see it. It's not as if there was no logic to your position when results were shite (as they were). I've said it many times on here, but I was never Potter out because I could see it for what it was - good quality football and some barely believable bad luck and profligacy in front of goal that I refused to put at the door of the manager. I ended up throwing my ire at Danny Welbeck and I was wrong about that. With hindsight I had made up my mind that he was here for a final big pay-day and when our team was collectively a bag of shite in front of goal, I guess I chose to blame him. I was wrong, Welbeck has been decent for most of this entire calendar year.
This is meant to be a forum where alternative points of view are exchanged. Wanting Potter out when results were shit is perfectly reasonable, and equally other people don't have to agree with it. On the other hand, if people express shit dumbass opinions then they can expect to be laughed at. The worst thing is the sort of horseshit from yesterday and this morning with know-it-all cocks having a pop at people like you and [MENTION=316]Albion Dan[/MENTION] - it gets right on my tits. Some of these people doing the tedious gloating are absolutely not the sort of people who have a clue about football.
Weststander
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The guy from Solihull has an aura about him, Spuds fckd up in not appointing him.
https://talksport.com/football/947286/graham-potter-brighton-tottenham-spurs-nuno-espirito-santo/
https://talksport.com/football/947286/graham-potter-brighton-tottenham-spurs-nuno-espirito-santo/
Weststander
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Graham’s running multiple accounts on Redcafe.
Would he have gone?
They’re going nowhere, as far as I can see.
Kane unhappy etc…..
Man Utd would be interesting for him, but could he cope with the ego’s?
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My guess is that they asked GP this summer and he told them - literally - to **** off and die.
Sid in the Sharknado
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At the moment, Tottenham Manager is one of those jobs where anybody who actually wants it should be immediately disqualified on grounds of insanity.
Yes - and as a club they seem to be albeit slowly…..
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