[Football] Has Graham Bitten Off More Than He Can Chew?

[The Fits]

No sympathy for GP and crew but must tough when you’re new to managing a bunch of prima donnas.

But you manage them right? That's what the best managers do. Manage the big time, big ego players.

 

[Swansman]

Interesting point brought up a moment ago was that his attitude in the press conference isn’t great, which then has a knock on to the players.

Also he seems to change the formation every game and during the games, if I was a player I would just switch off, how can you know what you are meant to be doing if it changes game to game and during the game.

Ask Adam Lallana (and others) saying that he is a world class managers how always gets his players to know exactly what to do in every given situation

 

[Arthritic Toe]

It was always going to be like this. GP would take about a season and a half to shape the team and get them playing his way. It is highly unlikely that he will be given time to do that. He will almost certainly be sacked after run of bad results as the clamouring will demand it.

 

[hart's shirt]

"Chelsea's supporters gave their team a sympathetic reception at the end of Thursday's narrow Premier League defeat by City at Stamford Bridge but this was not the case here.

Potter's team were roundly booed at half-time and again by those who stayed until the end, with the manager hearing the uncomfortable sound of his own fans singing the name of his popular predecessor Tuchel.

Chelsea's lack of threat was also reflected in ironic shouts of "shoot" every time they got near goal and chants of "we've had a shot" on the rare occasions they did. This may be a club in transition once again but this display was abject under any circumstances.

Manager Potter is wrestling with an injury crisis but there was no excuse for this dreadful performance."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64193420

 

[GT49er]

I'm finding this quite difficult! Don't get me wrong, I was as pissed off as anybody when GP trotted off to Chelsea, especially as at rhe end of that Leicester match I think my Albion mojo was at the highest it has ever been (except maybe when Gordon Smith planted the ball in the back of ManU's net at Wembley in '83). I was even more pissed off when he took his backroom team - and more - with him. But I didn't hate him personally (or start re-writing history - he did a bloody good job for us!)

It left me (after I'd calmed down a bit) wanting him to succeed - a young(ish) English manager getting a chance at a top 4 club instead of the usual glossy sparkling superstar foreign manager, and at the same time I wanted ghastly chelsea to crash and burn. It will be a real shame if the entitled Chelsea fans get their way and get him sacked and get the sort of Mourinho/Zidane/Pep type of manager they think they deserve. If they do get that, I'll want them to crash and burn even more - but I'd also be disappointed that they will have 'proved' (in many peoples' minds at least) that young(ish) English managers shouldn't be allowed to make the step up.

I really think he needs to bin off three or four of his disrespectful inattentive megastars this window - either by flogging them off if there are any clubs willing to take them on their current wages - or simply leave them to fester in the sticks until the summer. Will he/can he do that? But I'll still have this dilemna - how can Potter succeed and Chelsea crash and burn at the same time?

 

[Pevenseagull]

"Chelsea's supporters gave their team a sympathetic reception at the end of Thursday's narrow Premier League defeat by City at Stamford Bridge but this was not the case here.

Potter's team were roundly booed at half-time and again by those who stayed until the end, with the manager hearing the uncomfortable sound of his own fans singing the name of his popular predecessor Tuchel.

Chelsea's lack of threat was also reflected in ironic shouts of "shoot" every time they got near goal and chants of "we've had a shot" on the rare occasions they did. This may be a club in transition once again but this display was abject under any circumstances.

Manager Potter is wrestling with an injury crisis but there was no excuse for this dreadful performance."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64193420

Shit happens.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

At this point, Potter would clearly like nothing better than a no-blame 'by mutual consent' pay-off so he could retire from the game to establish a holistic ashram on Hove Lawns

 

[banjo]

He’s not that bad

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Ask Adam Lallana (and others) saying that he is a world class managers how always gets his players to know exactly what to do in every given situation

And yet he got a muted reaction from the majority of BHA players on the Amex pitch after the Chelsea game.

 

[pasty]

Why….
He made the choice to join Chelsea a high pressure job, he was obviously confident he could do well, taking several members of our back room staff with him equally confident in their ability to help him.

he and they will be rewarded handsomely even if he fails.

it’s funny

I did say "almost"

I've had a similar experience in leaving a company for a competitor for £10K a year more, but it turned out to be completely and utterly shite and I went crawling back to my former employer with my tail between my legs. Fortunately they took me back without question.

 

[BBassic]

Boos?
Shouts of 'shoot' ?

Chelsea fans should be careful lest they invoke from Potter a scathing remark about history.

 

[Swansman]

But you manage them right? That's what the best managers do. Manage the big time, big ego players.

But who is going to manage them?

Tuchel said this summer that he had a bunch of players that didn't want to play for Chelsea.

It was obvious then and it is obvious now that a lot of people in that club hate Chelsea, their fans, their teammates, their manager, and are full of love for themselves.

That comes down to recruitment: if you sign a lot of players without doing psychological profiling, you have a good chance to end up with a bunch of egomaniacal ****s.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Just read this comment on The Shed End

"This is more the manager than the players. The team is now reflecting the personality of the manager.

Imagine sitting at a table and everyone is eating ribeye and lobster.

And there is one precious little cupcake eating a salad with tomato and cucumber.

That precious little cupcake would be Potter"

They don't seem very happy

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Ask Adam Lallana (and others) saying that he is a world class managers how always gets his players to know exactly what to do in every given situation

Maybe he can only do it with lesser players?

 

[maresfield seagull]

Shallow fux the lot of them

Self deprecating humour Is Always the best

 

[A1X]

I see Potter said he “understands the supporters frustration” post-match. Makes a change, all he ever told us to do was to shut up and learn our history.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

They weren't quite as bad as Southampton or Everton but not a lot better either.

Good point. I sometimes forget that Stains and Everton are still in the premier league.

 

[trueblue]

City can do that to anyone, that said Chelsea looked a bit clueless again.

They don’t normally do it in first gear though.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Radio been saying how the chelsea players look like they are just ignoring Potters instructions on the side line.

Which is nice

In which case Chelsea need to get rid of those players and back GP.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Is it more or less strange than spending 20-25 years trolling the fan forum of a domestic football club..?

It's our community club. I'm part of that community. We've had quite a lot to talk about these past 20-25 years