[Albion] If Graham Potter is re-appointed...

[zefarelly]

He's probably made a minimum £10m after tax, for a few months work, without having to uproot his family.
He's been able to take a two year career break on huge money, and please himself.

I can't see any world where staying with us would be considered a better option.

For a man with no soul or conscience, maybe!

 

[nwgull]

Mental health and quality of life. He wasn’t on a minimum wage at Brighton.

I'd imagine that being financially secure for life in your mid 40s and being able to wait for the right opportunity to come along whilst picking and choosing the occasional bit of punditry would be a good quality life, to be honest.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

I'd imagine that being financially secure for life in your mid 40s and being able to wait for the right opportunity to come along whilst picking and choosing the occasional bit of punditry would be a good quality life, to be honest.

Sounds like the equivalent of winning the lottery to me.

 

[Doc Lynam]

sure - but I would say that taking 2 years off work on more money - would be considerably better for his quality of life and mental health.
Or are you agreeing with me??

You’re failing to add everything else that happened before that. Including the person in question saying his mental health was being affected by it all. But sure going through the meat grinder, publicly, and getting rinsed out the other end with a lot of cash and time on your hand isn’t something I’d view as a positive experience for me or my family.

 

[GT49er]

I imagine your dream scenario is FH crashing and burning over the next couple of months and GP making his comeback at the Albion in December?

Don't see how that follows at all.

 

[nwgull]

Sounds like the equivalent of winning the lottery to me.

Yes. Although, there are some people for whom winning the lottery is not a good thing and they end up pissing it all away on drink, drugs, cars, etc. I'm willing however to predict that Potter's 10m is tucked away in a diversified porfolio of investments and earning him a very tidy passive income.

 

[Stato]

I'm curious that he states it was the right opportunity for him but then bemoans the owners spending 300m on players. Everyone else knew it was the wrong club for him, I'm just surprised he couldn't (and apparently still can't) see it.

To be fair to Potter, he probably just believed Boehley when he said that the old ways went with the old owner and that things would be different. It wasn't as obvious at that point that the bloke had more money than braincells, but Chelsea gonna Chelsea.

Graham's mum should probably have told her little boy the story of the scorpion asking the frog for a ride across the river, or even better, introduced him to Northern Soul:

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Not sure if already posted but I found this interview with him pretty interesting. Wouldn't be hugely surprised to see him rock up at West Ham in the next few months. Every chance the Leicester job he was previously linked with could come up again, along with Everton, maybe Wolves/Saints?

Graham Potter interview: Chelsea was the perfect storm but I’m ready to return

Exclusive: In a first major interview since his Chelsea exit, Potter reveals why he took an extended break... and what he wants to do next

www.telegraph.co.uk

Read it this morning, I wonder if he’d been told he isn’t getting the England job and is now touting himself in the press. Be interesting to see if he starts turning up to do media work in the interim whilst being out of the limelight for 18 months

 

[Seagull58]

Yes. Although, there are some people for whom winning the lottery is not a good thing and they end up pissing it all away on drink, drugs, cars, etc. I'm willing however to predict that Potter's 10m is tucked away in a diversified porfolio of investments and earning him a very tidy passive income.

or wasting it.

 

[sparkie]

Unless Potter has changed his mind about having an easy life he won't be rocking up again to put his feet up at the albion.

Lol.

 

[Withdean South Stand]

It was the right move at the right time for him, it seemed ideally suited to him but then he found out that Boehly actually wasn't so much about the long term and wanted a new manager brought in. Or Potter just wasn't strong enough to put his foot down, or the conditions weren't right for him to do so at that time. Whatever happened - he wasn't wrong for taking the job. I don't particularly like him and I never want to see him back at the Albion, other than bringing whatever team he is managing and getting a pasting, but the truth was it was absolutely the right thing for him to do at the time he made the jump. And PBOBE made it clear that Chelsea behaved properly when approaching us for him, so I have no animosity about it at all. Other than taking Bruno too, that hurt (but we don't need to re-litigate that either!).

 

[PlayMoran]

It's important that he gets his next move right after the Chelsea fiasco.

West Ham can be a toxic environment also. I'd avoid that job if it becomes available.

I actually think Southampton would suit him. They have some talented young players he could work with. But relegation is very much a possibility.

I do wonder if INEOS would take a chance on him at United. Ratcliffe and Ashworth like British.

 

[Oh_aye]

Everton I reckon. And they'll finish him off.

 

[ManOfSussex]

Read it this morning, I wonder if he’d been told he isn’t getting the England job and is now touting himself in the press. Be interesting to see if he starts turning up to do media work in the interim whilst being out of the limelight for 18 months

I thought it was rather obvious who's getting the England job the moment Ashley Cole left his role at Brum a couple of weeks back for a full time one with The FA. Carsley's going nowhere.

 

[Easy 10]

I've said it before, Potter would be a disaster as England manager. His methods take a long time to bed in, as we saw here. He was never given the chance (or likely to) to put those methods in place at Chelsea, where only immediate success is acceptable. It would be the same with England.

He'll rock up at a middling PL club when the panic-season arrives in November / December and the sackings begin. If he fancies it, being as he'll never actually have to work another day in his life.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

I thought it was rather obvious who's getting the England job the moment Ashley Cole left his role at Brum a couple of weeks back for a full time one with The FA. Carsley's going nowhere.

Yes, that’s why he’s suddenly doing interviews or as they say in the media “broken his silence”

 

[Han Solo]

Have always thought only the present manager has had the balls to tell owners what he wants. Has refused to work with 40 plus players . Has picked 25 and told owners up to them what they do with rest

Fab-Hürz does seem to have a confidence that helps him forge way ahead in the manager ranks at an age far younger than most managers. GPott on the other hand does not.

None of Potter and Hurzeler are going to treat 20 people like they don't exist. They indeed don't have the "confidence" to treat people like Chelsea does. That is correct. Remains to be seen how the "confidence" to ignore large parts of your squad will work out in the end.

I'd imagine that being financially secure for life in your mid 40s and being able to wait for the right opportunity to come along whilst picking and choosing the occasional bit of punditry would be a good quality life, to be honest.

Read it this morning, I wonder if he’d been told he isn’t getting the England job and is now touting himself in the press. Be interesting to see if he starts turning up to do media work in the interim whilst being out of the limelight for 18 months

I see you're already in the Liberty cap season down in the UK. Yeah he'll be making Tiktok reels with Carragher and Neville before uprooting his family to manage the insolvent Championship side that is Everton for three months until hell' get sacked for not being able to keep Seamus Coleman & the likes in the Premier League. He's known to be wild like that.

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Seems perfect for West Ham given their current situation. Good luck

 

[Guinness Boy]

The issue with taking two years off is that your football is now two years out of date.

 

[Lenny Rider]

The alleged £600,000 (after deductions) from Chelsea every month must surely be coming to an end soon?

Thankfully it appears he’s out of the frame for the England job, but I’d expect him to pop up at some point, possibly when Wolves make a change, I think it has to be an EPL job, not sure he’d now be cut out for the muck and bullets trying to get a club out of the Championship.