[Football] Potter [NOT] at Chelsea

[Icy Gull]

He will be back but given what must have been an incredibly stressful few months I’d expect him to take a break from football until the summer window. Good idea to be more circumspect about choice of club next time, his saddle bags will be full of life changing money so he should go for a genuine project at a fallen giant, with a good owner in the Championship, who are not a moneybags club. I have no idea who that could be though. I actually expect him to end up at Palace though

I no longer want him to fail and hope to see him resurrect his career….unless he does end up at Palace of course, I don’t want to see their slide arrested.

 

[El Presidente]

He's a good coach, a decent man and I wish him all the best. The Albion progressed under him exactly as he predicted to Bloom and Barber. Boehly is a sleazy scumbag who neither likes or understands football.

 

[West Upper Seagull]

Agree. They are much more likely to go for a big name manager used to dealing with top players and their egos. It would be far too much of a risk after the failure of the Potter experiment.

I think Spurs however could go for RDZ, especially if Chelsea nab their favoured candidate.

Not so sure about Spurs. When we signed RDZ I remember him saying he had specific demands about how he likes to run the team, which fitted with Tony’s vision, I’m not sure Levy would allow him the freedom he wants and if RDZ knows Conte he’ll get some honest feedback from him !

 

[Weststander]

Both Bruno and Saltor still at the club?

You can take that with a pinch of Saltor.

 

[Weststander]

He's a good coach, a decent man and I wish him all the best. The Albion progressed under him exactly as he predicted to Bloom and Barber. Boehly is a sleazy scumbag who neither likes or understands football.

There goes your exclusive, within an inside track, on the finances of Chelsea

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

He's a good coach, a decent man and I wish him all the best. The Albion progressed under him exactly as he predicted to Bloom and Barber.

True. Some things he could have done better - but same for any of us.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

On an individual level I bet there’s a part of him that’s massively relieved it’s over. A lie in and a full English has helped worse situations in the past

At least Bruno gets to chose the music on the drive up to Cobham this morning

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

I wonder if Bruno will get Salter in as his assistant?

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

Just heard the news....

 

[JBizzle]

He's a good coach, a decent man and I wish him all the best. The Albion progressed under him exactly as he predicted to Bloom and Barber. Boehly is a sleazy scumbag who neither likes or understands football.

Spot on. The thing is, Chelsea are still Chelsea. You simply cannot begrudge an ambitious manager for wanting to test himself at the highest level, it's just a real pity that it happened at Chelsea.

"Hey, Mr Potter? Come here and we'll surround you with your mates, pay you £10m a year and give you time to create a tight group of players to build a serious team"

[Narrator: But Chelsea did not give him time...]

Instead they bought him 25 tricky but flaky attacking midfielders but, crucially, no striker and inflated the squad to an unmanageable size with players bought purely because other clubs were interested or because they happened to be in the BBC Gossip column that day.

Winstanley seems to have fully reverted to the Locadia/Jahanbakhsh days too, which is easy to do if you're not being pointed at players by Bloom's magic data wand

 

[Screaming J]

Winstanley sounds like a peice of work, Tony could have been secretly pleased to get rid.

From what I've heard it wouldn't be the first time he's done this; although at the Albion it was someone considerably more junior.....

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

From what I've heard it wouldn't be the first time he's done this; although at the Albion it was someone considerably more junior.....

Of course it’s going to be alright Graham, I’ve got your back

 

[Weststander]

Of course it’s going to be alright Graham, I’ve got your back

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The rotting teeth …. the giveaway.

 

[jackalbion]

I think a lot people are getting very upset with the idea of laughing at Potter. I wouldn’t have if it wasn’t for the weird easy life digs, very strange all round. He jumped ship when he got greedy when everyone could have told you this would happen. He lives a richer man, but all this bollocks about wanting to progress his career was nonsense, he won’t get another top job for a long time, if ever.

 

[Robinjakarta]

A lot on here saying Potter to Leicester.

I can’t imagine a worse fit.

A manager unproven at battling relegation and who is supposedly best when he has a “project”, and most importantly, time.

And most managerial appointments seem to be when there has been a perceived failure of the previous incumbent.

So I honestly can’t see Potter getting a job in the near future in the Premier League.
Maybe some Championship clubs will take a punt at the end of the season.

Southampton?

 

[Gwylan]

Southampton?

Yeah, that's the obvious fit. He can take a few months off and then toddle down to St Mary's after a break. He wouldn't have to move house and be at a club with reasonable expectations.

 

[Hotchilidog]

Potter should never have taken the job in the first place. Chelsea were about as anti-Potter as a football club as you could find. A notoriously bad dressing room, an egotistical owner with a load of money and no football-sense whatsoever and an impatient and unforgiving fanbase who were never going to appreciate Graham's methods.

Brighton on the other hand were the ideal club, an intelligent owner who was as rich in patience as he was financially, a club ethos that seemed to match Potter's personality and a set of players willing and eager to learn. After three years GP's plan was finally coming together, we were scoring for fun, picking teams apart and had clawed our way to our highest ever league position. That Potter chose to throw all that away for a basket case club like Chelsea just mystifies me.

I'll always appreciate the work he did here, and I wish him no personal ill-will he seems like a very decent bloke, but I will not forgive him for ripping the heart out of this club in three short days and at the time sabotaging our best start to a premier league season and potentially undoing all the progress that we had made. He left us to work for a virtue free club that represents pretty much everything bad in modern football, from the boardroom to the terraces a vile club. The 4-1 defeat that kick-started his demise was one of the sweetest things I have ever witnessed on a football pitch. The victory was a moment of pure catharsis that will be cherished for a long time yet.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Alleluia !

Someone who actually sees and understands the situation for what it is.

You could argue that Potter is probably the most expensive mistake in EPL managerial history, but whilst his gamble has failed dismally Todd B hasn’t come down in the last shower, Potter will walk away with a few quid granted, but nothing like the figures currently being bandied around as BN3 rightly points out those words ‘mutual consent’ cover a multitude of sins.


The morning after the night before, prediction time, and I will stand corrected and make a donation to Chestnut Tree House, if it’s incorrect.

Potter will be back in football within 12 months,possibly bottom half of the EPL or more likely Championship, but with the genie well and truly out of the lamp (like when Eubank was beaten for the first time) will be sacked within 12 months of getting his new job.

You seem very sure about Potter’s contract terms despite having no clue what is in it. Mutual consent just means both parties have agreed to termination of employment. Those terms remain confidential and could range from he gets nothing to he gets his contract paid up. I can’t think of a single reason Potter would leave without what his contract entitles him to. I would imagine some form of non disclosure would have been a part of this weekend’s negotiations and that would have strengthened Potter’s financial hand rather than weakened it but who knows.

 

[Wozza]

I think a lot people are getting very upset with the idea of laughing at Potter. I wouldn’t have if it wasn’t for the weird easy life digs, very strange all round. He jumped ship when he got greedy when everyone could have told you this would happen. He lives a richer man, but all this bollocks about wanting to progress his career was nonsense, he won’t get another top job for a long time, if ever.

He might not get a top-six job, but he'll be back in the Premier League within months, I'm sure.

 

[Nobby]

Southampton?

as they're going down, maybe, but not to keep them up, I don't think