Agree - some of the narrative on here (and elsewhere) that he's a rubbish coach, and did nothing significant at Brighton, is ridiculous. He revolutionised our playing style over 2 seasons without taking is backwards, which is difficult in the PL and he received a lot of credit for it at the time. These things don't happen overnight, it's far more than just running a few new drills and choosing a different formation - the entire club has to change how they operate.
From the outside it looks like ManUtd post Ferguson when his departure left a power vacuum that has lasted a decade where internally battles of who is in charge of what raged behind the scenes. ToddB has come in and stripped out the old wood and just thrown a load of new timber he got from the merchants and asked everyone to turn it into a furniture set. They're still arguing over the design of it let alone making it.
The question has always been, can he do it at the top level.
Yes - and I'd add the challenge when dealing with a club that is restructuring entirely. At Brighton he already had a good setup, but at Chelsea they still need to build that (after recruiting all the staff).
How can our turn around in goalscoring form have been a result of Graham and his team? He’d been manager for ages then all of a sudden we started scoring lots of goals, I just think it was a purple patch, although it does seem coincidental it coincides with Mac/Caicedo pairing in midfield.
Because everything else had been building, with the goalscoring being the last piece of the puzzle. He'd got Trossard performing at the levels we all hoped he could, and found a way to get the most out of Gross - those two alone made a huge difference.
I just think you’re giving Potter too much credit, I’m with you he did a fantastic job here aided by an exceptional recruitment team but it’s easy to be clouded into an extreme view on either side.
I agree on your last paragraph, I don't think he's a good fit for Chelsea and despite employing a good portion of our backroom staff, they don't seem to be implementing the same strategy (unless they are for the long-term, which we aren't seeing yet).
I hadn't thought of it in those terms, of Abrahamovic being the glue like sir Alex and Wenger. It probably hasn't helped that all of the key players off the field have been replaced.
Sounds like a highly improbable clause, never heard of such a thing sounds like it would be illegal.
I was delighted he left if people want to rave over a handful of games under Potter that’s up to them. You could predict the outcome before kick off the majority of the time.
I was convinced that once he had an expensively assembled squad he would do the business. I thought it was the lower quality of player that caused the poor runs.
I think it is fairly likely he'll have a break regardless what his contract says. He's been in a job for 12 years now without any breaks (or sackings as it is also called), which is basically unheard of these days. Its a 16 hour per day job really, I imagine he must be quite exhausted.
Well he knocked that out of them pretty well didn't he
