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[Football] Potter [NOT] at Chelsea

Potter at Chelsea

  • I want him to fail

    Votes: 365 48.2%
  • I want him to succeed

    Votes: 73 9.6%
  • He's gone. I'm indifferent. Graham who?

    Votes: 320 42.2%

  • Total voters
    758


Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
Jordan on TalkSport suggesting that Potter should not have gone on record about the death threats, needs to face up to death threats and deal with them apparently, comes with the territory. Apparently lacking leadership skills. Slightly harsh
 




carlzeiss

Well-known member
May 19, 2009
6,236
Amazonia
Too many players , that appears to be the problem now


Under-fire Chelsea boss Graham Potter feels bloated squad is ruining his training sessions after club splashed out £553m on new players… amid first signs of owners' faith cracking​

 












Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
Too many players , that appears to be the problem now


Under-fire Chelsea boss Graham Potter feels bloated squad is ruining his training sessions after club splashed out £553m on new players… amid first signs of owners' faith cracking​

He does have a point. The Chelsea transfer business model is as wrong as it can be for Potter imo. He obviously didn’t do his due diligence as he rushed to pack his bags.

He made his bed and it must feel full of nails now he’s jumped into it.
 






The Fits

Well-known member
Jun 29, 2020
10,106
Jordan on TalkSport suggesting that Potter should not have gone on record about the death threats, needs to face up to death threats and deal with them apparently, comes with the territory. Apparently lacking leadership skills. Slightly harsh
It is quite harsh. I'm also certain many, many managers would've had anonymous death threats via email/social media.
Wasn't there a banner hanging outside Everton's training ground saying 'we know where you live' on Benitez first day?
Disgusting, all of it, but it surely isn't that unusual.
I guess the question is what does bringing it up in a press conference achieve? I don't think he's handled his pressers very well. (Although totally understandable given his lack of experience of this kind of exposure, pressure and scrutiny).
 




Insel affe

HellBilly
Feb 23, 2009
24,337
Brighton factually.....
He will come good, I still believe. :alien:
yeah probably against us, tonking us 5-0 and he will gloat about he knew it would come together.
He is full of his own self importance, blaming everyone and everything.

he might have a massive squad, but everyone of them would probably walk into any squad in the league, lame excuse for very poor recent results.
It is his swapping and changing and no direct vision.
 






The Fits

Well-known member
Jun 29, 2020
10,106
If he wasn't such a Yes Man he could have had some say in the size of squad he felt he needed
He could also thank the mad Yank for all the players but calmly tell him the majority of the youngsters will be training with the U23s until the summer. He can make decisions about how to manage and coach 30 odd players. First it was too many injuries, now it's too many players.
 


Guinness Boy

Tofu eating wokerati
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NSC Patron
Jul 23, 2003
37,342
Up and Coming Sunny Portslade
He does have a point. The Chelsea transfer business model is as wrong as it can be for Potter imo. He obviously didn’t do his due diligence as he rushed to pack his bags.

He made his bed and it must feel full of nails now he’s jumped into it.
I said this on another thread but I've no idea what MacAuley and Winstanley are doing there, other than swelling their bank balances and LinkedIn exposure.

The recruitment strategy is as "un Brighton" as it's possible to be, as "un Potter" as it's possible to be and totally unsustainable. If their next job is to unload some of the 31, well, good luck getting them to agree and receiving decent money for them. If it's to start a sustainable policy starting in the summer, what on earth has this year been all about? I'd say Boehly has lost the plot, but I'm not sure he ever had it. You cannot get in people from Brighton and just turn it into Brighton when you're paying over the odds for all your players, recruiting Raheem Sterling, coveting Ronaldo and buying three players who all play left centre back without having a striker that the coach trusts.
 
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timbha

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
10,508
Sussex
I said this on another thread but I've no idea what MacAuley and Winstanley are doing there, other than swelling their bank balances and LinkedIn exposure.

The recruitment strategy is as "un Brighton" as it's possible to be, as "un Potter" as it's possible to be and totally unsustainable. If their next job is to unload some of the 31, well, good luck getting them to agree and receiving decent money for them. If it's to start a sustainable policy starting in the summer, what on earth has this year been all about? I'd say Boehly has list the plot, but I'm not sure he ever had it. You cannot get in people from Brighton and just turn it into Brighton when you're paying over the odds for all your players, recruiting Raheem Sterling, coveting Ronaldo and buying three players who all play left centre back without having a striker that the coach trusts.
Sums up the American approach. Thank goodness for Tony Bloom and his principles.
 


Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash
Jul 6, 2003
72,331
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if GP announces his resignation on the grounds of intolerable family pressures. A deal will probably be agreed of say £10m for him to walk away with both sides being able to save face. Pure speculation by the way.
That would doubtless work for Potter. The rest of Potter's merry gang doubtless wouldn't fare nearly so well in any pay-off arrangement. A lot of them must be seriously sweating on their futures already. What a complete car crash
 


sparkie

Well-known member
Jul 17, 2003
13,268
Hove
I don't think Potter can turn round the toxicity against him from Chelsea fans.

He will need some phenomenal achievements now and there will still be some who'll be entrenched regardless.

He needs a break and a fresh start elsewhere. I'm sure there is a deal to be done on the payoff.
 


BNthree

Plastic JCL
Sep 14, 2016
11,453
WeHo
That would doubtless work for Potter. The rest of Potter's merry gang doubtless wouldn't fare nearly so well in any pay-off arrangement. A lot of them must be seriously sweating on their futures already. What a complete car crash
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Stat Brother

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 11, 2003
73,888
West west west Sussex
I said this on another thread but I've no idea what MacAuley and Winstanley are doing there, other than swelling their bank balances and LinkedIn exposure.

The recruitment strategy is as "un Brighton" as it's possible to be, as "un Potter" as it's possible to be and totally unsustainable. If their next job is to unload some of the 31, well, good luck getting them to agree and receiving decent money for them. If it's to start a sustainable policy starting in the summer, what on earth has this year been all about? I'd say Boehly has list the plot, but I'm not sure he ever had it. You cannot get in people from Brighton and just turn it into Brighton when you're paying over the odds for all your players, recruiting Raheem Sterling, coveting Ronaldo and buying three players who all play left centre back without having a striker that the coach trusts.
Stop it 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Its starting to hurt :rotlf:
I want to do a wee-wee.
 


abc

Well-known member
Jan 6, 2007
1,390
Jordan on TalkSport suggesting that Potter should not have gone on record about the death threats, needs to face up to death threats and deal with them apparently, comes with the territory. Apparently lacking leadership skills. Slightly harsh
Agree. The idea that death threats are somehow OK is abhorrent. Potter has had the courage and/or desperation to put such conduct 'out there in the open'. This should start a discussion across football and beyond as to how such abuse can be stopped, not how it is OK because 'it comes with the territory'. This is an example of why gay footballers don't come out. They would get terrible abuse on line or from the stands but some idiots, thinly disguised as pundits, will say 'get over it, its part of the territory'
 


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