[Albion] Potter- what’s he up to? (Managing West Ham from 9 Jan)

[raymondo]

I can't find calendar year stats, only PL season stats. Since promotion our goals scored each season in the Premier League is:

17/18: 34
18/19: 35
19/20: 39
20/21: 40
21/22: 42
22/23: 72
23/24: 55
24/25: 30 from 20 games.

So we might get 57 this season?

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Have the Potter fans forgotten he didn’t give a shit about TB/The Albion when he left and took the kitchen sink with him.
We go on about players leaving in the right way he was as bad if not worse as Cucurella in the way he left for Todd’s millions.
Short fecking memories,

How long will you keep going on about it? It's been two and a half years already. Get over it, and move on, most of us have.

 

[Flounce]

He f***ed up at Chelsea.
His permanent successor took one look at the 50 man squad and told 24 of them they are not in the squad.
Just because the stationery supply officer gives you 50 biros doesn't mean you have to put them all out on your desk at once.

Did Poch do that? I thought it was his successor

 

[Justice]

That’s a strange stat as Potter jumped ship in September 2022 so didn’t actually manage us in 2023.

Did Poch do that? I thought it was his successor

Semantics

 

[Flounce]

Semantics

No it’s not, Poch did not reduce the squad to 25 and tell star players they were OUT. FWIW I think Maresca played an absolute blinder doing that.

 

[Wozza]

Why do failed football managers get rewarded when they get the sack and again when they get a new job?

Because they're contractors... in a very important role.

Really, they should be on short-term contracts - but if a club offers a long, lucrative deal, you're going to take it.

Getting sacked doesn't make you a bad manager.

Nuno Espírito Santo, sacked by Wolves, Spurs and others, is currently third in the Premier League with Forest.

Eddie Howe, once dismissed by Burnley, is fifth with Newcastle.

Ex-Arsenal manager Unai Emery went on to win shedloads of trophies with Villareal and has taken Aston Villa to the Champions League.

etc etc

 

[Justice]

How long will you keep going on about it? It's been two and a half years already. Get over it, and move on, most of us have.

What should we discuss on a Potter thread then Snow?

 

[papachris]

You know, when have a break up or get divorced. The more you are upset, can't let it go etc you are only hurting yourself.
Better to concentrate on the new partner

 

[tstanbur]

Because they're contractors... in a very important role.

Really, they should be on short-term contracts - but if a club offers a long, lucrative deal, you're going to take it.

Getting sacked doesn't make you a bad manager.

Nuno Espírito Santo, sacked by Wolves, Spurs and others, is currently third in the Premier League with Forest.

Eddie Howe, once dismissed by Burnley, is fifth with Newcastle.

Ex-Arsenal manager Unai Emery went on to win shedloads of trophies with Villareal and has taken Aston Villa to the Champions League.

etc etc

Great post. You can add the current England manager to the list. Also sacked by Chelsea and Potter took over his mess.

 

[Flounce]

You know, when have a break up or get divorced. The more you are upset, can't let it go etc you are only hurting yourself.
Better to concentrate on the new partner

I think @Justice has even less faith in FH than he had in GP from his recent posts. It’s tough for him I’m sure

 

[Swegulls]

No it’s not, Poch did not reduce the squad to 25 and tell star players they were OUT. FWIW I think Maresca played an absolute blinder doing that.

Thing is, you can toss those three around (GP, Poch, M or M, Poch, GP and so on …) and it’s only the last of them that would be able to set down the foot and kick away half the squad. Non of them would have done it/have the mandate to do it if they were first in line. Situation changed and Boehly changed (even if he wouldn’t admit it).

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Potter will have a new job by end of November

This happens every year. A manager appears on MOTD, or The Overlap (normally an hour chat with Neville and co) and starts on the charm offensive.

Just in time for the first sackings. United, Wolves, Saints potentially.

I think he's played an absolute blinder. Got rich(I don't blame him one jot for it. I'd have done exactly the same), can easily say "Chelsea were a basket case" to defend his record there and will easily get another job.

Dammit. 6 weeks out and I assumed he'd go in the first lot of sackings (which turned out to be almost spot on. Missed Leicester)

It happens every year. A manager just suddenly begins appearing on EVERY TV programme and you go "oh, he's after work again".

 

[Swegulls]

What should we discuss on a Potter thread then Snow?

Would you admit that GP’s done a good job if he take them to Europe, say in a year or two? Or would it be some other circumstances that made them do it?

 

[A1X]

Looking forward to him telling West Ham fans how entitled they are and they need a history lesson

 

[SkirlieWirlie]

How long will you keep going on about it? It's been two and a half years already. Get over it, and move on, most of us have.

Doesn't mean we need to be "made up for him" or happy that WH are lucky to have him... the love in for him getting this move is equally strange if not more so.

 

[A1X]

How long will you keep going on about it? It's been two and a half years already. Get over it, and move on, most of us have.

This is the first time in history that any football fan has held a grudge about anything.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Did Poch do that? I thought it was his successor

I meant the guy in charge now. That'd why I wrote 'permanent' to distinguish from Lampard.

To be honest I'd forgotten about Poch.

 

[Flounce]

I meant the guy in charge now. That'd why I wrote 'permanent' to distinguish from Lampard.

To be honest I'd forgotten about Poch.

I’d forgotten about Lampard

 

[GT49er]

What should we discuss on a Potter thread then Snow?

The thread is "What's he up to", not what he did.

 

[oldboyroy]

Confirmed on Sky Sports as a 2 and half year deal and press conference tomorrow morning with a gleaming Graham