[Albion] "Potter will want to finish his project at Brighton first"

[Justice]

Did the same to join us from Swansea we shouldn’t be surprised. Judas can do one get sacked and disappear into the football wilderness.

 

[The Fits]

It's a real test of the club now and our project. I think we are slightly gaslit by the media- i read after the Gilmour signing stuff like 'Potter pulls off another masterstroke'. At the time that didn't sit right- obviously Potter's influence has been considerable, but there's a huge amount of parts in the BHAFC machine. This is a test of that- post DA AND GP, can we proof that we hadn't simply got lucky in their recruitment and that the club as a whole, the project, can carry on improving?

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

hadnt really considered they have new owners. so the old way of Chelsea operating is invalid.

im scared now.

If anything, the new Chelsea way is even madder than the previous one - sign a load of new players at exorbitant prices, including duplicating certain positions, then sack the coach who presumably sanctioned the signings just after the transfer window closes. If you wanted to attract a coach like Potter with promises of a new long-term plan, wouldn't you give him some say over the players he works with? And as for bringing a self-centred nutter like Aubameyang into the club - why not sign Andone as well while you're at it?

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Did the same to join us from Swansea we shouldn’t be surprised. Judas can do one get sacked and disappear into the football wilderness.

Oh dear you have managed to hide your hate for so long

 

[Justice]

Oh dear you have managed to hide your hate for so long

Don’t hate at all he won me around when he dropped Maupay.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

It would be kind of funny if GP made it a condition of joining Chelsea that they commit to buying back Billy Gilmour and Tariq Lamptey in January. For vastly more than we paid for them, of course.

 

[portlock seagull]

You think Potter is only motivated by money? In all the interviews I have read or seen that doesn't seem likely.

Not only, but he’s going to get paid mega bucks! And have at his disposal. That is what we’re taking about tonight. Of course he’ll go. Anyone thinking otherwise is naive at best, deluded otherwise.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

I am sure players like Gross extended their contracts on the basis that Potter is the manager. I wonder just how unsettled this would make the players. If I was one of them I would be gutted and pretty disillusioned.

 

[Surrey Phil]

These new Chelsea American owners are absolute nutters. If I was GP, I’d bide my time and wait for the right club to come in! GP’s a sensible guy and I think common sense will prevail!

 

[The Fits]

I am sure players like Gross extended their contracts on the basis that Potter is the manager. I wonder just how unsettled this would make the players. If I was one of them I would be gutted and pretty disillusioned.

Unsettled until Poch turns up and lashes the ball into the back of the net from the half-way line, turns to the players and says 'now, get to training lads'. Players will get over it quick enough if the next manager is decent.

 

[Napper]

Finishing the project would be European qualification .

The project is completed to a certain extent.

It would be too risky to hang on and risk us going backwards a bit and him never getting this chance again .

Potter will back himself to get the players Chelsea have on the same wavelength . He doesn’t even need signings . Just needs to pull them all together and get them to all buy into it . Good job to take

 

[amexer]

Just seen Chelsea training ground only about hour away at Cobham so family could stay living here

 

[Weststander]

Finishing the project would be European qualification .

The project is completed to a certain extent.

It would be too risky to hang on and risk us going backwards a bit and him never getting this chance again .

Potter will back himself to get the players Chelsea have on the same wavelength . He doesn’t even need signings . Just needs to pull them all together and get them to all buy into it . Good job to take

Nah. Potter’s a coaching/man-manager star and young, he’d get CL club job offers in the future.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

I've made a comment about him finishing his work here first I think. Events might prove me completely wrong but I think Potter is unlikely to leave mid-season for many reasons, but particularly now because he's all about learning and progression and improvement on a personal and professional level and if you listen to him speak relationships are incredibly important to him in that. There'll be players he's working with that he'll have a vested interest in, not just as footballers but as people, and how he comes across is that all that means a lot to him.

That development and that work will be cyclical and structured along the rhythm of a season and probably into the next, adjusted as they go, but on a trajectory towards some mutually agreed goals (no pun intended). When you're doing that kind of work with someone, and you're that invested in them on a human level, you don't just end something, you work towards a "graceful" finish. That doesn't have to take months, it can be a couple of weeks, but acknowledging ending and having a "good" ending will be important for Potter. I can see him leaving in the summer because that's a natural transition. Leaving mid-season I think would be tough because it'd leave a lot of unfinished work and relationships that don't have that end - I'm sure he'd get over it, but that'd nag at him because it goes against what he's demonstrated as his values. In terms of his project finishing I think that's a big part of it - has he ended well with this team and these players, has he honoured his values? Sounds fluffy, but that's what makes him so good. I think he'd lose a bit of that if he left now.

In the immediate though, the performance of this team is the proof of everything he stands for. Again, I might be proved wrong in the next 48 hours, but I think it'll mean a lot to him to at least finish this season and prove his methods work and can sustain that performance. He's spoken himself about what he's trying to do with the team and the players: now he's got them doing it it's the time to maximise that, enjoy it, and be confident even if it all goes wrong between now and the summer he's still going to be linked with every top job just as he has been for the past 18 months.

Good post

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[taz]

This is happening to fast for it not to be planned and discussed between Potter the club and Chelsea weeks ago, tucal sacked in the morning Potter interview in the afternoon,, no initial resistance from us, no time to even think or talk before jumping on a train to London

 

[Springal]

no time to even think or talk before jumping on a train to London

[emoji23][emoji23] helicopter or car… I don’t think Chelsea would have made him get a train

 

[The Fits]

This is happening to fast for it not to be planned and discussed between Potter the club and Chelsea weeks ago, tucal sacked in the morning Potter interview in the afternoon,, no initial resistance from us, no time to even think or talk before jumping on a train to London

Yep, the call definitely wasn't cold. If the media is correct Tuchel was going before last night, and probably the new owners decided in the summer they didn't like him. It could've easily been brought up during the negotiations for Cucu. Just a polite enquiry. Potter is likely to have told us 'i'd want to at least see what they have to say'. Call comes in, everything happens.
Ultimately, it will be down to Potter and what he gets from their chairman. Bloom is chill, we get the money or we keep a highly motivated and loyal manager.

 

[willalbion]

That would be my question too, at what point will he consider his job here complete?

When he decides he wants another one (or he’s sacked).

I was trying to think of another Brighton manager who has been poached by a bigger club. I’ve been watching us since 84 and I can’t think of any. Did Mickey Adams (first iteration) get ‘turned’?

 

[willalbion]

Yep, the call definitely wasn't cold. If the media is correct Tuchel was going before last night, and probably the new owners decided in the summer they didn't like him. It could've easily been brought up during the negotiations for Cucu. Just a polite enquiry. Potter is likely to have told us 'i'd want to at least see what they have to say'. Call comes in, everything happens.
Ultimately, it will be down to Potter and what he gets from their chairman. Bloom is chill, we get the money or we keep a highly motivated and loyal manager.

Fair points but it makes the Aubameyang utterly bizarre. Why would they back Tuchel so heavily in the market if they knew he was getting the push?

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Just seen Chelsea training ground only about hour away at Cobham so family could stay living here

His disguise when out and about needs updating if he was to stay living here