HalfaSeatOn
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In the contract pond, we eat plenty of fish and some eat us. It’s really not worth getting emotional about. Just need our fry to grow strong under the protection of Mr Bloom.
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[Albion] Potters Chelsea contract.
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Would you turn down £1m a month based on not knowing what to do with it?
schmunk
Why oh why oh why?
To be fair to GP, after tax and NI that's only £518k per month in his bank...
Super Steve Earle
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I hope Potter recommends Dan Ashworth to Boehly.
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I have loved Potter from the first match, to me it was instant in what he wanted to achieve.
I would not have wanted him going ever, However 60m, his family and several generations will be set for life. Would any of us turn that down? Probably financial security for decades, properly centuries if it's managed well.
I just can't wait to England come knocking and peel him away from Chelsea.
Goberpiles
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- Feb 25, 2017
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£2m a year to 12 doubt they got much further then that line before he accepted the role!
portslade seagull
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This wasn't a sudden decision in my mind. As others have said he was probably tapped up months ago whilst chelski awaited the ideal moment to ditch Tuchel. To lose the backroom et al takes some doing.
If I were a football manager in his position, I'd have done exactly the same thing. Fantastic opportunity to manager a top club in the Champions League with aspirations to win trophies, an unlimited budget and a massive contract.
He'd have been a complete goon to turn them down. He was awesome for us. I wish him well and look forward to whoever is next
He'd have been a complete goon to turn them down. He was awesome for us. I wish him well and look forward to whoever is next
hoveboyslim
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I read he was on £7-£8m a year at us. He didn't move for the money. That salary just comes with a top four team and he's hardly going to turn it down. We are all hurting but he would have been an idiot to turn the position down. Chelsea have been a basket case with their managers, but it's now under new ownership. The danger for him is that it's come a little early in his premier league career, but this his problem. He's already turned down Tottenham, so to turn down Chelsea (having already been passed over by Man U) could leave him with limited options to manage at the highest level in this country.
Bruno and Roberts really hurts (we knew the others would go as they are all part of Potter's backroom). However, Bruno and Roberts are replaceable. Everyone is. A new manager is now free to bring in their own backroom staff.
It's absolutely gutting this season will be written off, but that's football. I was convinced he was off at the end of the season, so it's just come a little sooner.
Bruno and Roberts really hurts (we knew the others would go as they are all part of Potter's backroom). However, Bruno and Roberts are replaceable. Everyone is. A new manager is now free to bring in their own backroom staff.
It's absolutely gutting this season will be written off, but that's football. I was convinced he was off at the end of the season, so it's just come a little sooner.
I can't see what there is to 'achieve' at Chelsea really. They've already won everything going, so what would he achieve that is new. Apart from trebles or whatever.
The real challenge and sense of achievement would have been with us.
Presumably the 'achievement' is the £60m, so he's done what he wanted now?
The real challenge and sense of achievement would have been with us.
Presumably the 'achievement' is the £60m, so he's done what he wanted now?
- May 8, 2018
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No way we were paying Potter £150k a week when you look at the squad budget.
I would except more likely £40k a week as suggested
I imagine we would have offered new terms but can’t see us doing any better then doubling his wage
- May 8, 2018
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Financial stability via Yoof and a better net spend maybe?
Its all relative to where in life you are. If you earn 40K a year and someone offers you 160K to move to another employer, you are going to go. I doubt you will thinking how the hell will I spend the extra 120K.
At the same time if you work with people who are exceptional at their jobs and there is a spot to fill at your new employers you will see if its possible to bring them over. It doesn't matter if that exceptional person worked at that company for 10 years before you worked there.
Good people are hard to find and when you get them you want to keep in touch and work with them again. I see it all the time, not at the scale with Potter and co.
Ultimately, in a world where people are paid to work for someone there is no such thing as loyalty, if the employed person is performing poorly they will be let go, if they are good then they will move onto better things until they are at the level they wish to get too.
In football this manifests in extremes and the fans emotions override their sense.
The only loyalty in football is from the fans. We are lucky that Tony Bloom is a fan as he has a valuable asset that he could make a very good return on if he wished.
Fans want loyalty from coaches, players, etc only when they are doing well, there is no fan loyalty to any one if they are performing badly.
At the same time if you work with people who are exceptional at their jobs and there is a spot to fill at your new employers you will see if its possible to bring them over. It doesn't matter if that exceptional person worked at that company for 10 years before you worked there.
Good people are hard to find and when you get them you want to keep in touch and work with them again. I see it all the time, not at the scale with Potter and co.
Ultimately, in a world where people are paid to work for someone there is no such thing as loyalty, if the employed person is performing poorly they will be let go, if they are good then they will move onto better things until they are at the level they wish to get too.
In football this manifests in extremes and the fans emotions override their sense.
The only loyalty in football is from the fans. We are lucky that Tony Bloom is a fan as he has a valuable asset that he could make a very good return on if he wished.
Fans want loyalty from coaches, players, etc only when they are doing well, there is no fan loyalty to any one if they are performing badly.
- Nov 3, 2015
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I don’t know, maybe I would, or maybe not, who knows, although I like to think I have a better idea of where my priorities lie than you do. But that’s really not the point. I was really expressing a frustration at a situation where money has the power to make seemingly decent people drop all their principles and morals like a tonne of shit when it is waved under their noses. I’m also still very angry this morning about it all. Having been making really good progress towards Acceptance yesterday lunchtime, with a begrudging understanding of Potter’s desire to move, and knowing I would be following his future career with interest and even wishing him well (despite it being Chelsea), I quickly regressed to Anger yesterday when the ****er and that ****ing football club callously asset stripped our club of so many of it’s best personnel. Just like that. Because they could.
It’s silly and pathetic, because it’s football for Christ’s sake, not real life, and mourning the departure of a well-loved football manager is ridiculous. As it is ridiculous to mourn the passing of a nice old lady you’d never met. But we need these stupid things to take us out of real life for a while every now and again, don’t we?
Thank you for listening, I feel a bit better now.
swindonseagull
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Rubbish
He will be paid into some offshore fund the same as most rich people, he will have an accountant to safeguard his wealth.
It’s only us plebs who pay tax and NI
We got given a cost of living payment of £500 last month,
After tax and NI I got just over 320…
That was enough to push some guys into a higher tax bracket so they actually lost out….
How true it is I don’t know but I heard some guys lost child allowance because of the hardship payment!!!
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Perkino
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- Dec 11, 2009
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Chelsea haven't competed for titles for a while and they will see Potter as someone who can bring improvements by developing players from their academy. This is a big appointment for Chelsea as it suggests a change of approach and could see them close the gap on the top two
Just as a complete aside I am pleased to see his package quoted as its total (£60m over 5 years) rather than being broken down as £231,000 a week as is usual for footballers salaries.
Sorry just a little bugbear of mine. They quote football players salaries in 'thousands' so it still sounds vaguely relevant to ordinary working people, rather than saying so-and-so is being paid 70, 80, 90 million for playing football. (And yet in cricket when Joe Root's money went up to £20,000 a week everybody said: "Wow! A million a year!"
Sorry just a little bugbear of mine. They quote football players salaries in 'thousands' so it still sounds vaguely relevant to ordinary working people, rather than saying so-and-so is being paid 70, 80, 90 million for playing football. (And yet in cricket when Joe Root's money went up to £20,000 a week everybody said: "Wow! A million a year!"
- Jul 10, 2003
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It is an eye-watering amount of money but alongside it, Chelsea have committed to a 5 year contract, for him and his entire coaching team (and recruitment specialist), and be part of the selection team for a new Sporting Director.
If you had just bought a company and were trying to convince a key prospective employee that it was all about the long term project you couldn't do much more (and seeing this, the move makes more sense for Potter than in the immediate aftermath, if they are trying to build something long term).
But it's definitely all about the money
I'm not saying I won't Boo
If you had just bought a company and were trying to convince a key prospective employee that it was all about the long term project you couldn't do much more (and seeing this, the move makes more sense for Potter than in the immediate aftermath, if they are trying to build something long term).
But it's definitely all about the money
I'm not saying I won't Boo
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