Mindboggling
Graham Potter | turns down Ajax job
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Mindboggling
Would be safer than Jose at Newcastle and suddenly asked to visit a Saudi embassy...
Must be a united requirement -- Polyglots only apply. Maclaren, fergie and now moyesy.
Moyes is Scottish.
He's been anglified.
I'm obviously hugely enjoying how shite Chelsea are but Potter seems a decent man so it's not as fun seeing him struggle this badly.
One who happily poached half of Brighton's staff and publicly throws Tuchel under the bus by claiming the players thought they had the worst preseason ever?
Yeah I think I'll reserve my sympathies. He's on a long contract there anyway so will be very handsomely compensated if hes given the boot.
Don't really think any of that is enough reason to dislike him.
He seems brutally out of his depth so it's hard not to feel sorry for him even though of course there are many many more people worse off than him. I'm at least enjoying Chelsea being appalling though, that's been lovely to see.
Tuchel had nothing to do with our bad pre season (the issue was when and where the games were, not the training sessions). Tuchel at the time moaned about it. Potter was agreeing with Tuchel, not throwing him under a bus.
I don't think that was aimed at Tuchel was it? He said pretty much the same thing.
Fair enough, don't really know the context behind Chelsea's preseason.
It was loads of traveling and super hot temperatures apparently. Tuchel said this at the time:
"A lot of travelling, another time zone, a totally different feeling of temperature, huge humidity, so very demanding for first training and the players are struggling with the heat. We give maybe more time and space to drink – more break – but we can’t hide from the fact we’re in pre-season and we have to, somehow, put kilometres into the legs. From this point, we don’t adapt."
This pre-season excuse is so ridiculous - apart from half the players not even there - they played 3 matches in the US and one in Italy. We do more every year. This pre-season we played last summer involved one in Thailand, two on the east coast of Australia, one on the west coast of Australia, back up to Norway and then to Manchester - six matches in all.
Yep, lets not forget that when he took over he had 2 weeks when the queen died to train with the squad with no matches. He has enough time to get his principles through to the team. There was then the WC break and post WC he had time. In Jan, they has 1 game a week.
Pre-season only applies to the first handful of games, after that you really do have enough mileage on the legs to be fully on top of things.
agreed. they should head off for the likes of milan, madrid, barcelona, before coming back and seeing if they can hack it at the likes of fulham. only then could they be considered ready for someone like spurs. then it’s the big teams after that.
Yeah, a decent man who has blamed everything and taken no responsibility for not being able to coach a team to hit the side of a barn with a bazooka for months.
Ill be honest, I'm very surprised how Potter has struggled so badly at Chelsea.
Too soon to remove him but it does not look great for him at all.
Too soon to remove him but it does not look great for him at all.
What does taking responsibility actually mean in this context? Ole took a lot of responsibility for what happened last year for us. Rangnick didn't. Both were terrible. Not sure if that makes a difference other than a moral victory.
An admission that he hasn't been good enough? These were quotes from after the Spurs game and he was presented with some unflattering stats from the past few months.
Late but good, I guess.
Very juicy indeed!
Personally, I think the ultimate would be seeing him take over Liverpool after a Klopp sacking. Just imagine letting him loose among all those hurt feelings and bruised confidences.
I'd rather lose than watch Howe's football week in week out
People don't seem to have noticed that Liverpool have steadied the ship and could be back in the top 4 chase if they win on Sunday. Klopp is going nowhere.
I don't think Klopp is going anywhere either. It's just a lovely thought, isn't it.
Arsenal travelled the same amount of miles, played in the same conditions, and beat the crap out of us. I was there in Orlando for the game. We were awful. These preseason excuses are seriously lame. That being said, winning in preseason is not always a big deal, getting players conditioned and ready for the season is the real importance. All the excuses just set the mindset for the beginning of the season.
Chelsea fear hand could be forced on Graham Potter as crunch games arrive
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/mar/03/chelsea-graham-potter-leeds-dortmund
Surely deliberate timing and placement of this story. Done by Boehly as a way to justify the sacking of Potter if both games are lost?
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/mar/03/chelsea-graham-potter-leeds-dortmund
Surely deliberate timing and placement of this story. Done by Boehly as a way to justify the sacking of Potter if both games are lost?
They aren't losing to Leeds at home
Come down budy, he is performing better than your whole team.
Big day today in that we can see the first big sack of the season with tens of millions of pounds going the way of someone's bank account!
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They can still drop points. They are toothless in front of goal and aren't exactly buttoned up at the back...plus Kepa has come back down to earth a little bit, but he's been their best players under Potter.
Think they'll give him time till they exit the champions league on Tuesday.
Hoping for a Chelsea win. Potter must stay. Terrific manager.
Anything seems possible for them these days
What if Chelsea sacks Potter and signs Di Zerbi to carry on with the project? Continuity, no?
Exactly. That’s the problem.
I watched the Fulham v Leeds match in the week, Leeds were pretty good all game, and lost to two excellent shots, but during the game had twice as many shots on goal than Fulham, plus had, what I thought, was a perfectly good goal ruled out. Mind you, Chelsea create a fair few chances, but can't seem to score, so it could be 0-0.
It would be shocking, though not surprising, if Leeds left the bridge with three points today.