Looked over by West Ham it seems, so if he wants the PL, I'm not sure where he thinks he's going.
Graham Potter | West Ham manager
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Seems like something Utd recruitment would take advantage of
Would not be surprised if something happens at Brighton this summer.
Wow. Its mad that grand old names of European football like Ajax and Bayern are taking so many rejections and struggling to find a new head coach.
Funny how greed gets the better of some people. As if what he was being offered isn’t enough anyway. There millionaires. Any normal person would jump at 3x less.
His contract was still worth around £50m at the time of his dismissal. They came to an agreement where Chelsea wouldn't put all of that, but instead a 'significant sum.' So we don't know how much, but it's a lot and he may well have gotten it all upfront.
I bet he's waiting for the England job to open up this summer
Yep, football is all about greed nowadays.
One million per month for 5 years. He doesn't have to ever work again.
Total 60 million. If you put 60 million on US stock market, and you take out 4% per year, this means 2.4 per year, or 200k per month. Forever.
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Bloody hope not ….don’t want Southgate hovering around Old Trafford
Yeah, Southgate, the guy who got Middlesbrough relegated, and kept them relegated. What can go wrong?
Using this logic it's possible he could also get us relegated which wouldn't be cool
Greedy? More likely he's so well off he can sit back and take his time finding the job that he feels is 100% right for him. Career wise he can't afford to get this one wrong after the Chelsea spell.
It’s still Potter rather than Southgate x 100. If Ineos go for Southgate (god help us) and it was instead of Potter, then I truly give up
I would be surprised if they can pay him a quarter of that.
Lower end PL managers are on 3-4m a year at best, and the poorest team probably have similar budget to Ajax (their revenue is in the ~€200m range, PL TV money alone is £91.7m guaranteed).
There’s also the fact that they aren’t in the CL and their board and club have been in turmoil the last couple of years. Not a lot of upsides going there now, I wouldn’t chalk it all down to the bag.
Focus is rightly on Potter but as someone who grew up on Scottish football I still chuckle at ex-Clyde and Hamilton manager Billy Reid being his assistant, especially at Chelsea. Maybe he's the real key to Potter's success. 
He’s holding out for the England job once we hire Southgate.
I don't really blame Potter for not fancying Ajax. Yes they are a big name but they have fallen from grace quite spectacularly in recent years.
They are looking for their 5th manager since Ten Hag left, they have been through the Overmars scandal and then his replacement Mislintat was a disaster, Van der Sar stepped down as CEO, they have a fairly poor squad and are currently 5th with the prospect of no European football next season.
So they aren't exactly an attractive proposition at the moment and to be honest Potter will more than likely be offered a better job.
They are looking for their 5th manager since Ten Hag left, they have been through the Overmars scandal and then his replacement Mislintat was a disaster, Van der Sar stepped down as CEO, they have a fairly poor squad and are currently 5th with the prospect of no European football next season.
So they aren't exactly an attractive proposition at the moment and to be honest Potter will more than likely be offered a better job.
Rumours are West Ham are replacing Lop with him.
What is it with West Ham and always hiring managers who washed out at bigger clubs?
Potter isn't washed in any way, you are widely off-mark there. Chelsea was clueless how to deal with their squad back then and didn't give him even a chance.
Not the point I was making.
I mean, they do have a nice squad to work with but I'm a bit annoyed with him that he didn't take the Ajax job, unless there was something else going on there that we aren't privy to. He's a good coach and West Ham is not a bad landing spot, compared other teams he was linked to before like Everton and Leicester.
West Ham is a great club to join for him. No danger of relegation, they have a really good squad and room to grow.
Would be a sensible option for West Ham at this point.
Be great to see Potter back. We need more British coaches / managers in the premier league and Potter is capable of managing at this level.
The worry with West Ham is the board, they didn't fancy Moyes who was excellent for them and hiring Lop was never going to pan out well. The West Ham board seem erratic at best
Not the best summer transfer window and Potter will need to pick up a disjointed out of sorts team and get them playing attacking football pretty quickly.
Quite a lot of work for him to do - GK, Full Back depth, CM and ST look like they need some attention.
Never got the logic to let Ward-Prowse leave, think Potter may fancy him back
Be great to see Potter back. We need more British coaches / managers in the premier league and Potter is capable of managing at this level.
The worry with West Ham is the board, they didn't fancy Moyes who was excellent for them and hiring Lop was never going to pan out well. The West Ham board seem erratic at best
Not the best summer transfer window and Potter will need to pick up a disjointed out of sorts team and get them playing attacking football pretty quickly.
Quite a lot of work for him to do - GK, Full Back depth, CM and ST look like they need some attention.
Never got the logic to let Ward-Prowse leave, think Potter may fancy him back
Do you think so? I personally find that they are the most trigger happy club outside of the top 6.
If he is as good as people think he could be then he shouldn't have a problem with that though. In terms of the actual squad he'd have available upon joining, the profile of the club, location, room to get better (challenge for Europe more frequently) etc...It's all set up to do that.
They're one of those clubs where the fanbase feel they have a 'heritage', at least in terms of the way they play. Probably because they won the World Cup in '66 and all that...
Spurs are another. Even though for the first decade or so of my life WH were a yo-yo team between the top 2 divisions, and Spurs have never won anything. Well there was that league cup that one time, I guess.
It's why they sacked Moyes, even though he'd actually won a trophy. Doesn't matter how stable and solid their team is, they always think they should be up higher in the table and playing good football. I guess all fans think like this, in one way or another, but can't help but feel they're a lot more self destructive with it.
Think Dyche will go before Lopetegui, and Everton will take Potter first. Or Potter has already decided on Everton, and that's why Lopetegui hasn't officially left / been sacked.
I still rate Potter highly and think this would be a good appointment. West Ham should be safe given the state of the teams below them, so should get time to implement his style.
Why has Potter been jobless for so long?
Still spending all that Chelsea cash!
Rumours now we are also interested.
Surely he would be a bad fit for Everton after years of them buying players for Dyche? Play very different styles.
I wouldn't say we have exclusively bought players for Dyche (Ndiaye the most obvious recent example).
West Ham have Kudus, Bowen, Fullkrug, Paqueta, Summerville, Alvarez, Soler, Todibo.
It is a great squad that is severely underperforming. I think it’s an astute choice from him if he chooses to come back in there. It should be quite easy to have an immediate impact with those players.
It is a great squad that is severely underperforming. I think it’s an astute choice from him if he chooses to come back in there. It should be quite easy to have an immediate impact with those players.
Are you sure that's West Ham you're talking about? That sounds like our shopping list