Graham Potter | West Ham manager
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We don't play West Ham till May 10th!
Nice change from immediately playing teams with new managers and new manager bounce.
Good move for Potter I think. The expectation is rock bottom at the moment and their squad is on paper better than Everton.
And the Premier League gets even stronger...
I think this one's a good decision from West Ham
I think this one's a good decision from West Ham
I agree. Perfect profile of club for potter.
I think he’ll do well there and he seems like a nice bloke so I hope he does well apart from against us obviously
Intrigued how it works out for him. I like him and like he's actually earned managing in the PL without any hand outs for being an ex player - on paper they have quite an exciting midfield in particular that should suit him.
Happy for him. He deserves another chance at a decent PL club.
I wouldn't be surprised if West Ham starts performing well now. At the start of the season, I felt that West Ham had an exciting team and will do well this season.
Thank feck.
Good appointment for them, best coach they could have got. I still have nightmares of when he destroyed us 4-0 under Rangnick.
Will be intriguing to see how he approaches this, especially in comparison to Amorim here. Potter has a very specific way of playing and a system that he believes in and so just as with us right now he is going to struggle implementing that mid season, it was certainly a contributing factor to why things did not work out at Chelsea. I wonder if he will be pragmatic and just tweak things for now to try and get an upturn in results and hold off on the full makeover until the summer.
Doesn't matter when we play them. They've always been game raising cnuts against us
Just in time for Moyes' triumphant return to West Ham sadly
He will do well there , he is a good manager and won’t have the circus of the Chelsea recruitment to deal with.
Would much rather play West Ham early
In his reign than when he has had chance to get them going.
Would much rather play West Ham early
In his reign than when he has had chance to get them going.
Not sure about Potter + West Ham.
Always struck me as a West Ham type manager. Could do well there.
Shame he couldn't get one then.
Its West Ham not Voldemort. Should be alright.
Tell that to Julen Lopetegui
He's clearly a slytherin.
Good appointment for both parties I think.
great appointment as id imagine chelsea will still be paying his wages for the next 3 years.
What’s Erik ten Hag then?
Dobbie of course.
Of course
Perfect club for him really.....well, until they get unrealistic expectations if he has any degree of success.
His Brighton team didn't score a lot of goals, his Chelsea team didn't score a lot of goals.
West Ham currently don't score a lot of goals and their strkers are an injured Antonio, Ings who's scored 5 goals in 3 years and whatever Fullkrug is supposed to be.
Best of luck to him.
West Ham currently don't score a lot of goals and their strkers are an injured Antonio, Ings who's scored 5 goals in 3 years and whatever Fullkrug is supposed to be.
Best of luck to him.
His Brighton side did create a lot though, especially for the wide forwards in the side. You'd think with players like Kudus, Bowen, and Summerville in those positions that it may just click in terms of the goals and not just the xG!
Bowen scored 20 last season and Kudus got 14. So there is a possibility that they could each score another 10+ between now and the end of the season. Summerville looks decent at times, but I don't see him doing too much.
He gets teams playing good football, I don't doubt that. But I just don't see where the goals are going to come from. At Brighton he maybe lacked a proper centre forward (Maupay & Welbeck) although Welbeck is doing good this season. You could probably say the same about Chelsea where he only really had Havertz. And now West Ham looks like a similar sort of situation.
I say that and they've still scored 1 more goal than Utd in the league this season.
Pretty sure Chlesea were paying him up until he got a new job, so West Ham must be paying a hell of a lot to make it worthwhile for him to take the job
i’ve got a mate who shifts a lot of celery and in the circles he’s in, he’s privy to a lot of information. he reckons potter signed a multi-generational contract at chelsea, with his reign only ending with his first great grandchild, or in the event that he or his heirs are unable to produce a son.
Seems like a very sensible appointment for us.
No real expectation that he delivers anything this season - we are finishing somewhere in midtable, probably lower half 11th-14th
If someone tidies up our midfield, we will get back to 6th-9th standard and/or in latter stages of european tournaments , just as we were under Moyes.
British coaches work better at West Ham - they just do - possibly because they find it easier to synch with the ownership.
No real expectation that he delivers anything this season - we are finishing somewhere in midtable, probably lower half 11th-14th
If someone tidies up our midfield, we will get back to 6th-9th standard and/or in latter stages of european tournaments , just as we were under Moyes.
British coaches work better at West Ham - they just do - possibly because they find it easier to synch with the ownership.
How long is Bowen out for?
You’re very light up front. You need goals in your squad
Hope he does well, got treated poorly by us and wrongfully his reputation got a bit burnt because of it.
Any manager who makes Trossard and Neil fecking Maupay look half decent will forever have my attention and respect.
Good luck to him.
Good luck to him.
Good fit for him. Chelsea was too much of a step up.
5 of his first 6 League games are London derbies, no pressure there
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