For me he's a very intelligent coach who's worked his way up in obscure leagues with a great philosophy of how modern football should be played.Raptor wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 4:53 pm I'd flip that on its head, why are others so confident he'd do well?
Personally, I think it's largely nothing football, he had relative success in a really well run club, but you could also argue his subsequent successors have done better? Towards the end of his stint the Brighton fans had enough and he was pretty woeful at Chelsea as he's so rigid in his philosophy. I think he'd emulate Lampard, albeit he's probably a bit more tactical aware, but he'd stick to his guns irrespective and we'd plummet.
He had Brighton playing really good possession based football and if they'd had any half decent strikers they'd have been higher up the league without a doubt.
He's also shown he can build a team in his vision, which we desperately need with so many players out of contract in the summer. Obviously some of that was the excellent recruitment at Brighton but he still was able to gel the older senior heads with exciting talent in a really good way.
Chelsea was a bit of a poisoned chalice and so it's hard to judge him on that, but I think whatever the reasons it didn't work out there he's more than capable of doing better here.
Nothing's a given but Potter doesn't seem to be one of these charlatan managers who's all style over substance. He has his teams playing good football but not at the cost of results... Long term I think that could be very fruitful for us in the position we're in moving forward from the summer.
