Graham Potter

[stubbo]

https://www.whufc.com/news/graham-potte ... head-coach

​​​​​​In the past he's favoured a 3-4-3 formation...hard to see how we can do that currently with only 3 senior CBs, one of whom is injured. He's also played wingers (Solly March as an example) in the wing back roles.

Typically when a 3-4-3 gets announced on a match day the manager is immediately described as being too negative, too cautious etc. I guess it depends on the composition of the 4.

He's given young players chances...hopefully that continues at West Ham.

Welcome Graham.

 

[zico]

Looking forward to Potter if nothing else for the fact that I'll be able to undesrtand him in interviews!

[El Scorchio]

Lets hope Sullivan lets Potter have some input into the recruitment and has not already got him a player or two as a gift via Salthouse, Silkman, Mackay etc as a “gift” like he did with BFS, Bilic, Moyes 

Potter’s identification of players will tell us where he sees weaknesses in the squad and obviously what positions. Also type of player might indicate if he is going to go all out on his possession and pressing tactics or he compromises to buy time to implement his preferred tactical system by having us play on the counter and with a mid block like several clubs are doing now in the Prem inclyding Forest. Would likely suit Fullkrug as a target up front but also Summerville and Kudus who are best with space to run into. Also Alvarez and the CBs wont be asked to step up into a pressing action ( they dont do it well and too slow in some cases ) and hence less prone to giving it away and being way too open.

Not going to see much for a few games though I would suspect?

Potter would be great hosting “Jazz Club” ? 

Just being on the same page/having the same philosophy as TS would be a huge leg up from before. At least it'll only be a two way power struggle with them vs Sullivan and his fucking whims and his cronies rather than a struggle between all three of them.

[frank marker]

Brighton under Potter became a bit of a bogey team for us iirc and part of the reason was they were much more physical. I wonder if we'll see a change in this direction and which, if any, players will not be up for it.

[Eastside surge]

Potter out potter out BOOOOOO!!!!!
( Just practicing)

[Mike Oxsaw]

I wonder what back room staff he will bring with him.

 

 

The Brighton  Bum Boys & Benders Brassiere Back Room KY Massive?

[Sir Alf]

Player development of any sort will be most welcome.  I expect to see young men like Ings, Antonio, Fabianski, Cresswell, Fullkrug, Emerson, Areola, Coufal, Soucek transform the way they play

Being slightly more serious, if he could bring a few of the the recent successful U21 team thru into the first team and squad, it would gain him a lot of fan support.

initially it will just ve interesting to see if he implements a more pragmatic ( defend bit deeper in 4-2-4 or something) and look to counter rather than trying to play like a side that can dominate the possession and other teams. We dont have the players for it unless Salthouse and Sullivan surprse us all by bringing in a box to box midfielder etc in Jan. 

[LJC]

I wonder what back room staff he will bring with him.

[stubbo-admin]

Lets hope Sullivan lets Potter have some input into the recruitment and has not already got him a player or two as a gift via Salthouse, Silkman, Mackay etc as a “gift” like he did with BFS, Bilic, Moyes 

Potter’s identification of players will tell us where he sees weaknesses in the squad and obviously what positions. Also type of player might indicate if he is going to go all out on his possession and pressing tactics or he compromises to buy time to implement his preferred tactical system by having us play on the counter and with a mid block like several clubs are doing now in the Prem inclyding Forest. Would likely suit Fullkrug as a target up front but also Summerville and Kudus who are best with space to run into. Also Alvarez and the CBs wont be asked to step up into a pressing action ( they dont do it well and too slow in some cases ) and hence less prone to giving it away and being way too open.

Not going to see much for a few games though I would suspect?

Potter would be great hosting “Jazz Club” ? 

Potter is a classic Head Coach...has never been responsible for player identification in his importand jobs (Brighton, Chelsea).

If anything he's more atuned ot the Steidten/Sullivan player picking model than Lopetegui.  He may be able to improve coaching, but not a chance he improved player identification.

[RBshorty]

IT WON"T MATTER. WE ARE FUCKED.!

[Sir Alf]

Lets hope Sullivan lets Potter have some input into the recruitment and has not already got him a player or two as a gift via Salthouse, Silkman, Mackay etc as a “gift” like he did with BFS, Bilic, Moyes 

Potter’s identification of players will tell us where he sees weaknesses in the squad and obviously what positions. Also type of player might indicate if he is going to go all out on his possession and pressing tactics or he compromises to buy time to implement his preferred tactical system by having us play on the counter and with a mid block like several clubs are doing now in the Prem inclyding Forest. Would likely suit Fullkrug as a target up front but also Summerville and Kudus who are best with space to run into. Also Alvarez and the CBs wont be asked to step up into a pressing action ( they dont do it well and too slow in some cases ) and hence less prone to giving it away and being way too open.

Not going to see much for a few games though I would suspect?

Potter would be great hosting “Jazz Club” ? 

[THUNDERCLINT]

Should have gone for Fonseca. Hope nonce beard realises he's just whored himself until Sullivan can get Alegri in the summer.

[cholo]

Looking forward to Villa a lot more now. Hopefully the so called new manager bounce works out for us but to be honest I'd just be happy to see the players respond positively, I'm not expecting miracles.

[BRANDED]

Would be happy to see an English Manager managing the team. Gonna be fucking hard though.

[Crassus]

Exactly as I felt with the odious Moyes departing and Lops arrival, I'm not conflating my joy with Potter's arrival  

Aside of the Chelsea debacle, I'm minded that prior to Potter leaving Brighton there were plenty of theirs wanting him out, seem to remember the complaint of conceding too many goals and couldn't organise a defence

Obviously want him to do well, but hold reservations
Comes across as a nice enough bloke, but I'm inclined to suggest 'nice bloke' is not the circumstantial prerequisite to succeed in the Stratford mad house 

[Mex Martillo]

Here we go again.
Potter’s career reads a bit like an English version of Lopetegui!
Hope it works out this time.

[Trilby55]

He’s gonna find it tough . My local team have better defenders . 

[Mike Oxsaw]

Good. Now for Some Potter's Wheeling & Dealing.

[Pav BML]

I am actually looking forward to going to games again. Given some of the other awful names I have seen linked with us, I think this is a good appointment for where we are at right now. The fans need to get behind him and hopefully a bit of optimism can come back. Obviously I would have loved Silva but realistically he wouldn't leave Fulham for us right now. What Potter did in Sweden was amazing, did well at Swansea and Brighton. Chelsea was too big for him but I am sure he will do well for us. The football should hopefully improve but his main concern for now is sorting this mess of a defence out 

[Manuel]

Roll necks aside I'm looking forward to his first presser. After a long break and what happened at Chelsea he will be refreshed and fired up and hopefully has more knowledge now.

[southbankbornnbred]

Good on him - hope Potter does well.

Maybe he can find us a loanee or two, or a cheap buy, who can galvanise the side this season.

There's a lot to fix.

[Ladysmith]

I love all this 'Lope acted with dignity' bollocks. Where was his dignity when he was spinning his Real Madrid contract whilst manager of Spain. And when he was talking to Sullivan whilst Moyes was still charge. 

Fuck him. Useless cսnt. Top level football is full of wolves. You can't feel sympathy for an attacked wolf when the same wolf has done the same to other wolves. All as bad as one another. 

I like the connection there because he also managed Wolves

...............twat!

Fuck off to a Spurs forum you yid cսnt

No it's ok I will stay on the forum of a team I support.

Besides, I have made some goof friends on here!

[Iron Duke]

I think it’s a good appointment considering we only go for out of contract managers so that we don’t have to pay compensation. He wasn’t my first choice and he was shit at Chelsea, but we would have taken him when he was at Brighton, and I would have had him for the England job over the Kraut skeleton.

It may not work out. If I was a needy twat I could state from the off that this is a terrible decision. Eventually, most managers get sacked or let go so eventually I would be proved right.

[Russ of the BML]

I love all this 'Lope acted with dignity' bollocks. Where was his dignity when he was spinning his Real Madrid contract whilst manager of Spain. And when he was talking to Sullivan whilst Moyes was still charge. 

Fuck him. Useless cսnt. Top level football is full of wolves. You can't feel sympathy for an attacked wolf when the same wolf has done the same to other wolves. All as bad as one another. 

I like the connection there because he also managed Wolves

...............twat!

Fuck off to a Spurs forum you yid cսnt

[Russ of the BML]

Russ 15.17, you are making a false equivalence if you consider conversations between Sullivan and Jalopy the same as what is going on now between Potter and Sullivan.

Right now we have an incumbent manager, just a few months into a contract who is pending dismissal, whereas when Sullivan was speaking to Jalopy, and several others it turns out, Moyes was in a running down contract that was not being renewed. 


 

So what? Moyes was still in charge and working with the team knowing that the club were talking to other coaches. The point is its all about looking after number one. Lope has proved he doesn't care about other clubs when he looked after himself so why are people so bothered. 

[Russ of the BML]

I love all this 'Lope acted with dignity' bollocks. Where was his dignity when he was spinning his Real Madrid contract whilst manager of Spain. And when he was talking to Sullivan whilst Moyes was still charge. 

Fuck him. Useless cսnt. Top level football is full of wolves. You can't feel sympathy for an attacked wolf when the same wolf has done the same to other wolves. All as bad as one another. 

 

Not true. Real Madrid decided to pay up the paltry compensation on his National Teams contract extension clause...

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg ... id-manager

Lopetegui did fuck all wrong and Rubiales decided to throw his toys out of his pram and to fuck him off on the eve of the World Cup anyway. He should have negotiated a more water tight contract that didn't allow for that to happen.

I didn't say he did anything wrong. But he did speak to Real Madrid and negotiate a deal with them behind Spain FA's back. He looked after number one. Nothing wrong with that. But I do find it hypocritical that people feel sympathy with him when he himself is not part of the moral brigade.