What big club gives you time? We've onto our 6th manager since SAF.
Graham Potter | turns down Ajax job
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
You kind of have to hand it to Chelsea how quickly they pulled this off
Feels sorry for Brighton really messed up their great start. But you do understand why he took the job at Chelsea it’s a big step up for him. This you feel is a make or break his career.
When you don't have a say in transfer dealings, not to mention the player power at that club...it's difficult to do well...but don't get me wrong, I don't think Pochettino is some sort of genius on the level of Guardiola / Klopp. Still, I wouln't judge him on his PSG stint.
Feels like a real shame, this. I like Potter but I always want Chelsea to fail.
He dropped them like a bad habit, without a second thought, while they were having the start of their life. I'd be fuming too.
This one is a tough first big job. The team has a weird balance to it, I think the owner is either misguided or still finding his feet (hard to tell this early on), they are notoriously impatient, and the entire hierarchy around the owner has been replaced. Any under performance means being out of the UCL next year so he is under immediate pressure to get the team playing well, without a preseason.
Contrast that with taking over at City for example, or even a place like Barca who despite all their problems have a squad that is guaranteed to get them top four. On the other end of the spectrum, he could’ve gone to an Arsenal where he would be afforded a lot of time and resources.
It’s a bad combination of immediately needing to make an impact, at an impatient club, without a preseason or transfer window, and at a club that has gone through a lot of changes to all the staff that made it what it is in the past few years.
Which big job you take first matters, a lot. It affects perception going forward and his future chances of getting a similar job if he “fails”
Won’t finish this season
It's not like Moyes with us. Still think he'll have enough credit in the bank that if he tanks at Chelsea, he'll still be given the opportunity to be successful somewhere else decent.
To be honest even Leeds would have got 3 points off us the way we played the first 2 games.
15th, 16th, 9th - He's done a great job at Brighton but he's quite fortunate to be offered a job of this size. He'd be crazy not to take it.
Worst that can happen is it doesn't go well, gets sacked with a big payout, and takes the next available midtable PL job.
Worst that can happen is it doesn't go well, gets sacked with a big payout, and takes the next available midtable PL job.
I understand thats football but sure would have liked someone to tide them over until then. Its high standards that have been set by Potter and his staff, for new people to come in and start matching that its going to be tricky. Its a season thats going to be massively disrupted now, have to act fast in getting his replacement in.
Hope Potter gets reamed by every team he faces. Liked him at Brighton, can’t get behind someone leaving and taking the entire staff 6 matches into a season. Gutted the entire Brighton staff, not sure how they’re expected to compete
you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them".
Seriously though, this is a huge gamble. Its obvious they're not just getting a new first team coach, they want the guy to help lead on the reconstruction of the club including the appointment of the DOF. This is a guy with zero experience at this level, and they picked him after speaking to him for just one day. Nothing about this sounds like sensible planning. If Potter turns out to be the real deal, they'll be golden, but if it turns out to be above his level, they have a lot to lose.
Brighton should hire Rodgers
Yea, Potter didn't have a choice. I think he will do ok at Chelsea......If he is measured against Lampard he will do well, if measured against Jose he will flop.
So Gilmour wanted to play under Potter and he joined Brighton. Auba wanted to play under Tuchel and joined Chelsea.
Worked out quite well, I guess.
Worked out quite well, I guess.
Agreed, Chelsea will not be finishing third as my predictions were fully aligned to Tuchel turning it around. Like Klopp will for us.
So the race for the last two spots is definitely on. Maybe all three spots.
Thankfully for them, Brighton had more than 4 coaches. It's not "the entire staff".
Brighton are an incredibly well run club, they'll be fine.
Fair play to Chelsea. Incredibly efficient execution.
Unhappy they got Potters. He's class.
Unhappy they got Potters. He's class.
Sacked within a year.
Why 2 ? All 3 spots are wide open.
Yeah. It's business and all but I do feel for Brighton getting dumped by their manager and their most important staff 6 games in.
Would assume the best staff already has work for the season now, so will be hard to replace them.
Turned a promising season into despair for the fans.
No. If it turns out to be above his level they will simply sack him without any hesitation unlike us.
Sad to see Potter go, I guess it was inevitable but pretty annoyed that Bruno has gone with him.
Yep. Hes got a season and half grace to blame his idiot boss and his dickhead squad.
I’m probably talking out of my hat here but is there any sense to having a transfer window for managers? Losing a manager out of the blue like this could be a death knell to a club like Brighton’s season. Maybe no managerial appointments from other clubs before 1st November or something arbitrary like that?
You’d feel for Brighton in this instance to be honest. Their whole football structure obliterated in one fell swoop.
You’d feel for Brighton in this instance to be honest. Their whole football structure obliterated in one fell swoop.
3 months without a home goal, 14 games without a win…last season.
It’s such a huge risk but it’s not being reported as such.
That's to be seen. Chelsea fecked Brighton pretty hard with this, and only 6 games into the season even.
It's still a fairly big risk for Potter if he ever had designs on managing a club that will compete for the title.
If he fails at Chelsea then when Pep and Klopp leave he wont be considered.
If he fails at Chelsea then when Pep and Klopp leave he wont be considered.
Brighton fans must be absolutely gutted. Typically when a manager leaves he's either been sacked due to terrible results, or things have become too toxic and his position untenable. Don't think there are too many examples of this scenario happening, where everyone in the fanbase will be devastated to see their manager depart for another club.
Because of the world class managers involved.
The point is that they've moving away from the first team coach model that allowed them to chop and change managers easily and moving in a Fergie/Wenger direction where the manager gets lots of authority. That makes changing coaches way harder. Harder to convince everyone to get rid of the manager, since he has more allies in key places. Harder to replace when you do sack them, because you risk losing several more key staff at once.
Too early to call ETH world class I think. The signs are there, but I’d wait a bit more.
Everyone was saying he deserves an opportunity at a big 6 club now has taken that opportunity you guys are still moaning. What is it you actually want? I swear football fans have no sense 
I mean he does, but we don't want Chelsea to sign a great coach when Poch would've been availableEveryone was saying he deserves an opportunity at a big 6 club now has taken that opportunity you guys are still moaning. What is it you actually want? I swear football fans have no sense
Better Chelsea than City, Liverpool or even Arsenal.
That was quick.
Better to take a sh*t load of money then wait for a job that could never come.
Well there’s no guarantee he goes there and does well tbh