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Management Poll: Who do you want most as our next manager?

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Who would be your first choice?

  • Graham Potter

  • Scott Parker

  • Ten Hag

  • Rafa Benitez

  • None of the above - comment below

  • *Marcelo Bielsa

  • *Ralf Rangnick

  • *Ralph Hasenhüttl

  • *Steven Gerrard

  • *Julen Lopetegui

  • *Christophe Galtier

  • *Marcelo Gallardo

  • *Oliver Glasner

  • *Ryan Mason

  • *Maurizio Sarri

  • *Gian Piero Gasperini

  • *Mauricio Pochettino

  • *Antonio Conte

  • *Eddie Howe

  • *Gareth Southgate

  • *Nuno Espirito Santo

  • *Paulo Fonseca

  • *Gennaro Gattuso

  • *Ernesto Valverde

Results are only viewable after voting.
AndriusTH said:
Rodgers took Liverpool from no Europe to challenging for the title and they really should have won. Celtic was dominating as hell when he was in charge too, also Leicester will secure Champions League for the next season and some of you still say that Potter is a better option. smh.
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He took them right back out of Europe when Suarez left though. The whole team fell apart with the loss of just one player and he squandered the proceeds of the sale. They were getting spanked by the likes of Stoke.

If you put a cat in charge of Celtic without Rangers in the league they'd still dominate.

Leicester blew the CL last season and they may well blow it again this one. Rodgers has been a waste of space in European football throughout his entire career.
 
NW1Spur said:
If we did pay Leicester a fortune to get Rodgers I can pretty much guarantee the first thing they'd do would be to hire Potter and spend the money we gave them on improving their squad.
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Totally agree with you then we would look like proper mugs once Rodgers is sacked 12-18 months down the line we’d be lining Leicester’s pockets once again getting Potter
To save ourselves the heartache of that we just need to bring in Potter now 👍
 
Bill Madrid said:
Hands up everyone who read all that from start to finish

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Might try and read it tonight as I suffer from insomnia!
 
AndriusTH said:
Rodgers took Liverpool from no Europe to challenging for the title and they really should have won. Celtic was dominating as hell when he was in charge too, also Leicester will secure Champions League for the next season and some of you still say that Potter is a better option. smh.
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Rodgers was lucky that Liverpool had Sterling and Suarez when he arrived, at Celtic he done what most managers do before they imploded this season & Leicester recruitment is brilliant with common sense, Iheanacho playing well now but cost them 25 mil and was quality at City & he walked in on a young midfield 3 of Ndidi, Tielemans & Maddison

We don't have the same recruitment, thats why I dont think he is a good fit, everywhere he has been has had an element of luck, only place without good recruitment he has been is Reading where he was shocking
 
Nabil Bentaleb said:
I won’t wish him bad if he is at Tottenham. But will take a lot to win me over. I just don’t like the guy. And don’t think he is worthy the crazy fee Leicester will want and the wages he would receive.
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I will want the best from the club which be for him to leave

Dirty, slimey cunt who talks in actual riddles, Leicester get a huge fee from us, they get Potter and a player then, like you said will finish above us
 
AndriusTH said:
Rodgers took Liverpool from no Europe to challenging for the title and they really should have won. Celtic was dominating as hell when he was in charge too, also Leicester will secure Champions League for the next season and some of you still say that Potter is a better option. smh.
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According to TFC there’s always another reason other than Rodgers being a good manager for him consistently improving clubs he manages and there’s always an excuse for why Potters teams don’t get results.
 
ginola92 said:
According to TFC there’s always another reason other than Rodgers being a good manager for him consistently improving clubs he manages and there’s always an excuse for why Potters teams don’t get results.
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I don't mind Potter, he was my 4th choice after Naglesmann, Rodgers and ten Hag but it would be a massive gamble. Yet the way he's being made out to be miles ahead of other names is madness. Why everything has to be so binary these days i will never know. There may be many valid reasons but he has won 8 games this season and is being out performed by Steve Cooper at Swansea. He may go on to be a really good manager but surely anyone can see it would be a hell of a risk. After getting rid of those Mourinho weirdos we could do without another cult developing.
 
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Sir Archibald Crooks said:
I don't mind Potter, he was my 4th choice after Naglesmann, Rodgers and ten Hag but it would be a massive gamble. Yet the way he's being made out to be miles ahead of other names is madness. Why everything has to be so binary these days i will never know. There may be many valid reasons but he has won 8 games this season and is being out performed by Steve Cooper at Swansea. He may go on to be a really good manager but surely anyone can see it would be a hell of a risk. After getting rid of those Mourinhlo weirdos we could do without another cult developing.
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Oh another member of the Anti Potter Cult Cult. Typical.
 
From Fonseca to Rangnick: using data to scout Tottenham's next manager

With the help of Piotr Wawrzynow, a football data scientist from Krakow, Poland, we can appraise some of the names linked to Tottenham. Wawrzynow’s work (a detailed piece on his methodology can be found here) led to him creating a dashboard that splits out a coach’s performance and playing style.
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Starting with Graham Potter, his overall coaching performance rating of 97 out of 100 makes him one of the best coaches in the Premier League today.

Brighton’s performances (blue line on the right-hand chart) indicate a side which is great at getting the ball into good positions, regularly doing so better than their opponents. It’s quite a distance above their results in parts (the red line) which is based on an Elo model which adjusts for each match depending on how likely or unlikely the result is.
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Cravenspurs Cravenspurs Still not convinced, but some more evidence in favour of your man. This data analyst rated him higher compared to Rodgers, Rangnick, Ten Hag, Marcelino, Fonseca, and Santo.
 
postbox said:
I think its a lot to do with actually watching Brighton play. They play like a top 6 side already.

I do understand your point, its a lot like watching Swansea or Bournemouth in the past - pretty football but also pretty ineffective when really put to the test. Similarly, how many (in general, press etc) were crowing about Chris Wilder last year after how he had Sheffield Utd playing?

However, watching Brighton there is something different, IMO.

Firstly, their defence/defending is VERY good. And this is the first failing of the 'pretty' teams above. Brighton build from a properly solid base.

Secondly, they average (last I saw) over 50% possession over the season. Which means one of two things to me - either teams are sitting back more against them (and yet they still famously create a lot of chances), or they arent sitting back so much which says Brighton are playing through their press well.

Thirdly, the chances. Im no great lover of xG, but it is shocking just how many high quality chances Brighton create and fail to take. Again, watching the game it is very apparent this is not a statistical funny - where its technically high quality chances per xG but in reality its nothing of the sort - it is genuine high quality chances, and lots of them. I watched the Leeds game at the weekend, Brighton with a half decent striker would have won 4-0 comfortably.

As it is, they won 2-0 comfortably. Biesla gets hyped so much, and yet Potters Brighton comprehensively outplayed his Leeds on the day (twice this season I believe). Sacrificed some possession, but left Leeds without a sniff all game, dictated where the game was played, and created enough chances to have absolutely spanked them.

Its not plucky underdog stuff, IMHO, its the exact sort of stuff that top teams do to succeed - yet with players not near the quality of squads like ours.

There is a great cohesion to the side, achieved rather quickly upon arrival - and in stark contrast to Hughtons style - suggesting excellent training methods. This team moves as one, and has that Man Cityesque ability to move in a way that all the passes look easy and obvious, but are somehow so difficult to play against. Also that City like off the ball forward running (something we have been criminally poor at for years).

I do understand where you are coming from, I just dont think you point stands in this situation. There is just too much quality about how Brighton play to ignore what Potter could do with a club like ours. If he simply implemented his style here, I think we would be something really special - not falling into that "wont work if teams sit back" trap, and thats before seeing what he might develop with the added quality we have.
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My point is, the opposition Brighton play against will play very differently against Brighton than they will against Tottenham.

Burnley, WBA etc will play to win against Brighton and other teams in that area. They'll be more open as a result and make Brighton look better.
 
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