I’ve got no qualms with it being Potter, he was excellent at Brighton and shouldnt be judged on his time at that clusterfuck club
He’s youngish, plays good football and seems to build great relationships with players whilst improving them a lot
Potter, Slot or De Zerbi (very unlikely to leave Brighton) seem like reasonable choices
I can’t stomach rodgers as a person but he’s a good coach so would be on the fence if it was him, although would prefer one of the three mentioned above instead
I think Potter is an excellent manager, but De Zerbi has truly blown him out of the water. Brighton sold Trossard, Bissouma, Cucerella, Maupay. Under Potter Brighton played well, and built well out from the back but couldn't score for shit. He hasn't even had a pre-season to work with the players, yet has turned them into an amazing attacking team and probably one of the most aggressive sides to play against too. They have already scored 24 more goals than last season, beaten Utd twice, Liverpool twice, Woolwich twice and Chelsea twice. Were really hard done by in the FA Cup Semi against Utd after being the better team but losing on pens.
I know fickle is what we football fans are but to go for Potter (who is being replaced by Poch at Chavs) whilst his replacement has been far, far better just doesn't feel right by any measure.
I know this is somewhat twisted way to view him but I can't get past the fact that despite fully acknowledging he's good, to know that his replacement is better is really hard to get past.
I've been doing a fair amount of reading up on Slot (I genuinely had never heard of him until this year), and all seems quite good so I made the point of watching the Roma game to witness his side play this high-pressing attacking brand of football everyone was talking about, but they were outplayed by Jose the dinosaur's Roma and lost 4-1!! Again, it's only one game and shit happens, also the money disparity between the two Clubs is huge but to watch any dinosaur's team outplay anyone is a very rare thing indeed and as a consequence, I'm struggling to get past this too. (If I was more familiar with him and his teams by actually watching them with my own eyes then I can fall back on that and make me feel confident but surely I can't be alone in not having watched Feyenoord, so where does everyone get this confidence in him being good fit come from?
I 100% agree with you on sharing a dislike for Rodgers, I also think he's a good coach but that has taken a big step backwards given Leicester's season this term and the squad available to him, basically, they've been an appalling team, poorly coached, poorly prepared and poorly set up. They have no identity, wanting to play Brenda's possession football but getting desperate and resulting to Leicester's hoof ball. Nah, not for me.