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He played his best games in Brighton in a roaming LCB role. Bloke can't cross or shoot and doesn't have right foot, but a fantastic defensively in the right circumstances (like playing in a team where the players know eachothers names etc.)

Well, yeah. Goalie is highly debatable. I could agree with that. Defending has been poor from time to time but while James and Silva would make the Brighton starting eleven, I'm not sure Koulibaly, Fofana etc. are any better than Colwill (and certainly not Dunk). I mean De Zerbis tactics are nice but Brighton were scoring for fun in the last five-six months with Potter in charge, with a very similar goal average to what they've had with RDZ in charge. So its clearly about more than just the manager(s).

Would Ronaldo be more efficient than Havertz (and every other Chelsea player)? Yes, quite likely. Would Chelsea create as many chances playing with 10 men instead of 11? Probably not.

Would probably be a very good choice. He's widely seen as one of the best managers in the world and would have no issues coping with the pressure considering he's managed River Plate, which is as much pressure as it gets. He's been studying English for a few months now and will most likely show up in the Premier League somewhere, if a top club* is available. *or a club pretending to be a top club

Why undoubtedly? Manchester United scored a lot of goals and took a lot of points the season before Ronaldo came and now when he has left, they're scoring more goals and getting more points again. Manchester United were in a better position scoring wise before and after Ronaldo, so why would it "undoubtedly" be different in Chelsea?

Brighton since the introduction of Moises Caicedo last spring: 36 games 18 W - 9 D - 9 L or = 63 points, also known as comfortably the third best team in the league during that timespan. Better goalie (arguably), better defenders (I'd say), better midfield (undubious) and better strikers (up for discussion) than Chelsea and I struggle to see you getting anything from this game, especially between two Real Madrid games. Last time Frank Lampard faced Brighton, he walked into every single trap and had the team play exactly like De Zerbi and Brighton wanted. If your boys can avoid losing with more than three goals, you should consider it a win.

That he was the top scorer doesn't help much when the moment he came in, everyone else stopped scoring goals because the egomaniac w**ker that is Ronaldo either needs to score the goal himself or he just won't be interested in helping his team. So yeah you get a bunch of goals from him and a larger bunch of goals disappear from other players.

He appointed a coach who had taken the team with the second least wages in the team to 9th place while on a positive transfer net, and who has a fantastic record of developing young players at several clubs. That is competence. Before that, he had Tuchel who is also highly competent. The thing is that every manager is going to appear incompetent as long as they're not given at least a year to work with this team. Todd Boehly talks about a "long term project" but it doesn't exist. Tuchel was allowed to have a sh*t month, GP around six sh*t months, Lampard will have two sh*t months. Next coach? Well, either he makes this overcroweded team, filled with people mainly playing forthemselves and where a third of the players barely speak English, successful immediately, or he'll be gone. And since no one can have success in that situation, what will happen is obvious. No one is given time. The fancy new recruitment team that was assembled over a few months apparently didn't have a say in the Lampard appointment. Instead some useless journalist game with the suggestion. Any manager taking over will need a year or more to really shape this team. Any person working with recruitment will need a couple of years to build a solid team. But they're not getting that. They're told to work for the future while expected to get results immediately. Its not going to work... which is hilarious but maybe not for you Chelsea fans.

Is he trolling you? I struggle to see another explanation.

Saying you are "highly satisfied" and "today was really fun" after losing 3-0 to City is the first signs that he'll last about five minutes in Bayern. He'll soon be on the market again if you want him.

And the Premier League. Ended up 9th with Brighton while the club made a transfer profit and had the 19th highest wages. Unprecedented.

So you signed Christopher Vivell from RB Leipzig, Paul Winstanley from Brighton, Laurence Stewart from Monaco, Joe Shields from Southampton... ... and this "James Corden" handles the manager recruitment. Thought I'd stop being interesting once GP was out but its just... too good.

Why do clubs buy and train players if they have no impact on the results?

What exactly makes this squad better? The price? I watch a fair amount of football and struggle to see how any of the new defenders are even close to Rudiger or Christensen or how any of those attacking signings are better than Werner and Lukaku. The squad isn't better. It is younger and could reach a higher level, but better? Not much indicating that, is there? Lampard is facing the same issue as Potter and the next bloke will have: the squad built for tomorrow is expected to perform today... which isn't realistic.

Sorry, it was a poor choice of word. Of course female fans can be equally fickle. Point is, this Boehly guy seems very interested in what is said on social media etc.

Boehly is a man of the people. Eager to impress you boys in the stands: 1. Doesn't really want or get along with Tuchel but know you love him so keep him anyway 2. Doesn't want to buy weird oldies but knew that your bloke Tuchel wanted to, so brought in Auba etc. 3. Some poor results and poor football and harsh discussion about Thomas - Boehly sacks him to please you 4. Gets Mr. Nr 1 talked-about manager in Graham Potter, thinking flavour of the month will make you happy 5. Brings in a couple of £100m of players in January. No plan behind it but fans love new shiny toys. 6. Sacks Potter after poor results. Just like with Tuchel he probably knew Potter had an impossible working environment but fans want blood 7. Brings in club legend Lampard whos greatest managerial achievement is 6th in Championship.. with Mount, Tomori, Wilson etc in the squad He works hard to please you guys. Problem for you will be that making decisions based on the emotions of the fans rather than a real plan/thought process... might sound and feel good, but will do you lots of harm. Watch Mou or Conte coming in the summer to stay in the job a couple of months.

Time will tell if Graham Potter is the reason for Chelseas difficulties or if there is a f**kload of things causing troubles that will take years and years to solve.

Whats the point of sacking a manager if you're going to replace him with Frank Lampard? It is hilarious though. Happy that Graham is out of this mess. Good luck with your club - you're going to need it...

Hi Yeah be great if Boehly did that. Not the best thing for you obviously; if he or any owner would listen to you, you would have a new manager and new squad every week rather than every six months. Of course they don't want him back - they're doing fine (with the team he built and coached) and he is perceived as having betrayed them. Not many in PSG would have wanted him Tuchel back six months after he got sacked either, is that "telling" in the sense that it makes him a bad coach?

Brighton CEO Paul Barber (who is also Boehlys friend) on Potters time in Chelsea: "It's been hard for a few weeks because we would still see Graham as a friend, I mean he was my neighbour for three years so you know we got to know each other very well and worked together very well. Graham has a process the way he works, he has a particular style of working with players and sometimes - very often actuallly - say that that takes time, it takes timr to get his systems and his processes into the way the players train every day and play every week. Very often that is best established during a pre-season. He went into Chelsea a month into the season and in the last transfer window they bought a lot of new players, so the work he'd done between September and January to a large extent almost had to start again from scratch. It will always take tim if you're working with top clubs with very high expectations to achieve the results that the fans expect and at (close your eyes if you're a snowflake) Chelsea its a bigger club than Brighton in terms of the history and the success that they've had and because of that the expectations are higher, so the pressure on Graham is higher and the demand for quicker better results is there all the time. In my experience, he's calm, confident in his ability, he's a very good person to the players so the players will respect him for the values that he has, and I can't speak for Chelseas owners or board but certainly in our case at Brighton we gave him the time that he needed to get his methods across and three seasons into it, we finished in our highest ever position in the league. That in itself is testament to what he can achieve. With all due respect to the players we've got, which is excellent, you know Chelsea are able to spend much higher sums of money on players that are the finished article quicker. So you know, if he's given time working with some of the worlds best players, who knows whats possible there?" Interesting he says so and leads me to believe Boehly is also aware. You and Potter may well be stuck with each other for a while.

Thats what cowards do. He'll stick around and try to help the boys improve themselves and the team.

Very unlikely that he'll blame the refs. He is a grown man and takes responsibility himself. Only losers blame the refs for the shortcomings of themselves and their teams.

I suppose we all have different hobbies and ways of spending our time.

Not easy is it though? In the last ten years, Benitez, Mourinho, Conte, Sarri, Tuchel and now Potter all turned out to be incompetent. Running out of names to hire.

Of course not, he left Brighton for another PL team when the season had already started. He won't be liked. If Tuchel or Mourinho would have won most games in the start of a season just to f**k off to Real Madrid the second they came calling, they wouldn't be popular characters here either. If you read their forums from before GP left, there general take was "we're playing the best football in the PL" etc.