1 hour ago, Sexyfootball said:

Be great if Boehly did something really brave and told Emma Hayes and GP they were swapping jobs as of Monday ... 

It’d be very brave because I’d dedicate my life to sparking the c**t* if he messes with Emma. 
 

*As a practicing coward this is not 100% accurate. 

Quite a job the owners have done. Spent 600mill and managed to take a top 4 side who were former European and remaining world champions and take us to where we are now. 

If Todd's been listening will you please ask him to bring this man back @Munkworth

Seems to me the fans have three choices, accept the situation and just hope Potter turns out around. Heavily protest for Potter out and see if it changes Boehly and Co's minds.

Or the nuclear option and I believe this is the most effective tool for getting your point across. #Boehlyout, the point isn't that they necessarily want him out but if he's led to believe the fans have turned on him it's a self preservation situation. Hypothetically keeping Potter around becomes less important and the need to appease the fans and their backing which he currently has started to lose anyway becomes way more pressing.

Early days for the latter option, I do fear aside from actual protests and walkouts there isn't much the fans can do to get the point across Potter isn't wanted (by the majority of fans). Its so sad because no matter how bad it got at Chelsea FC I've never once wanted a manager fired. How times have changed and it only took the new ownership 6 months to undo everything Abramovich had built. 

The more they choose to be stubborn the more fan wrath they risk. I think Potter is really in the red zone now, he can still turn it around. However, many fans like me will die on the hill the appointment should have never been made and that's he's not good enough. Prove us wrong Potter for your sake I hope you do it soon because its going to get ugly if the results and performances carriy on this way.

Boehly if you randomly read this, swallow your pride and accept humbly you made a mistake. How you chose Potter over Poch is already my first red flag.

44 minutes ago, Amputechture said:

If Todd's been listening will you please ask him to bring this man back @Munkworth

Not familiar with the guy you are talking about on the left there. Did he play for us? Is it Ben Chilwell when he has had an allergic reaction?

In my opinion mr Boehly and co most probably are aware by now that Potter was a poor choice.

However, its a difficult decision to make firing Potter for a couple of reasons:

1. They probably are proud people and dont want to admit their mistake just yet

2. Potter hasn't had a full season and getting rid off him now means that their long term project idea wasn't real 

3. Who there is available to replace Potter that is a yes man, easy going, experienced and become a success? 

4. The cost to fire Potter at this stage and hire a new manager, assistant etc will come at a tremendous cost. 

In saying that they are business people too and work in finance. At some point you need to cut your losses and accept that you are on a loosing trade. I believe they will give Potter until end of the season and than get a replacement on no longer than a 3 year contract.

tb is destroying our club 

sacked tuchel and hired a awful manager

and one thing that worries me a lot is the length contract that we give to our players 

only reece james deserve this type of contract

I read that he plans give 7 years to mount and he gived 6 years to cucurella and 5 years to koulibaly

how we will sell both? 

bad decisions after bad decisions and I feel afraid of our future, tbh 

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On 17/02/2023 at 04:12, Bebe1980 said:

Very long post... all of a sudden I see win% coming up everywhere!

Says Potter has won 9 or his 22 league games - current win% therefore 41%

That means he needs to win the next 3 to catch up with Alex Ferguson (arguably the best manager ever) who won 12 of his first 25 with Man Utd - 48%

 

If Potter wins the remaining 16 league games - his win% will leap to 66%

If Potter's win% is measured from the time he had some of our star players available (say the WHU game) and he wins his remaining 16 matches his win% will be 94%!

 

Which confirms statistics are complete bllox and may explain why Todd didn't pay much attention to them 😁

 

 

Just watch the football. We’re beyond useless. Fire him 

Go and get Zidane. Get some one with some presence and guts. We need a strong leader ASAP 

57 minutes ago, Gentian said:

In my opinion mr Boehly and co most probably are aware by now that Potter was a poor choice.

However, its a difficult decision to make firing Potter for a couple of reasons:

1. They probably are proud people and dont want to admit their mistake just yet

2. Potter hasn't had a full season and getting rid off him now means that their long term project idea wasn't real 

3. Who there is available to replace Potter that is a yes man, easy going, experienced and become a success? 

4. The cost to fire Potter at this stage and hire a new manager, assistant etc will come at a tremendous cost. 

In saying that they are business people too and work in finance. At some point you need to cut your losses and accept that you are on a loosing trade. I believe they will give Potter until end of the season and than get a replacement on no longer than a 3 year contract.

Very well thought out.

24 minutes ago, PhilH930 said:

Just watch the football. We’re beyond useless. Fire him 

It's too painful... maybe I should just monitor the win% 🦆

7 hours ago, LongtimerLurker said:

 

If they show his record just in the PL it is even worse. 28.3% win rate.

The All Competitions view includes a bunch of wins against lower level teams in the domestic cups. Every time Brighton faced a PL team in a cup they lost ... EVERY TIME ... LOL

Not sure what Simon Phillips sources are or if they are accurate but he said apparently Tuchel "didn't communicate enough" not sure what that means.

 

Boehly needs to understand that coaching a top football team is a full team job for two people LOL.

You simply don't have the scope to do a load of corporate tasks and "communication" outside of the basic remit. If you do, then performance and results will suffer, as we are seeing right now.

14 hours ago, Gentian said:

4. The cost to fire Potter at this stage and hire a new manager, assistant etc will come at a tremendous cost. 

Couldn't we put him on gardening leave and keep paying him weekly until he finds a new job? Ala Di Matteo.

4 minutes ago, Argo said:

Couldn't we put him on gardening leave and keep paying him weekly until he finds a new job? Ala Di Matteo.

Technically couldn't we demote him to the Development squad? 

1 hour ago, Argo said:

Couldn't we put him on gardening leave and keep paying him weekly until he finds a new job? Ala Di Matteo.

I believe they can. If Potter doesn't accept the severance package I think they are within their jurisdiction to do that. 

Definitely an option. 

8 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

If they show his record just in the PL it is even worse. 28.3% win rate.

The All Competitions view includes a bunch of wins against lower level teams in the domestic cups. Every time Brighton faced a PL team in a cup they lost ... EVERY TIME ... LOL

Wait till the New Zealand guy starts giving Potter some protein shakes, give em time !

I don’t think he’s going to get fired. He’ll get minimum until the end of the season. Unless things get extremely bad like we lose our next 3 games.

2 minutes ago, Frankie8Lampard said:

I don’t think he’s going to get fired. He’ll get minimum until the end of the season. Unless things get extremely bad like we lose our next 3 games.

I think he will be given until end of the season too, but i would be extremely surprised if they haven't started to search and analyse new candidates. 

The spurs game is vital for Potter, where I think we will win not due to Potter but players will be highly motivated to win a london derby. 

Silence from Boehly is deafening. Players usually turn up for the Spurs game, just like the CL knock out games. Spurs haven't been great, but the way they play is perfect against us, they could only have 25% possession and beat us 4:1. Conte still holds grudge against us, he won't take it easy this weekend.

4 hours ago, icecoolguy22 said:

Silence from Boehly is deafening. Players usually turn up for the Spurs game, just like the CL knock out games. Spurs haven't been great, but the way they play is perfect against us, they could only have 25% possession and beat us 4:1. Conte still holds grudge against us, he won't take it easy this weekend.

Didn't they only recently let it be known the back Potter and believe in him? Should they do that after every loss or draw? They would be awfully busy lol

13 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Didn't they only recently let it be known the back Potter and believe in him? Should they do that after every loss or draw? They would be awfully busy lol

They are not going to publicly say he's on thin ice though? 

Apparently a protest is going to happen this Wednesday outside Stamford Bridge. Not sure why this Wednesday, is Boehly going to be around that day or something?

1 hour ago, RMH said:

Apparently a protest is going to happen this Wednesday outside Stamford Bridge. Not sure why this Wednesday, is Boehly going to be around that day or something?

Be interesting to see if it happens. If it does you would have to ask how can you be so angry to Protest against Potter, but you could not offer that same energy to support the previous owner who saved us from bankruptcy and helped us to many cherished memories?