10 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

I'd be surprised if Potter ends up seeing the squad any differently to how Tuchel saw it. Going to be fascinating to watch it all unfold ...

Perhaps it is more how the squad will view him in comparison to Tuchel.

I am gutted that Tuchel has gone, i think my posts reflect that my frustration was much more with the backroom staff who i just didn't feel were fit for purpose, not the manager.

Now that more time has past and Potter looks like being the man, he is the guy that i probably would have liked the most. If we can change our culture and our mentality as a club a bit, we could actually be on to something quite special over time.

My biggest issue is that I have been a fan now for 50 years and i can honestly say i would never now go through the rigmarole of travelling to west London, and shelling out the substantial amount of money to watch the sh*t that has been peddled for football in recent years.

I love winning, i love the trophies , the finals, its great. But essentially i just want to enjoy watching entertaining, expansive football.

If this guy is strong enoough to see his way through the poisonous and the weak minded, self absorbed wasters, in soem quarters here and get together a hard core of players that want to play football to his pattern and that pattern is as entetaining as i have seen from his Brighton side, bring it on please. 

 

Not gonna lie, it will feel strange not having a manager with an exotic name 😂

I imagine having a Brit as manager will also motivate the British players at least initially.

There will be casualties as Potter starts to realise who works better for him.

5 hours ago, abister1 said:

Very uninspiring name. 

We are Chelsea and should be looking at top draw A class managers. 

Optimism is great but nothing in his managerial history suggests he should be or can mingle with the upper echelon. 

Brain dead, reactionary appoontment. Best he can achieve with Chelsea is 7th or 8th.

abister it may help to use some mental visualisation? Imagine he is called Grahamino Potterlegri and for the last two seasons he has worked wonders at Spezia. Of course he hasn't actually won anything there, (and he never played top flight football himself), but he has had them playing attractive football and has turned Alessandro Slowleggio into one of the best ball recycling "registas" that Serie A has ever seen.

1 hour ago, dkw said:

Fits with all the recent business we've done, hopefully this and all the other long term contracts for players brings stability and an allowance to build.

But we'll still have fans here in 18 months calling for his head when it goes tits up. 

1 hour ago, dkw said:

Fits with all the recent business we've done, hopefully this and all the other long term contracts for players brings stability and an allowance to build.

Let's hope he gets shown more patience than Tuchel did with you then.

 

Just now, just said:

abister it may help to use some mental visualisation? Imagine he is called Grahamino Potterlegri

I tried that with my Mrs, but it was hard work, Bella Hadid she is not.

24 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

If this guy is strong enough to see his way through the poisonous and the weak minded, self absorbed wasters, in some quarters here and get together a hard core of players that want to play football to his pattern and that pattern is as entertaining as I have seen from his Brighton side, bring it on please. 

Not mentioning any names, I think he just has a couple of bad apples to deal with ( Pulisic and Ziyech LOL). The rest I don't see much problem with in terms of attitude and commitment. Ziyech possibly fixable as he does have talent, despite the sh*t show we saw in Zagreb. Pulisic is more of a problem, given his overinflated sense of his ability, and his propensity to go and whine to his dad and Boehly. When the Slonina kid arrives in January, I think I'd bin off Pulisic completely and have Slonina as the US poster boy instead. 

1 minute ago, coco said:

I tried that with my Mrs, but it was hard work, Bella Hadid she is not.

"You can't think of anyone else either then love ?" LOL

6 minutes ago, Sindre said:

Let's hope he gets shown more patience than Tuchel did with you then.

 

Or that a good number of posters showed with Lampard.

4 minutes ago, just said:

Or that a good number of posters showed with Lampard.

And Sarri.

2 minutes ago, just said:

Or that a good number of posters showed with Lampard.

Yeah, or that. Personally I supported Lampard until the end too and Tuchel likewise.

It would just be a bit odd to preach patience for one manager if you happened to be a source of endless complaints with the former.

If the players turn up with no manager in charge on the weekend, i will be even more furious with them than i am now, even if i'm happy we also win, they think they can just turn it on and off when they see fit, that's not the attitude we want from any Chelsea player.

Tuchel has been blamed 100% for this, but i think the players should shoulder most of the blame. Without Kante they have been an embarrassment, why the f**k we pay them top salaries when they think they can go on strike when they like i don not know, some peole think its a good idea to nail them down with long contracts, well not when they down tools all the time it isn't. 

1 minute ago, coco said:

And Sarri.

Don't be daft Coco!

 

Or AVB.

The past 24 hours have completed sucked away all enthusiasm I had for this season. I have gone from being pissed that things weren't working out to just not caring anymore.

Every top team in Europe will be pleased today. They will be much happier playing Graham Potter's Chelsea than they would be playing Thomas Tuchel's Chelsea.

Recent posts have mentioned that Potter could struggle with the ego's of some of our so called  world class players, and they are possibly right. But I think this has to start from the top, and as much as I admired Tuchel for his success at Chelsea, I felt HIS ego was becoming the problem at Chelsea,  and not the players. Tod could see it, even if we couldnt and made the hard call that we wouldn't have had the balls to make. 

Let's move on, we are Chelsea !

1 minute ago, just said:

Don't be daft Coco!

 

Or AVB.

See this is it, only your choices get patience, daft.

21 minutes ago, just said:

abister it may help to use some mental visualisation? Imagine he is called Grahamino Potterlegri and for the last two seasons he has worked wonders at Spezia. Of course he hasn't actually won anything there, (and he never played top flight football himself), but he has had them playing attractive football and has turned Alessandro Slowleggio into one of the best ball recycling "registas" that Serie A has ever seen.

Is this Sarri's career?

Welcome Graham P im very optimistic but excited to see his style of football

25 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Is this Sarri's career?

Up to the point he came to Chelsea, yes. 

5 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

I very much imagine most managers would have wanted Fofana too. 

The cucurella signing makes me think we had our eyes on Potter for a while now and with how quick it seems to be going through i wonder if there was contact with him before.

The concern for me is that he may favour Cucurella over Chillwell when Chillwell is the far better player technically and for getting crosses in.  I guess we'll find out soon enough..

Edited September 8, 20223 yr by CFCCAN

4 minutes ago, CFCCAN said:

The concern for me is that he may favour Cucurella over Chillwell

I think he will play Cucurella at left centre back.

Edited September 8, 20223 yr by Sexyfootball

It's happening.

 

Potter is ready to kick the squad into shape ...