Another New Manager, Welcome Mr Potter

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  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    Nuno will be sacked at the end of the season. im 60% sure of it.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    thornburyiron said:

    Whoever it is will be our third manager this calendar year.

    And our 4th in less than 18 months.

  • stevesteve
    JWP must be worried ,Nuno hardly played him at Forest
  • EXETERHAMMEREXETERHAMMER
    And Nuno's 5th club in 4 years
  • SlackerSlacker
    Yeoldhammer said:

    Nuno will be sacked at the end of the season. im 60% sure of it.

    That’s the spirit!

  • carsonroadboycarsonroadboy
    I may well be in a minority here, but I did not agree with the fans treatment of David Moyes. Many didn’t like the way we played while he was in charge, and left Sullivan little choice other than not offering him a new contract. He immediately took Everton from the relegation zone to several places above us, Graham Potter was a failure at Chelsea, yet we took him on expecting great improvements. He has fallen well below the fans expectations, leaving us in deep trouble. I’m sure he is a very nice guy, but never looked an assertive type to get his ideas over, even if they would have improved us. We just about score enough goals, but our defence is so disorganised that we leak many more than we should. He was right to go.
    Nuno now has a big task, and he will need support from all quarters to get us out of our desperate situation. Protests won’t help,
    C’mon you Irons!
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    The board are hoping that a change of manager will stop the protests@carsonroadboy 😉.
  • PengemanPengeman
    Potter can't have any complaints. He was given a fair bit of time and money to spend, though not as much as his predecessor. We never gelled under his management. WHU need some strategy. Employing the latest unemployed manager, with little regard for the kind of football club, playing style and development isn't going to take us forward. They seem to do things different at Brighton, Brentford, Palace and Liverpool.
  • OutcastLondonerOutcastLondoner
    Fortuneseeker said:

    I know quite a few people believe the protests are a waste of time but they are gaining support and the board possibly think making a change will reduce the criticism being directed at them. From what I understand it will probably make no difference to the plans to try to get rid of Sullivan & Brady.

    TBH given our owners it might have been more the faceswaps than the protests…

    If it’s Nuno as it seems I do think he’s a really good manager for our level who has a good record of setting up teams that are defensively solid but can be really effective at attacking. A bit like our couple of seasons of really good football under Moyes.
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    Pengeman said:

    Potter can't have any complaints. He was given a fair bit of time and money to spend, though not as much as his predecessor. We never gelled under his management. WHU need some strategy. Employing the latest unemployed manager, with little regard for the kind of football club, playing style and development isn't going to take us forward. They seem to do things different at Brighton, Brentford, Palace and Liverpool.

    Fair amount of time? He inherited a mess and wasn’t even given a season

    Brighton were relegation contenders when he took over and they were relegation contenders for the first two seasons he was there. It was only in the third season they started seeing the results of his team building and it was their start to the fourth season that got him the Chelsea job

    If anything all the protests have achieved is getting Potter sacked before he had time to develop the team

    Well done. Hope they are proud of their achievement
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    ASLEFshrugged said:

    If anything all the protests have achieved is getting Potter sacked before he had time to develop the team

    Well done. Hope they are proud of their achievement

    The protests really are nothing to do with Potter, and everything to do with Sullivan and Brady.

  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    edited September 27
    I am sorry ASLEF you think that is the case, I reckon the results since he came in didn’t do his chances much good 👍. S&B must be stupid if they believe the protests are about the team & not them.
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    steve said:

    JWP must be worried ,Nuno hardly played him at Forest

    They were that close he may well have left with the rest of Potters back room staff.
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    edited September 27
    It's Nuno

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c1kwgn1r9y1o


    I guess it does make sense to let Potter go even though this close to the game if Nuno had agreed terms and ready to go.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Well Brady seems to have been thrown under the bus following her recent statement.

    "Steps have already been taken to implement a new strategy and approach – particularly in the area of player recruitment. We have appointed Graham Potter as our new Head Coach. His role is to build and develop a first-team squad in line with the Club’s identity and objectives, with a continued focus on integrating young players from our Academy."

    17th September.

    So maybe not all bad news then. ⚒
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    It seems where Potter is concerned people look back on his career at Brighton as mainly a big success story but his win percentage there was worse than at Chelsea and only slightly better than with us.
  • LukerzLukerz
    Well yesterday was a shock. Never expected to leave the house having read GPs press conference & then got home to see Nuno was in charge. Football, eh?

    The timing was odd, I can only assume he was left in charge until we struck an agreement with Nuno, which must’ve happened Friday night, hence the timing. Potter should have been sacked as soon as they had doubts & started thinking about options. But this club is this club for a reason.

    I felt Potter would have got more out of the side the longer he had, but equally I know you can’t keep getting beaten at home & then start getting thrashed regularly & expect to stay in charge in the modern, PL era.

    I will reserve judgement on Nuno until I watch us Monday (& beyond).
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    No directed at you Luke, because I can't recall which site members have said this - but in the past there has been very vehement criticism of the board sacking a manager without the new one lined up.

  • LukerzLukerz
    I agree you need a new manager lined up, the timing can only be the fact they got agreement with Nuno over Friday. Just seems a little unfair on Potter & was the same for Lop.
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    edited September 28
    I agree with Mrs Grey in that the club gets ripped apart for being amateurish if they sack someone with no one lined up. It is poor on Potter but I think he will be ok with that as he probably gets another huge boost to his financial position as he did at Chelsea. I feel sure the Chelsea pay off will have eclipsed ours but in all a pretty average football guy has set himself up for life with two contracts that barely lasted half a season each.
  • secrethammersfansecrethammersfan
    The fact is the two messages had a six-hour gap. We don’t know when or in what order the decisions were made.
  • EXETERHAMMEREXETERHAMMER
    If Nuno took training yesterday, decision was made much earlier.
  • WhitehorsehammerWhitehorsehammer
    When the lawyers and accountants had completed their part he propably signed Friday, If the board had announced it and sacked Potter and It fell through at the last minute they would have come in for so much abuse.
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