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Graham Potter - Poll

Do you want Potter as the next Everton manager

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Potter antics...He'll be getting the players to do Blood brothers in honour of Bill.
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CielosGrises said:
Didn't he manage to get a tune out of Mopey ?

I remember Brighton having lots of posession and struggling to score for a while - better than lots of defending and not able to score ?
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Maupay can play as a second striker or as a forward when the ball is played in to feet. He cant be a target man, which is what Dyche and Lampard tried to do with him. I think Maupay is an idiot for the stuff he says, but I think a lot of it is born out of frustration of how he was used during his time here and the fact he is labelled as "rubbish" because he spent most of his time chasing lost causes or competing with CB's for long balls.

The thing I would say about potter is his teams play higher risk football than we are used to. Similar to Martinez, playing out from the back more. Potter has played a narrow 442 at times and that might be the best option with our current squad, if we are going to play Broja and DCL. But we would still need to either sign new LB and RB this transfer window or actually use Patterson, as this would rely on the fullbacks getting forward and providing width in attack.
 

Drico said:
I have decided to keep an open mind as to his credentials. I admire the fact he branched out and made a big success of his time at Hogwarts in Sweden. I also think he deserves credit for making Brighton an attractive side. However, I worry that much of his success there was due to the behind-the-scenes set-up at that progressive club rather than any magic potion our putative wizard may possess.

His time at Chelsea was a disaster - and he cannot be compared to people like Tuchel who won a Champions League there despite the dysfunction. Yet, I accept that many good managers struggle and, indeed, fail at such a club in such turmoil.

All that said, I don't think he would handle the pressure of rebuilding Everton. He really showed a very weak side of himself in how he handled the gleeful taunts of his former Brighton fans when he took his Chelsea back to the Credit Card Stadium for a ritual disemboweling. The entitlement of the man to take umbrage at his treatment exposed a very brittle humour that makes me doubt his character. Obviously, I'm no psychologist, but it wasn't the look of a man who was confident enough to genuinely brush off such treatment.

Nevertheless, we do need a magician right now and a replacement for He Who Must Not Be Named.

PS I'd actually prefer the Dark Lord - but I doubt José would entertain working again for the Friedkins even in the unlikely event they would entertain taking him back from Azkaban Istanbul.
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To defend Potter a little bit here with respect to the bolded part, Tuchel didn't win the CL despite the dysfunction. The dysfunction started when Boehly took over which was I think a full year or so after the CL win. Chelsea's mess was at its worst in that 22-23 season when they went on a big supermarket sweep of random players and couldn't even fit them all in the dressing room. Potter and then Lampard were the two managers to bear the brunt of that. By the time Poch took over things had started to settle down and he also struggled for the first half of his tenure.
 
blueboy72 said:
What couldn’t he handle at Brighton 🤣🤣
They booed a 0-0 when they were mid table and he said something like they need to
Have a word With themselves, they’d spent the majority of the previous 30 years in
The lower leagues and he had them mid table in the prem.
he most likely thought after that
I will be off as soon as a bigger club comes along, not I can’t handle the pressure get me back to Sweden
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Hed lose the plot all together after a Goodison booing.
 
OneTrueLegend said:
Maupay can play as a second striker or as a forward when the ball is played in to feet. He cant be a target man, which is what Dyche and Lampard tried to do with him. I think Maupay is an idiot for the stuff he says, but I think a lot of it is born out of frustration of how he was used during his time here and the fact he is labelled as "rubbish" because he spent most of his time chasing lost causes or competing with CB's for long balls.

The thing I would say about potter is his teams play higher risk football than we are used to. Similar to Martinez, playing out from the back more. Potter has played a narrow 442 at times and that might be the best option with our current squad, if we are going to play Broja and DCL. But we would still need to either sign new LB and RB this transfer window or actually use Patterson, as this would rely on the fullbacks getting forward and providing width in attack.
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I think this gets overplayed as a way to try to explain away something that doesn't make sense on the face of it. For me it just didn't work out for Maupay here, I think partly because of what I was talking about earlier with expectation etc being a bit too much for him and partly him just finding himself out of form. No doubt we didn't play in a way that totally maximised what he's good at but I don't think it's accurate to say we tried to use him as a target man.
 


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