People gave way too much credit to Potter vs the ownership and structure of Brighton

fyp.

Sure, that works too. But they've gone from CL winners to very unlikely to be top 4 in two years. Lots of blame to go around.

and will again at some point in the next 12 months

Just confirming re Soton - that was no handover manager last night - that was the real thing?

investing in the coaches of these well run small clubs like brighton and brentford feels like missing the point imo

Pretty sure if anyone would scream Lego Pep out would be instanly lynched by the mobs.

It's derby day!

This is a very longhand way of writing LOLSEA.

I see Potter is in a similar situation as Emery with us.

Complete reorganization going on. New people everywhere. Looking for a new director of football and 60 days in charge. Not many would look not out of their depths.

We had some bad games and defeats under Tuchel, but we were still present in those games, often the dominant possession team who could just not put the ball in the net and conceding on counters, but we still had some presence on the pitch and control of the ball.

These last few games we have had nothing, no presence, no game management, no control, nothing, the other team has totally and completely dictated the game.

Its the total vacuum of game management that is the stand out to a Chelsea watcher, yes we have had dodgy managers before, but even then we could put our foot on the ball and dictate some shape on the game, even if we were set up to concede possession and counter, at least you could see that pattern in our play.

Chelsea are at the long end of a period of high disruption, in this spot you need a Carlo or even cant believe I am saying this Benitez, someone with the hard yards at this level who can be flexible and adaptive to the chaos and randomness caused by having your club force sold just before a window and then most of the backroom staff sacked.

Its the wrong time for Potter and this is with the caveat that there might never even be a right time, but of all the times, this is the worst.

Mxginn starts lmao. How does this guy keep getting selected. Was one of the worst players on the pitch against united

Also no Bailey? Howww? Nvm sick like ollie

Ashley ****ing Barnes!

Loooollllll

lol Villa

Didn't know Mac Allister is Argentinian

Boom Zaroury!

lol Venkys, how the feck are they third?

Lallana injured, shocking

Maybe, but it seems like hindsight now given that I don't recall people talking about this until this current run at Chelsea.

Perhaps I'm wrong and you can langer yourself banging on about it.

And it's three.

Venkys are dogshit

Wait what

Dunk gifts Villa a penalty.

He can stick it in

Thank you and good night

How the **** is that not a pen? Clear as day

I did have these kind of opinions on lol reddit because the volume here is so dead.

Nothing against Potter, still think he's fine and this Chelsea side is wank

Brighton being an extremely well-run club isn't exactly a new position to take, so not sure people need to langer themselves on that. Now, I'm sure that opinion *included* Potter, but I think when North Americans or continental Euros, where coaches are usually well below some sort of sporting director in the line of command, talk about a club being well-run, they're referring to the macro level of ownership/management/squad building and resource allotment much more than what the gaffer is doing. Maybe a different story to Britons who think of managers in the SAF/Wenger mold