In a way it's a good thing that Graham Potter showed some emotion after the Brighton match. He looked exasperated and told the media that was. "sick of talking about positives." It wasn't exactly a Kevin Keegan-style meltdown, but the normally mild-mannered Potter went on to say: “I'm going to be frustrated. I'm not a robot. I'm a human being as well.I stand there myself, give everything to this, what I'm doing of course, I'm gonna be upset. I have to come here and speak calmly to you guys, but that's not how I'm feeling inside. If you want me to swear, I can swear."
He's clearly fed up with players not carrying out instructions, though he must take some blame too for putting on Coufal as a left back when he could surely have left Emerson there or moved over Wan-Bissaka. The fans need to see that Potter can get angry as well as show emotional intelligence. He's not made the difference that Moyes has made at Everton or Pereira at Wolves and with a less bad bottom three he might in danger of the sack. Results are no better than under Lopetegui, even if we're now more competitive in matches.
But as it is we have a project manager and he needs time. West Ham played fairly well for 83 minutes at Brighton and a couple of the goals were long-range efforts that normally go wide. Potter must now be clearer about the players he can't rely on. Major work will have to be done in the summer but if there's a bad start to the season the manager will again be under pressure. Let's hope this is as low as it gets.
2 comments:
We don't need a project manager we need a manager that actually knows how to put players in the position that they play in Potter was out of the mix for far too long and his stats before that tell us everything
I can't see a point in making a change now. Potter had a pretty impossible job with a bloated Chelsea squad but proved over time he could produce results at Ostersunds and Brighton. I'd agree that if results next season don't improve he'll be in trouble. Let's see how he reshaped the squad in the summer.
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