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Is that why they signed Jordan Ibe and Dominic Solanke for a combined 40 million quid?
So why not give him the same time that Potter got ?? Potter finished 15th in first season and 16th in his second on 41 points both times . Hughton was sacked after Finishing 17th on 36 points .
They were bought by a Las Vegas based guy 18 months ago.
I’d say potter will prove everybody wrong in due course.
O Neill will be managing in league two sooner rather than later
One thing agin that Potter lad, he never picked young Mitomo.
Loads of managers make mistakes tbf.
O Neill was just lucky and his luck would run out sooner rather than later.
Better to act know than when it’s too late.
I too would doubt him. I think theyve done him a favour. He’ll get a chance to bail out a bigger and more well resourced club.
He’ll be lucky to get a championship job
What’s his track record of showing he knows what he’s at as regards football?
American ownership in English football has a pretty chequered history. It runs from the good (Fenway at Liverpool) to the so-so (Kroenke at Arsenal) to the poor (Lerner at Aston Villa, the Glazers at Manchester United) to the terrible (Hicks and Gillett at Liverpool, Boehly at Chelsea).
The owners of Southampton, Watford and Swansea thought they knew what they were at, until they didn’t. The same will likely happen to Brighton at some stage down the line. Bournemouth will always be a club that is doing well to just hang in the Premier League.
What dealings did Brighton and Liverpool have in the past 12 months other than the sale of Alexis MacCallister? €40 million for a World Cup winning midfielder in the current climate is a good deal for Liverpool. Brighton probably got mugged off if anything there.
So you’re willing to give Potter as much time but O Neill gets none , bizarre stuff
Except Mcallister is absolutely useless
I doubt it
Football ownership is not a field I’d particularly look to for identifying genius. The way it works is some small clubs tend to have a good run of it for a few years and then they make a bad decision or two and can’t replace key players or managers, and things go downhill.
Charlton, Bolton, Stoke, Swansea, Southampton, and probably a few others I can’t think of right now, all thought they had cracked the code, but they hadn’t. Leicester thought they were suddenly a big club because they nipped in for a very unlikely league title in a once in a lifetime shock. They weren’t.
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Okay so this is just your usual seethe about Liverpool. Carry on.
Gary O’ Neill did a tremendous job at Bournemouth. That was a Championship squad on paper and he managed to keep them afloat. Nothing wrong with pragmatic football. He sent Spurs, Chelsea and Liverpool home with their tae in their mugs.
Come to think of it maybe Gary O’ Neill might be interested in the Republic of Ireland job?
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Gary o Neill just got lucky Is all.
That doesn’t tally. On the one hand you’re saying Tony Bloom is a genius for putting in place a framework to identify cheap talent that has got Brighton up to finishing 6th in the league.
Then on the other hand you’re saying Brighton’s player of the season is useless.
Both can’t be true.
Under potter Brighton the data told you they were a goal scorer away from being a very good side who’d fly up the table.
The data tells you Bournemouth were very lucky.
That’s why he’s sacked.
Bloom got a big profit on the player and will reinvest the money to sign a superior player.
Is he still young enough to play for us? He might have an Irish granny? It’s always a granny, isn’t it.