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[Meercat]

If what I heard is right, Ratcliffe had a word to gently suggest that Potter didn’t take the Swedish job recently…

 

[taidgh]

If what I heard is right, Ratcliffe had a word to gently suggest that Potter didn’t take the Swedish job recently…

Source? Did someone whisper this in your ear, or you read it somewhere?

 

[Meercat]

Source? Did someone whisper this in your ear, or you read it somewhere?

Someone whispered it in my ear - actually one of Potters ex players from Östersund - there was a big thing at Dalkurd, where one of my mates is involved (it’s the Kurdish immigrant team not far from where we live) so we were invited to the do a couple of weeks back, and this guy was mates with my old coffee shop owner (which was how I got the invite the first time, we go every year now). We got chatting over dinner and I said how he always told me how much those guys loved Potter, and I’d heard he was up for the Sweden job… he could have been blowing smoke, but he said he still talked to Potter regularly, and he’d met with Radcliffe a while back, before he turned the Sweden gig down… so…

 

[taidgh]

Someone whispered it in my ear - actually one of Potters ex players from Östersund - there was a big thing at Dalkurd, where one of my mates is involved (it’s the Kurdish immigrant team not far from where we live) so we were invited to the do a couple of weeks back, and this guy was mates with my old coffee shop owner (which was how I got the invite the first time, we go every year now). We got chatting over dinner and I said how he always told me how much those guys loved Potter, and I’d heard he was up for the Sweden job… he could have been blowing smoke, but he said he still talked to Potter regularly, and he’d met with Radcliffe a while back, before he turned the Sweden gig down… so…

I appreciate you sharing the source. All too often 'I heard...' is code for 'read on Twitter'.

 

[Meercat]

No worries - like I said, doesn't mean much as the world changes a lot, and who knows they may have their eyes on Poch for all I know - but he did go from favourite for the job to turning it down to focus on returning to club football, so I have a feeling there's something in it.

 

[muppetman]

Potter would be a good manager for them, IF they accept that they need a rebuild and it's going to take time.


Exactly!

 

[allatsea]

Potter would be a good manager for them, IF they accept that they need a rebuild and it's going to take time.


Exactly!

Very big IF. I don't believe their fans will accept this for more than say half a season.

 

[easley91]

Really depends on how Ratcliffe sees and changes things.

 

[Marty]

Potter would be a good manager for them, IF they accept that they need a rebuild and it's going to take time.


Exactly!

We said the same when he went to Chelsea. It wouldn't work out at United either.

 

[allatsea]

We said the same when he went to Chelsea. It wouldn't work out at United either.

Agree. The expectations are too high to allow him to make the necessary changes over time.

 

[HildoSpur]

We said the same when he went to Chelsea. It wouldn't work out at United either.

United are probably the worst run 'big club' in world football. At this stage only complete and utter reform from top to bottom will give them a chance to become anywhere near where they would hope to be. Potter wouldn't be strong enough (in my opinion) to push the owners and to implement a new structure there. Not sure who would to be honest, I think they are basically fucked.

 

[robotsonic]

Lol. LMAO even.

 

[BorjeSpurs]

Comments like this will, rightly, infuriate their fan base.

 

[robotsonic]

If that was a good performance in his eyes, then they may as well get rid now in the eyes of the fans. It was awful. Bayern were shit too, but United were hopeless. It really is quite odd to be this far in with the bloke and to see no discernible idea in their play. It's just sort of...general purpose football. If you took a clip and used that as the dictionary definition of "football" nobody could complain or misunderstand what football is. But there is no concept there or specific idea on how you're going to go about playing to win the game of football or affect the other team. Just endlessly recycling a sort of idea of technically playing football. Very odd. Long may it continue.

 

[philll]

 

[JeremyPaxton]

The problem for us is that this shower of shit is going to bring English team’s average UEFA coefficient down a lot, and that’s the difference between 5th in the PL getting a CL spot or not.

 

[robotsonic]

The problem for us is that this shower of shit is going to bring English team’s average UEFA coefficient down a lot, and that’s the difference between 5th in the PL getting a CL spot or not.

To be honest, I'd rather us just earn it on our own merit rather than their failure. There is plenty of joy to be had in how far they have fallen given how much we have all suffered them for 30 years. If we just end up with Europa because of it, so be it. If we didn't earn CL football then it is what it is. Sod United.

 

[Aleks]

Did some research and it's the top 2 countries that get the 5th spot. We are top. Europa league and conference count too. West Ham, Bright and Liverpool in Europa, Man City and the scum should be enough on their own.

 

[JeremyPaxton]

Did some research and it's the top 2 countries that get the 5th spot. We are top. Europa league and conference count too. West Ham, Bright and Liverpool in Europa, Man City and the scum should be enough on their own.

Yes it's the top-2 of the average coefficient of each country. So for the PL 5th to get a CL spot, the other English clubs now need to go that much deeper because ManU have fk all points and will drag down the average no matter what.

 

[cwy21]

Did some research and it's the top 2 countries that get the 5th spot. We are top. Europa league and conference count too. West Ham, Bright and Liverpool in Europa, Man City and the scum should be enough on their own.

England is top in the 5 year rankings which determines the base number of European spots. The extra two spots are only based on the coefficient for this season in which England is currently third behind Germany and Italy.