Sorry that Hughton got the bullet. But football is all about results.
Interesting what other pros have said about his strengths. Clearly someone who has high professional standards, and yet his teams relied on defensive solidity rather than expansive, attacking risk taking. Or as current football jargon has it, bravery.
It appears Graham Potter will get the gig. He has Klopp and Pep tendencies. Which is to say, he is an advocate of possession based football where the work without the ball is as crucial as the work with it. One fascinating side issue is what (if anything) he does with Liam Rosenior - a Hughton appointee. Rosenior is evidently a gifted coach. But he’s more than that. He’s one of the most thoughtful and analytical voices that Sky have unearthed over the past 2 years.
At a juncture when Sky are pushing the BAME narrative (for spurious reasons, sadly and predictably) over the Hughton sacking, Rosenior is, for me, the unpolished diamond who could become an exceptional coach/manager, or, if Sky had the foresight, a much more insightful and erudite pundit than either Carra or the hackneyed Neville.
