Graham Potter is the anti-Mourinho. Spurs should hire him immediately.
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If you were to take Jose Mourinho, invert everything about him and form a new manager from the strange matter that Inverse Mourinho left behind, you’d probably end up with someone a lot like Brighton & Hove Albion’s Graham Potter. Calm, contemplative, introspective and scholarly, Potter comes across as the Yang to Mourinho’s Yin. That comparison seemingly applies to everything except, apparently, table position. We’ll get to that.
Pep Guardiola recently referred to Potter as “the best English football manager right now,” high praise for a 45 year old manager who only just guided Brighton to a place in the Premier League table that is safe from relegation. But to point that out would be a bit of a disservice. In an interview with Oliver Holt in the Daily Mail on Saturday, Potter touched on his philosophy of the game, one that extends be