{"id":12342,"date":"2023-04-04T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T12:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=295829"},"modified":"2023-04-04T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T12:30:22","slug":"brightons-roberto-de-zerbi-not-in-the-contention-to-replace-graham-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/brightons-roberto-de-zerbi-not-in-the-contention-to-replace-graham-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton\u2019s Roberto De Zerbi not in the contention to replace Graham Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"f96013c9-c88e-4d7e-a725-c20e33d11a4a\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Roberto De Zerbi had been linked with the vacant job at Stamford Bridge. However, it is understood he is committed to Brighton and is not Chelsea\u2019s preferred choice to replace another former Brighton manager.<\/p>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"2ab8de45-a9c0-4360-b746-400813d353c1\">According to <strong>The Athletic<\/strong>, the Chelsea hierarchy hold Tony Bloom and Paul Barber at Brighton in the highest esteem, but De Zerbi does not fit the profile they want. The process of appointing a long-term replacement for Potter is underway. De Zerbi has impressed at Brighton since replacing Graham Potter last year and is focused on winning the FA Cup and qualifying for Europe.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Chelsea not considering Brighton & Hove Albion head coach Roberto de Zerbi for vacancy. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CFC<\/a> have highest respect for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BHAFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BHAFC<\/a> but won\u2019t be coming for another boss from there \u2013 43yo Italian\u2019s profile not what they\u2019re seeking & isn\u2019t on list <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheAthleticFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7E2vlob3ji\">https:\/\/t.co\/7E2vlob3ji<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Ornstein\/status\/1643219780378189825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"087f3d91-9f27-4ffb-8b1a-a281da05424a\">Nagelsmann is the favourite to replace Potter. For the time being, Bruno Saltor has been appointed interim manager. The club hopes to start interviews for the vacant managerial position this week. The Blues paid \u00a321.5million to land Graham Potter in September last year for a tenure that lasted only seven months before he was sacked on Sunday. The club\u2019s co-sporting directors, Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley, lead the search for a new manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto De Zerbi replaced Graham Potter at  Brighton & Hove Albion FC in September last year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":34718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3471,3577],"class_list":["post-12342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-graham-potter","tag-roberto-de-zerbi"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}