{"id":607992,"date":"2022-01-18T03:08:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T08:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=607992"},"modified":"2022-01-18T03:08:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T08:08:51","slug":"brighton-hove-albion-graham-potter-everton-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/18\/brighton-hove-albion-graham-potter-everton-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton &#038; Hove Albion Manager Graham Potter Not Looking to Leave Club Amid Everton Rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/09\/brighton-price-yves-bissouma\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Brighton &amp; Hove Albion<\/a>\u00a0manager Graham Potter has said he is happy with the job he has at the South Coast club and referred to his current employers as being one of the \u2018best run clubs\u2019 in the Premier League. The comments have been reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/60031420\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC Sports\u2019 Simon Stone<\/a> and come after Potter\u2019s name was linked with the vacant managers\u2019 job at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/16\/rafael-benitez-sacked-by-everton\/\" target=\"_self\">Everton following the sacking of Rafael Benitez.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/2. Full Graham Potter answer re <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialBHAFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@OfficialBHAFC<\/a>: &quot;I am very happy here, one of the best run clubs in the PL, with a fantastic owner, chairman, CEO, sports director, great people at the club. A nice environment to work in. An ambitious club.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Simon Stone (@sistoney67) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sistoney67\/status\/1483081282192039939?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Brighton Manager Graham Potter Happy on South Coast<\/h2>\n<h3>Speculation<\/h3>\n<p>When asked about the speculation surrounding the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/16\/roberto-martinez-favourite-everton-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Everton<\/a> job, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chardandilminsternews.co.uk\/sport\/national\/19853419.graham-potter-happy-ambitious-brighton-links-everton-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Potter<\/a> did not want to be drawn on the issue. He said: &#8220;I can\u2019t comment on speculation, things that are out there in the newspapers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Potter has a contract with Brighton &amp; Hove Albion until 2025 and said he is focused and happy to be at one of the best runs clubs in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cI\u2019m focused on my job here, very happy here at, in my opinion, one of the best-run football clubs in the Premier League, with a fantastic owner, chairman, CEO, sports director.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Flattered<\/h3>\n<p>The vacant Everton job is not the first time that Potter has been linked with a move away from Brighton having been linked in the past with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/15\/north-london-derby-postponement\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/17\/newcastle-united-transfer-news-jones-badiashile-navas\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Newcastle United <\/a>before they appointed Eddie Howe. Potter said he isn\u2019t really flattered by the links and again referred to the rumours as pure speculation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just the speculation or people want to write something,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The reality is I\u2019m at a really good football club that helped me. I\u2019m not here because I\u2019m that good, it\u2019s because I\u2019m at a good club and I have good support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Potter enjoys the support he receives at Brighton and whilst the rumours are unlikely to go away, it appears that he is not looking for a move away from the AMEX stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"2ONVSMJGRZxRfcowuCZ7dg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1362381778\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'2ONVSMJGRZxRfcowuCZ7dg',sig:'GbnM0Wk68MyygoVjllOSuRqsL4PT8L5kgU9pgF9_T3g=',w:'594px',h:'381px',items:'1362381778',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton &amp; Hove Albion\u00a0manager Graham Potter has said he is happy with the job he has at the South Coast club and referred to his current employers as being one of the \u2018best run clubs\u2019 in the Premier League. The comments have been reported by BBC Sports\u2019 Simon Stone and come after Potter\u2019s name was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2488,"featured_media":608013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1265,13,30,3],"tags":[2024],"class_list":["post-607992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brighton-and-hove-albion","category-everton","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-graham-potter"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}