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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Ed Aarons

Brighton to begin talks this week with candidates to succeed Graham Potter

Kjetil Knutsen, the Bodø/Glimt head coach, is the bookmakers’ favourite to take over at Brighton.
Kjetil Knutsen, the Bodø/Glimt head coach, is the bookmakers’ favourite to take over at Brighton. Photograph: Reuters/Alamy

Brighton will step up their efforts to recruit Graham Potter’s replacement as head coach in the coming days after assessing a shortlist of potential candidates that includes the Norwegian Kjetil Knutsen and the former Shakhtar Donetsk manager Roberto De Zerbi.

The Brighton owner, Tony Bloom, met the chief executive, Paul Barber, and the technical director, David Weir, this week to discuss their options, with the Lens manager, Franck Haise, understood to be another under consideration.

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