Discussing Roberto De Zerbi’s start to life as Brighton manager, Brentford boss Thomas Frank mused that “it must be quite nice coming into a well-run machine”.
De Zerbi has been parachuted in at the Amex in what is a rare position of luxury for an incoming manager: not under cover of nightfall and a hail of bullets but amid blue skies and sunshine. His task is not one of regeneration or rescue, but of continuity and subtle improvement, the Italian looking to build on the success that effectively earned his predecessor, Graham Potter, the Chelsea job.
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