Graham Potter

Chelsea are used to big personalities and winners as manager. Graham Potter never had the persona to succeed Thomas Tuchel at Stamford Bridge.

The fault lies with Boehly and his advisers in hiring a coach who was wholly unprepared and ill-equipped for the job. They demand a coach of a similar status to themselves -- a status earned either by achievements as a player or as a coach. But he was also more likely to embrace the approach favoured by Boehly of a coach focusing on the team and little else. None of them had won anything of note as coaches: assistant manager Billy Reid was a lower league player in Scotland whose management career peaked with eight years in charge of Hamilton Academical, while goalkeeper coach Ben Roberts was best known to Chelsea fans for conceding the then-fastest goal in an FA Cup final while playing for Middlesbrough against Chelsea in 1997. He was rightly regarded as a rising star in coaching following his work at Ostersund in Sweden, Swansea and then Brighton, but his credentials were also possibly overstated by virtue of him being an English coach in the Premier League -- a rarity in recent years. He guided Brighton to finishes of 15th, 16th and 9th in his three full Premier League seasons at the Amex Stadium, but his efforts already look set to be eclipsed by his successor, Roberto De Zerbi.

GOAL examines where it all went wrong for Graham Potter at Chelsea, with the Englishman destined to go down as one of the club's worst managers ever.

[HAVE YOUR SAY: Were the Blues right to sack Potter?](https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/chelsea-right-sack-graham-potter-after-seven-months/blt8bef4a98f65c1f74) As it turned out, he simply wasn't up to the task. [proving to be the final straw for the board](https://www.goal.com/en/news/graham-potter-sacked-chelsea-aston-villa-defeat-premier-league/blt579cabebd9cee4c4).

Chelsea sacked manager Graham Potter on Sunday after less than seven months in charge, following their 2-0 home defeat by Aston Villa at the weekend which ...

Mourinho, 60, is one of the most decorated managers in the game. Luis Enrique left his role as Spain coach after their World Cup last 16 exit to Morocco in December. ZINEDINE ZIDANE (FRANCE) - 14/1 Pochettino, 51, has been out of work since a brief stint at Paris St Germain, where he won last season's Ligue 1 title. LUIS ENRIQUE (SPAIN) - 14/1 He has also served as manager of Chelsea's youth and reserve teams.

Football fans react at Stamford Bridge to the sacking of Graham Potter. Potter was sacked by the Blues on Sunday following only seven wins from 22 Premier ...

Chelsea have fired manager Graham Potter with the club languishing in the middle of the Premier League standings...

The same two managers would likely be on a short list of options for Tottenham, who are also searching for a permanent manager after firing Antonio Conte last weekend. Potter leaves Chelsea with his reputation damaged, even if his first stint at an elite club has come in unique circumstances. "He has always conducted himself with professionalism and integrity and we are all disappointed in this outcome."

Chelsea paid a world-record fee to prise Graham Potter away from Brighton but have sacked him after just seven months in charge, making Todd Boehly and his ...

He departs with the joint-lowest points-per-game tally (1.27) for a Chelsea manager in the Premier League era. Saturday's 2-0 loss at home to Aston Villa made it 11 defeats in 31 games for the former Brighton boss. [HAVE YOUR SAY: Were the Blues right to sack Potter?](https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/chelsea-right-sack-graham-potter-after-seven-months/blt8bef4a98f65c1f74)

Graham Potter was sacked as Chelsea manager on Sunday. Harriet Lander/Getty Images. CNN —. It was just ...

He has always conducted himself with professionalism and integrity and we are all disappointed in this outcome.” “I feel for Graham Potter, but it was inevitable. You don’t change Tuchel for Potter. Despite falling out of favor with fans by the end of his tenure, Tuchel had guided Chelsea to the Champions League title in 2021 and is still considered by many as one of the best coaches in the world. Potter managed to win just 10 of the 28 league matches this season and leaves the team 11th in the Premier League table. [Graham Potter ](http://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/football/chelsea-champions-league-win-borussia-dortmund-spt-intl/index.html)was deemed the man to usher in a fresh, exciting era at Chelsea.

Graham Potter is out as Chelsea following a disappointing tenure that has seen the club slip to 11th place in the Premier League.

"Along with our incredible fans, we will all be getting behind Bruno and the team as we focus on the rest of the season. That includes breaking the British transfer record to sign midfielder He has always conducted himself with professionalism and integrity and we are all disappointed in this outcome. Potter was told of the news in face-to-face talks at the club's Cobham training base on Sunday and sources have said that a compromise was reached over his payoff, meaning he will receive less than the full value of his contract in severance terms. We have 10 Premier League games remaining and a Champions League quarter-final ahead. "We have the highest degree of respect for Graham as a coach and as a person.

American owners spent billions to buy the Premier League club and then millions more on players. But as Chelsea sinks in the standings, is the worst still ...

Chelsea’s finances, already in disarray because of the cost of the takeover, the new coaches and the new players, could soon come under more serious strain. It was beaten at home by Aston Villa on Saturday in Potter’s last game in charge, a performance that highlighted the effects of the curious squad-building undertaken in the last months. It is unclear how long his tenure will be, though, with Chelsea now starting a search for its third coach since the American takeover in May. It seemed, in the moment, a shrewd (if pricey) bit of business. There’s Marc Cucurella, the wing back brought in from Brighton at great expense but deployed, curiously, as a center back on Saturday; and forward Mykhailo Mudryk, whose experience did not seem to match his nine-figure price; and the 21-year-old Argentine midfielder Enzo Fernández. [dispensed with Thomas Tuchel](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/sports/soccer/chelsea-fires-thomas-tuchel.html), the German coach they had inherited, and who brought the club the Champions League title just over a year earlier. Within months, the owners of Manchester United and Liverpool had put their clubs on the market. They arrived in London at a cost of more than 600 million pounds (about $750 million), an extreme outlay that had no previous precedent, and which But it was also just the latest head-spinning announcement from Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali, the two American financiers who have thrust themselves forward as the frontmen for a soccer project that shows little sign of any overarching plan. This Chelsea, its new American owners said in their own private briefings to reporters, was going to be different from the one previously controlled by Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch famous for his habit of churning through managers. American owners spent billions to buy the Premier League club and then millions more on players. LONDON — Every week, it seemed, Chelsea officials worked their phones to quiet the whispers that Graham Potter was about to be fired.

'It's been a difficult 24 hours' said the Chelsea interim manager Bruno Saltor, one day after the club announced the sacking of Graham Potter.

Potter was relieved of his duties following Saturday's 2-0 home defeat to [Aston Villa](https://www.theguardian.com/football/aston-villa) after six months in the job. Saltor, who joined Potter from Brighton and has no previous managerial experience, is in temporary charge. [Chelsea](https://www.theguardian.com/football/chelsea) interim manager Bruno Saltor, one day after the club announced the sacking of Graham Potter.

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At Brighton, Potter had shown a confident and adept handling of tactics, getting the best out of the players at his disposal and tinkering with systems as required. They won’t have to pay out all of Potter’s £50m contract – but when combined with the £600m transfer outlay, this season looks more and more like an expensive mistake every day. It is Chelsea that has taken the biggest hit. In the end, he lost the most important battle – for results. At this point, sitting in 11th with 10 league games to go, Chelsea seem more likely to miss out on European football entirely. Potter was fighting a losing battle from the start. His mandate at the south coast club had been to implement a clear style of play and to develop young talent and sell them on to bigger clubs, thereby taking a long-term sustainable approach. The squad was simply too big for Potter to juggle the pieces effectively, the very opposite of his tight Seagulls unit. In fact, he was so obviously the wrong fit it was tempting to squint in search of some brilliant masterplan just out of sight, because this couldn’t be serous, could it? But trying to figure out the best way to use the horde of players at his disposal left the mastermind in a muddle. Both were due to a complex confluence of factors. Here was an elite manager, greatly experienced at the top level, who had delivered the club a Champions League, Super Cup and Club World Cup.