Graham Potter

Chelsea have fired manager Graham Potter with the club languishing in the middle of the Premier League standings despite spending around US$630 million on ...

Leicester actually made a profit of about US$65 million in that window. “The task ahead of us in our final 10 games is clear,” Srivaddhanaprabha said. But Leicester’s players were no longer responding to Rodgers and there was no sign of an improvement in performance levels.

The board makes a good decision by undoing its self-evidently appalling decision to appoint him in the first place.

In the end the job is to make this work. To this must be added the cost of missing out on the Champions League and the procurement of another manager. Not only did Potter arrive with no experience at this level, he found himself confronted with an utterly nuts version of what this level was supposed it be in the first place. This is not to suggest that Potter hasn’t made mistakes or poor in-game decisions or shown limitations at this stage in his career. This total is made up of a £21m release fee to Brighton, a £13m payoff for Champions League winner Thomas Tuchel and something similar for Potter now (this is rarely the full value of a contract, but hey, we’re on Todd time now! And least of all on the day

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.