I’m here to do my work and then if that convinces them that’s fine." There’s nothing you can do, but certainly I’m not here to convince anybody. "But obviously it’s maybe different for me, for some reason. "I think Pep (Guardiola) was (at Manchester City) a year before they’d won anything, and then obviously Mikel (Arteta) and Jurgen (Klopp) took a bit of time. I’ve been here four months and five, six weeks of that have been lost to international football. So they understand the challenges that we have and the direction we want to go in. "The owners are billionaires so they’re quite smart," Potter said last month in the middle of Chelsea's poor run of form. Malo Gusto was signed but headed straight back to Lyon on loan, however Benoit Badiashile, Mykhailo Mudryk, Noni Madueke and Enzo Fernandez have all been brought in for sizeable fees with the latter two making their debuts on Friday.ĭespite a difficult first few months, Potter continues to have the backing of Boehly and Behdad Eghbali.
The poor run of form prior to and during January saw Todd Boehly invest even more money than what was spent in the summer to acquire eight new players for Potter, totalling a spend of £323million. READ MORE: Gary Neville delivers brutal rant on Chelsea's January transfer business amid contract criticism Performances have improved in recent weeks with the Blues able to keep three clean sheets from the last three league games, taking home five points out of a possible nine. The 4-1 defeat to his former employers Brighton kicked off talk of a premature exit with six defeats from 13 games following that result.
Rumours surrounding the significance of his appearance then started to develop after Graham Potter saw his side fail to beat the Cottagers in a west London derby three weeks after losing to them at Craven Cottage.ĭespite a superb unbeaten start, Potter's status as Chelsea boss has been under scrutiny for practically his whole tenure, with fans particularly upset at the dismissal of Thomas Tuchel just 15 months after he had won the Champions League. A wild Chelsea fan theory emerged over the weekend after Germany manager Hansi Flick was spotted at Stamford Bridge for the Blues' Premier League game against Fulham on Friday.
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