Graham Potter

The former Brighton & Hove Albion manager was appointed after Chelsea's owners, Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital, fired Thomas Tuchel last September. Potter ...

We have the highest degree of respect for Graham as a coach and as a person. “Along with our incredible fans, we will all be getting behind Bruno and the team as we focus on the rest of the season. Boehly and Eghbali said: “On behalf of everyone at the club, we want to thank Graham sincerely for his contribution to Chelsea. They are at risk of missing out on European qualification and decided that a change was necessary before they play Madrid. The decision came out of the blue. Chelsea had two centre-backs, Trevoh Chalobah and Benoît Badiashile, on the bench and two full-backs, Reece James and Marc Cucurella, in their back three. Potter was hired after the departure of Thomas Tuchel in September. But while Chelsea are in a challenging period after their change of ownership the poor results exposed Potter and drained the board’s patience. They play the first leg of their quarter-final away to Real Madrid next week. Chelsea have not paid the £50m that was left on Potter’s five-year contract but he is understood to be due significant compensation. Chelsea have drawn up a shortlist of candidates, including Mauricio Pochettino, and would like someone in place before pre-season. Chelsea have installed Bruno Saltor, who was part of Potter’s backroom staff, as interim head coach and want to think carefully before making their next move.

Potter, 47, left Brighton to replace Thomas Tuchel at Stamford Bridge in September -- becoming the first head-coaching hire under owner Todd Boehly. However, ...

"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.

The Blues are searching for a new manager after parting company with Graham Potter after less than seven months in charge.

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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.

Chelsea have sacked manager Graham Potter, the London club said on Sunday after a string of poor results left the team 11th in the Premier League.

"In his time with the club, Graham has taken us to the quarter final of the Champions League, where we will face Real Madrid. "We have 10 Premier League games remaining and a Champions League quarter final ahead. "Graham has agreed to collaborate with the club to facilitate a smooth transition," Chelsea said in a statement.

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).

(Reuters) - 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 ...

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. Pochettino, 51, has been out of work since a brief stint at Paris St Germain, where he won last season's Ligue 1 title.

There are lingering questions for the manager and club after Potter's Sunday evening sacking.

That still doesn’t preclude the possibility that the groundwork for such a search had already been done, given that it is known the Chelsea hierarchy realised as long as two months ago that they had to at least be prepared to replace Potter. They were willing to invest in Potter, and saw him as enjoying the same kind of development to world-class level that they believe will happen with so many young signings. That will itself pose big questions of this hierarchy, as they badly need to get this right. Chelsea feel they have a huge opportunity to win the Champions League again, and part of the rationale behind this decision was to give themselves “the best chance of succeeding”. That is because they just didn’t see enough progress in the team. He had to argue his case to go to Chelsea with Potter, something that became a bit more laden with emotion given that supporters argued Brighton made him as a player. This seemed too great a leap, that would require too much of a learning period. All of the appeals to emotional intelligence and what was genuinely good technical coaching that players enjoyed couldn’t overcome key realities of football. There’s still a very good and bright coach there - just maybe not the right one for this project. They wanted this to be a long-term project. Many of the players of course had names for the manager based on his wizard namesake, and there were repeated references to Quidditch. [Graham Potter](/topic/graham-potter), amid a story that a number of football figures considered inevitable.

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.

Graham Potter won just 12 of his 32 games in charge of Chelsea before being sacked just six months after replacing Thomas Tuchel as manager at Stamford ...

The former Brighton boss replaced Thomas Tuchel at Stamford Bridge [ in September allowing De Zerbi ](https://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/news/breaking-bruno-saltor-chelsea-potter-26620718)to take charge of the Seagulls. "I don't like speaking about other teams and coaches. "It is bad news for the coaches. "The players, the club, it's not very good news. I have a team with a very good attitude and mentality. Bruno Saltor has become interim manager for the time being whilst Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali search for potential replacements, with the club said to be hoping to start interviews over the vacant managerial position this week.

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)

Chelsea FC dismissed manager Graham Potter following a string of poor results that saw the club slip to eleventh in the Premier League.

Enrique is the former manager of Barcelona, where he led the Spanish side to the Champions League and La Liga crowns in 2015. Chelsea sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart broke the news to Potter in a “ Potter’s Chelsea slipped to eleventh in the Premier League following Saturday’s loss to Aston Villa. Some of the manager’s choices, like the continued decision to start struggling players like [Mykhailo Mudryk](https://www.wruf.com/headlines/2023/01/16/chelsea-sign-mudryk-in-108-million-deal/) while benching veterans like Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, generated anger throughout the Chelsea squad. Graham has agreed to collaborate with the Club to facilitate a smooth transition. The club paid £21.5 million to Brighton to land the manager, then signing the Englishman to a five-year, £50 million contract. Overall, both ownership and the locker room gradually grew frustrated with Potter. We have the highest degree of respect for Graham as a coach and as a person. “Co-controlling owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali said: ‘On behalf of everyone at the club, we want to thank Graham sincerely for his contribution to Chelsea. In his time with the club, Graham has taken us to the quarter final of the Champions League, where we will face Real Madrid. Chelsea hired Potter in September after continued disagreement between owner Todd Boehly and then-manager Thomas Tuchel. “Chelsea FC has announced that Graham Potter has departed the club.

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.