Potter's 'surreal' Chelsea reign: 'Harry' nickname, players changing in corridors & more
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The fallout from Graham Potter's sacking at Chelsea continues - and today The Athletic can take you inside his 'surreal' reign. Join David Ornstein, Simon Johnson and Ian Irving as they provide some of the details from his curious seven months at Stamford Bridge.
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U can't lose a dressing room u never had
In nearly 50 years of watching Chelsea I've witnessed the club flirt with chaos but never at the current levels. What happens when the loan army returns in the summer? The new manager will have a squad of over 50 players! Chelsea have become a circus of the absurd!
Translation "we have no idea what happened, but perhaps he was too nice".😂
@toomuchinformation
Жыл бұрын
It was quite clear what happened. He was the wrong man for the job, appointed for the wrong reasons. He didn't have the respect of the players and it showed in the results.
Oh no, he is not toxic and didn't swear? Get him out... Reporters (like people in the athletic) cost him the job.
@toomuchinformation
Жыл бұрын
No, poor results did. The media didn't help however.
@PiratesRock
Жыл бұрын
LOL. Let‘s just ignore all those defeats, (twice against Southampton), that did him in.
@joshuahall453
Жыл бұрын
So easy to blame the media, Chelsea sacked a manger without thinking and potter was shafted
@cjarmstrong5939
Жыл бұрын
Fans booing might have had an impact
@maxsch8454
11 ай бұрын
An excessive run of poor results cost him his job
So basically, he was bullied. Whether someone is Pep Guardiola or not, they deserve the same respect. It says more about the players.
@nyanobrien9885
Жыл бұрын
No, not in Premier league. The competition weeds out the weak. Matches are war, not a school tournament. Players need a general to keep million dollar heads level. Like in the military when we have a superior who is weak. We embarrass them tactically in front the brass. Either they shape up or ship out. But will not be lead by weakness.
@zac5572
Жыл бұрын
@@nyanobrien9885 he did better under Brighton coz the players aren’t disrespectful
@toomuchinformation
Жыл бұрын
@@zac5572 They're a smaller club.
@toomuchinformation
Жыл бұрын
@@nyanobrien9885 That indeed is the nature of the beast. Players at top clubs don't have respect for managers who haven't won anything and it shows in the results. It was the same when David Moyes was at Man Utd.
@maxsch8454
11 ай бұрын
he wasn't bullied in the slightest...
Naglesman should think twice before accepting Chelsea's offer
@GOATBryan10
Жыл бұрын
Lol no, stop being an absolute casual 🤡
@couturecriminal8330
Жыл бұрын
No it is still a sexy job Christopher Vivell and Lawrence Stuart have worked for the Red Bull Group in the past plus Nkunku coming in the summer.
@mg3554
Жыл бұрын
Which club should he go, where if he doesn't perform how the club want he won't get the sack ?
@hasankarim95
Жыл бұрын
@@mg3554 nobody is safe in football but Chelsea is another story,he should go to less demanding team with good project and has "modern football mentally" if i was naglesman i would go for Liverpool or Dortmund or AcMilan or Ajax or Atletico Madrid,idk but not clubs like real Madrid or psg or Chelsea or ManU
@tuffmbassador522
Жыл бұрын
Definitely if havertz is still there
The first real sign he would lose his job was when he got hired 🙄.... Have you not watched Chelsea in the last 20years
Players changing in the corridor? How’s that potters fault or problem 😂
@_orodrigofernandes
Жыл бұрын
It's not his fault but it's something that he had to deal with. Too many people working without the proper facilities and not getting game time since Chelsea has 40 first team players. It's just messy. 40 players. Forty!
@bj11755
Жыл бұрын
What? Did you even watch the video? Nobody said it was his fault. They did say it was a problem that would affect him in the sense it would affect performances. I’m honestly struggling to comprehend this comment but I guess people just make shit up these days.
@jamesabbott8621
Жыл бұрын
He's a Palace fan and dribbles his way through life
@maxsch8454
11 ай бұрын
It just proves that he wasn't up to it, just because he has these players doesn't mean he has to include them all. All he had to do was identify his best 11, the team he thinks is best at getting results, and stick to it. He clearly wasn't capable of doing it.
The sheer incompetence and chaos is absolutely ridiculous. Boehly owes Potter an apology for tarnishing this coach’s reputation. Potter was doomed from the outset if these reports are true. 😠
@sina7601
Жыл бұрын
The incompetency of one doesn't negate the incompetency of another. Potter didn't have a specific reputation in the first place. He has never won anything nor worked at this profile and won't ever do that either. He is an adult who knows what he was signing up for and from a salary of 2.5m/year came to 12.5m and for this 6 months because of his sacking got 20m. A wise person knows whether a job is too big for them or not and whether they can handle it and Potter got greedy. Boehly and Eghbali have micromanaging style but if you have backbone and character you won't allow them to do so or once you are negotiating the deal you talk it out and define the scope of work and responsibility but Potter was happy with that because he is a yes man + he really thought that he can manage Chelsea like Brighton and made fun of fans telling them the owners have changed I'm here for long time blah blah but any fool knows that in football fans are the one who decide whether someone stays or not the owners just execute it. If you lose the fanbase even if you are getting the result then you are finished. Many people say he has emotional intelligence education but having studied something doesn't make you an expert in it nor it means that you can execute the theory yourself and Potter certainly is not an emotionally intelligent person.
@lesliekay2097
Жыл бұрын
@Sina! Absolutely brilliant analytic!
@maxsch8454
Жыл бұрын
Potter tarnished his own reputation by bring crap
@Saksham00007
10 ай бұрын
Yup, his reputation and professional capability should not have been tarnished. He didn't deserve that. Yes, its Chelsea, & he wasn't getting results, but the way they disrespected this guy as if he was worth nothing made me angry. Wish he just learns from this crazy tenure & does terrific at his next club again.
@maxsch8454
10 ай бұрын
@@Saksham00007 he didn’t deserve what? The sack? He definitely did, he should be grateful that Chelsea ever considered him.
David with a crisp trim over here!
Need to build a new stadium just to accommodate the huge squad
Tottenham and Chelsea are two clubs , proper managers should stay away for their own valuation in the market.
The very same press was reporting every thing was going right and players loved him. In few words, you guys know nothing from the inside apparently.
@bj11755
Жыл бұрын
They don’t say the players didn’t like him… almost every report even after the firing has said that the players liked potter but in this video they report on issues at the club and with potters confidence. I’m assuming you either didn’t watch this video or just want to hear what you want.
@ciarandavis1651
Жыл бұрын
Have to say, think the press + the Athletic have been v.fickle on Potter, lauding him one minute and bringing him down the next. Very clearly the blame lies with the owners and their incomprehensible transfer policy which seems to lack any purpose or understanding of how to build a squad.
@michaelpungwe7593
Жыл бұрын
@@ciarandavis1651 The minute they decide to go their own way without any advises from football people, we knew that wouldn't have a happy ending. You can't buy a new business a sack every single ones who were running it for decades.
Ornstein talks a lot of waffle. Watched a lot of these. Beats around the bush states the obvious covers points we already now and doesn’t offer any insight despite being a journalist with contacts. Fair play he’s doing well considering he brings nothing new to the table.
@bj11755
Жыл бұрын
You do know that David Ornstein was the first to announce over a dozen major transfers in the last year? I’m sure your sooo good at your job lmao.
Its sad seeing professional football players calling names to thier manager. This is is not kindergarten or high school. You're getting money every week. Have some shame. Agreed Potter was bad. But calling names is too much
@j.s3300
Жыл бұрын
People do that in every work place. Fuck, people have names for the prime minister
@bj11755
Жыл бұрын
This happens at every club to every manager… it’s banter and at most clubs it helps keep unity amongst the squad.
@collapsiblechair9112
Жыл бұрын
premier league footballers, on the whole are pampered young lads who live within a bubble no wonder they act childish.
@j.s3300
Жыл бұрын
@@collapsiblechair9112 whats most fans excuse?
I don't see Nagelsmann trusting Chelsea, i think it will all hinge on how Lampard does & how Chelsea finish the season. Enrique seems the one who Boehly wants, solid experience & a coach who'll likely work with the wide squad at the club. Nagelsmann..is no doubt an excellent manager but when he joined Leipzig...he specifically said he wants everyone on the same page & ultimate responsibility for decisions. Boehly will clash with him, just as he did with Tuchel. The fact he is looking at Lampard after Potter tells you he wants obedience. Nagelsmann is too good a manager to take on Chelsea despite the wealth...he is a good long term option for Liverpool & Madrid. I wont rule him out of taking it though because if they can offer 60m to Potter.. then no one would turn down that kind of money.
@zac5572
Жыл бұрын
Both said no to Chelsea 😂😂😂
I recall hims saying also how he was struggling with the increase in fixtures per week compared to Brighton.
when things not working. we should terminate those players contracts first. not manager
6:55. Graham Potter has to shoulder "some" blame? The word is "half" not "some". The other half is Todd's cross. Missing Roman from Day 1.
@maxsch8454
11 ай бұрын
But what is the blame Bohly has to share? the blame for hiring potter
Potter is not an impact manager. The board hired him for a long term job, messed up the squad with poor transfers/ lack of sales, then sacked him when they should have backed him. Getting an interim manager in was pathetic! Basically gave up on the season with 10 games to go. Where is the benefit of sacking Potter if you don't get a new manager in to assess the squad?
The incompetency of one doesn't negate the incompetency of another. Potter has never won anything nor worked at this profile and won't ever do that either. He is an adult who knows what he was signing up for and from a salary of 2.5m/year came to 12.5m and for this 6 months because of his sacking got 20m. A wise person knows whether a job is too big for them or not and whether they can handle it and Potter got greedy. Boehly and Eghbali have micromanaging style but if you have backbone and character you won't allow them to do so or once you are negotiating the deal you talk it out and define the scope of the work and responsibility but Potter was happy with that because he is a yes man + he really thought that he can manage Chelsea like Brighton and made fun of fans telling them the owners have changed I'm here for long time blah blah but any fool knows that in football fans are the one who decide whether someone stays or not the owners just execute it. If you lose the fanbase even if you are getting the result then you are finished. Many people say he has emotional intelligence education but having studied something doesn't make you an expert in it nor it means that you can execute the theory yourself and Potter certainly is not an emotionally intelligent person just by the face of his press conferences or his reaction to the situation at Chelsea. Give this team to Pep Zidane or Klopp and see what happens. Give it back to Tuchel to see that Chelsea will win CL again this very season. If it wasn't for the points that Tuchel got at the beginning of the season Chelsea would be in relegation battle now, the scoring record of Chelsea hasn't been this bad since 1929 and this team scored last season 77 goals that should tell you how clueless incompetent and bang average coach Potter is.
Nagelsman will get swallowed up here hes younger than Thiago Silva, they need to clear out about 10 players in the summer and decide on a playing style then hire the best manager to fit that. But it needs someone with some gravitas to manage all those egos.Bring back Carlo!!!
Lampard makes Potter look like a genius
There's a core of players there who've never won anything but think they know everything and they're dragging the club down.
I really feel for Potter. Its the ownership, if they could kick a champions league winning manager like Tuchel on the ass, that too in a flash. It would have been so difficult for Potter to budge the owner who put him incharge
@maxsch8454
10 ай бұрын
You feel for someone who got 12 million for 7 months of failure? The owners have made some mistakes, the biggest being appointing potter. He should never have been considered.
Chelsea FC is an absolute mess.
I don't know why any top manager would go there if they're just going to have random signings chucked at them that they don't want.
@terrymccarron9894
Жыл бұрын
£12,000,000 per annum?
I'm surprised a prankster didn't just turn up at the Chelsea training ground in full training gear and try and bluff it as a new signing...50:50 Potter may have just let it slide...😂
@toomuchinformation
Жыл бұрын
John Terry?
@maxsch8454
11 ай бұрын
that's pretty much what someone did except they pretended to be the manager from September onwards.
They need Big Sam, man for these occasions
@geztaylor
Жыл бұрын
If your answer is Big Sam then your asking the wrong questions. The only talent Sam has is making great players look average, what a boring turgid playing style, yuck.
Some of the comments on this video are hilarious. Potter was the worst Chelsea manager for almost 30 YEARS. Chelsea have been the one of if not the most successful club in terms of total trophies since the millennium. This same core squad won the Champions League, Supercup and Club World Cup 1-2 years ago. Potter's replacement at Brighton is outperforming him even after losing core 1st team players. Potter is too nice to be an elite level manager. Every top manager is the world commands respect and fear from their squad. Potter may even be an elite level tactician but if his personality doesn't demand that he be listened to an obeyed then players aren't going to fight for him and they're going to take the piss because they know he only has authority by title.
Let it burn!
I won't feel bad for Potter. As a manager, you earn respect. Nobody is going to automatically give it to you. Getting called names etc is just something workers do. You can't be getting paid millions a year and can't deal with a little childishness.
13:20 utter tosh
Chelsea are a mess
Chelsea or Tottenham. A hobsons choice...
Todd Boehly really living up to the moniker of clueless Yank. Giving a bad name to Americans. 🤦🏾♂️
I still remember chelsea fans saying Todd signing 40+ players in January was a smart move and that he is the best owner, I wonder if they are starting to realise the obvious mess he was getting Chelsea into
@moreish7193
Жыл бұрын
40 in january? Are you high ?
Class A circus
That PSG spokesperson is correct, Chelsea is a grade A circus 😂
@realdude007
Жыл бұрын
No spokesperson from PSG has ever said anything sensible about football. Paying Kylian 1mil/wk, consulting Kylian before appointing club manager,sacked Tuchel who won UCL with Chelsea,...list could go endlessly 😀 PSG is modern-day Circus grade A+😅🤣🤣😂
Chelsea don't even know how many players they have on the roster. Yikes.
@itaigurira21
Жыл бұрын
Maybe the owners were thinking along the lines of American Football
I was skeptical from day 1. He never seemed like the man for the job.
Chelsea needs a proven manager! Chelsea has one of the best and deepest players in the world!!! How a manager fails to get the best out of these players is just disappointing!
@digontozahid
Жыл бұрын
They dont stop embarrassing yourself with your ignorance
@previous_leon
Жыл бұрын
mate they have bought players with potential. they can be world class but they are currently youth players. mudryk had only 11 goals in the Ukrainian league before they signed him. it's gonna take 3-4 years to build this team
Potter isn’t made for an elite club like Chelsea.
@jamesabbott8621
Жыл бұрын
Chelsea are a mess and that is not down to Potter. He will go on and have a great career
@inticfc7734
Жыл бұрын
@@jamesabbott8621 worst Chelsea manger of all time factually. Your excuses won’t change a fact.
@GuiltyBystander8
Жыл бұрын
@@jamesabbott8621 the lowest winrate of any chelsea manager in the premier league era, he is WAY out of his depth
@maxsch8454
11 ай бұрын
@@jamesabbott8621 Chelsea finished 3rd and reached two cup finals the season before, and it won the CL the year before that. The club is only in a mess because Potter made it so. He will never get a job as big as this again.
I'm a utd fan,and it's sad to see Chelsea in this state at the minute...I hope they get back on track as the league is better with them in the mix for trophies.