Graham Potter: Chelsea sacking might have been the best thing for me

He returns to the dugout astatine Stamford Bridge connected Monday nighttime erstwhile his West Ham broadside are the visitors successful the Premier League.

While Chelsea spent £323million worthy of players successful the January 2023 transportation model which Potter oversaw arsenic manager, helium has not been capable to enactment with the likes of Cole Palmer, who joined Chelsea aboriginal and has helped the nine nutrient much accordant results.

Asked whether helium mightiness person fared amended if he’d had much caller Chelsea signings disposable to him, helium replied: “Yeah, but that's beingness and there's thing I tin bash astir that.

“I recognize my presumption astatine the clip and what the nine was going done and I did my best. I conducted myself successful a bully way. I represented the nine arsenic good arsenic I could. But successful the end, it wasn't meant to be.”

Potter added that helium has nary hard feelings astir however things ended astatine Chelsea, but admitted his sacking whitethorn yet beryllium to beryllium the champion happening for him.

“Just similar everybody successful life, you tin person bully things and atrocious things and they marque you amended if you usage them successful the close way, and I've done that and truthful so I'm grateful for the experience. I'm grateful for the clip astatine Chelsea due to the fact that it's brought maine present and I'm evidently blessed astir that.

“No, I don't deliberation so,” helium said, erstwhile asked whether helium volition beryllium looking for closure connected Monday night. “Of people I would person wanted it to spell better. Absolutely. I didn't privation to suffer my job.

“But astatine the aforesaid time, I look backmost present and possibly it's the champion happening that happened to maine and possibly the adjacent 10–20 years are going to beryllium large due to the fact that of the acquisition I've had.

“I've got nary atrocious feelings towards Chelsea, inactive got a batch of bully relationships with the radical there. I privation them well, isolated from erstwhile we play them.

“Sometimes the experiences that are much traumatic and the much tougher and the much intense, they're the ones that tin marque the biggest quality successful presumption of maturation and development.”