Graham Potter: My big 'mistake' with Chelsea owners during 'impossible' job

Graham Potter has lifted the lid connected his sacking astatine Chelsea, revealing the 1 mistake helium made regarding the owners and what made the occupation "impossible."

Potter lasted conscionable 7 months astatine Stamford Bridge aft becoming Todd Boehly and Clearlake's archetypal managerial assignment pursuing the sacking of Thomas Tuchel successful September 2022.

The erstwhile Brighton manager was tasked with overseeing a caller gyration astatine Chelsea arsenic the nine spent record-breaking amounts to motion the world's champion youngsters, but ended up being dismissed the pursuing April with the lowest points-per-game instrumentality of immoderate Chelsea manager.

Potter made a uncommon TV appearance, arsenic a pundit connected Sky Sports' Monday Night Football aft much than 18 months retired of the limelight, to sermon Chelsea, links with Manchester United and more.

“The civilization astatine Chelsea implicit a play of clip has got them occurrence truthful I respect that," Potter said. "I accidental you could consciousness that from the outside, the media and the supporters. Perhaps the mistake I made was that I thought with caller ownership determination would beryllium a alteration of culture.

“But civilization runs a batch deeper than that. Before the World Cup, we’d lone mislaid 3 matches successful the Premier League — 1 to Arsenal, who were apical astatine the time, and to Newcastle and Brighton distant — but the satellite was closing successful and we were adjacent to crisis.

“Perspective is not ever casual to get, and astatine the clip Chelsea were utilized to winning and competing. It was casual to accidental it indispensable beryllium the manager arsenic he’s not utilized to playing astatine this level oregon worked astatine this level. Maybe helium was the problem, and I could recognize that arsenic the results weren’t what they expected.”

Chelsea's ownership person since hired and fired Mauricio Pochettino, and fixed some Bruno Saltor and Frank Lampard interim spells successful charge, earlier handing the occupation to Enzo Maresca implicit the summer.

There was a batch of adjusting. It’s intolerable to play everybody successful each minute. Finding that stableness was a struggle

Graham Potter

Potters says the moving situation was "very turbulent" and suggests that the ample intake of players made the occupation "impossible", but appears to laic the blasted astatine his ain feet.

He added: “After speaking to the owners, they were precise ambitious. They wanted to situation for trophies and usage younger players. The accidental to person that accidental to enactment with younger players and physique an environment. We did immoderate things well.

“All of a abrupt determination was a spot of accommodation to beryllium done portion inactive trying to compete, the full squad was successful a spot of flux. There was a batch of adjusting. It’s intolerable to play everybody successful each minute. Finding that stableness was a spot of a struggle. You unrecorded and you learn. It was a precise turbulent play successful Chelsea’s history. I privation I had done better.”