Graham Potter breaks silence on his time at Chelsea

Former Chelsea and Brighton manager Graham Potter has, for the first time, spoken about his time with the Stamford Bridge club.

Graham Potter was speaking in an interview with the Telegraph where he confirmed that he took responsibility for everything that happened during his seven-month reign at the club. According to him, there are a lot of things that happened at Chelsea during his time at the cub.

What did Graham Potter say about Chelsea?

Potter expressed his displeasure with the way through board handled the signing of players during the January transfer window.

He said,

“We lost Reece [James] and Wesley [Fofana] to injury. I think we had the most players at the World Cup and pretty quickly afterwards we lost Raheem [Sterling] and Christian Pulisic. Then the ownership decided to invest a lot of money in the squad, £300 million in the January transfer window. Now, if you are spending £300 million on players that are coming from outside the Premier League, from countries that are having a mid-season break, then the reality is you can’t just imagine they are going to hit the ground running and everything’s going to be fine. But, obviously, if you spend £300 million, the pressure on the team goes up and the pressure on the coach goes up. And people go: ‘Come on then, you’ve spent all this money.’ I think if I’d have spent it on Harry Kane and Declan Rice, then fair enough, but at the time that was the decision. We tried to support it as best we could, but it left us with a challenge of a lot of players after January and then they can’t go anywhere.”

Chelsea appointed Potter in September 2022 following the sacking of Thomas Tuchel. Potter signed a five-year contract but was sacked after less than seven months in charge. During the reign of the former Brighton man, Chelsea won 12 matches, drew eight draws, and lost 11 in all competitions.

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