Chelsea football club, or their owners to be precise, really keep their fans on their toes, but mostly because some unusual actions, not with trophies or anything like that. So much has happened since Roman Abramovich sold the club that we tend to forget that the new owners decided to sack the Champions League winning coach Thomas Tuchel and appoint Graham Potter to be their next boss. But it did happen just two years ago and it didn’t ended well. After paying a hefty sum to Brighton, the Blues appointed Potter, spent 300 million pounds on new players and sacked him after just seven months. And now the ex-coach believes that the big sum of money spent on recruitment was part of the problem.The league’s most expensive player begins to show his qualityIn a first interview since his sacking, Potter talked about the pressure and expectations in Chelsea.“I take responsibility for the results. I’ve never said I’ve ever been perfect and you live and you learn, and you are grateful for the opportunity and grateful for the experience you had there. But there’s probably a context that has appeared. The easy solution is Chelsea aren’t winning, so it must be the coach who has never worked at this level before, he’s the problem. That might not be 100 per cent wrong, but it’s not 100 per cent right” said Potter to The Telegraph.Senegalese striker better than Salah, Isak and HavertzHe also points out at the situation he inherited, with a mid-season World Cup, an injury crisis and a record 323 million January transfer spend that left him with a squad so big that the players could not all fit into the changing room.“It was almost like the perfect storm. It was 14 matches in six weeks prior to the World Cup. It was like you were in the washing machine, that’s what we said within the staff, because the games kept coming and we had no preparation time or anything. 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“ explained Potter.Internal war: Chelsea owners trying to buy out each otherNot only did the expectations were now sky-high, but there was too many players in the dressing room, literally.“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. A few of them just had to sit on the floor. It’s not ideal, of course. Everybody recognised it was a really difficult situation because you can only pick 11 players and if you’ve got 20 players not playing, it doesn’t matter where you are. If you can find a coach out there who says: ‘Yeah, that’s the best condition for me,’ I’d be very surprised” admitted Potter who also revealed he is ready to go back to coaching, but won’t except just any offer.PREMIER LEAGUE – MATCHDAY 6Saturday14:30: (5.30) Newcastle (4.00) Man.City (1.63)17:00: (1.22) Arsenal (7.25) Leicester (15.0)17:00: (2.30) Brentford (3.50) West Ham (3.25)17:00: (1.75) Chelsea (3.60) Brighton (4.90)17:00: (2.85) Everton (3.35) Crystal Palace (2.65)17:00: (2.45) Nott.Forest (3.40) Fulham (3.10)19:30: (7.75) Wolverhampton (4.80) Liverpool (1.40)Sunday16:00: (4.40) Ipswich (3.50) Aston Villa (1.85)18:30: (2.35) Man.Utd. (3.60) Tottenham (2.85)Monday22:00: (1.65) Bournemouth (3.80) Southampton (5.40)***odds are subject to change***
