Graham Potter succeeded Thomas Tuchel at Chelsea early in the season after The German tactician was sacked after the defeat to Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League group stages.
The appointment of Graham Potter was greeted with many positives looking at the brilliant job he did at Brighton. Graham Potter started work at Chelsea on a good note after the 47-year-old was undefeated in his first nine games in charge of the blues.
Chelsea is currently experiencing one of their worst performance in recent years. Graham Potter’s side are 10th in the Premier League and have won only two games in their last 14 games. The blues also risk being eliminated from the Champions League after a 1-0 defeat to Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of the Champions League.
Despite calls by the Chelsea fans to sack Graham Potter, the Chelsea fans and owners are firmly behind and sticking by him to turn things around.
Former Chelsea defender Frank Leboeuf has admitted he would be delighted to see former Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane replace Graham Potter at Chelsea.
What did Frank Leboeuf say?
Asked if Zinedine Zidane would accept the Chelsea Job, Frank Leboeuf told ESPN: “I don’t know, but it would be a very good idea, I think. I would be very pleased.
“I’ve never asked him if he wanted to go come to England. I asked him if he didn’t speak English, but he responded in English. So, you know, he speaks English a little bit.
“Maybe he could be in charge of Chelsea. I would be very, very happy about that.”
Meanwhile, Gary Neville has revealed that Chelsea needs to offload some players to take the pressure off Graham Potter.
He said on his SkySport Podcast: “Graham Potter is under massive pressure; you can see it in his face.
“I watched the highlights of their game against Southampton, and you saw all the chances they missed. You heard the boos at the final whistle, too, and it feels a little ominous for Potter.
“I think the Chelsea owners will want to do the right thing. They’ve sacked a manager early [Thomas Tuchel] and got their own manager in.
“They’ve invested heavily in Graham and this team. But they need to hold their nerve if they want to see it through. I suspect that nerve is being tested when you spend that level of money, and you’re still losing games.
“Graham Potter is a fantastic coach, but I get the feeling watching him that he would like to build a pattern of play with a group of players on a consistent basis, and he’s got 33 players staring at him right now.
“These aren’t junior players, they are senior internationals. I can’t imagine what that must be like. I was a manager for a very short period, and we had 22 or 23 players at Valencia, so you’re looking at 11 players there who aren’t going to play every week.
“Potter has got more than 20 players that are not going to play. If they were all fit, how do you even get them all into a training session? A good training session would be between 16-20 players.
“So to have 33 players there, that isn’t right. It just isn’t right. They needed to offload some players for Potter and take that pressure away from him a little bit.
“It’s been chaotic and a little mismanaged under the new owners. They’ve invested heavily and put their money where their mouth is, but it won’t be a successful project when you’ve got 33 players there, all looking at the manager and a manager who wants to build a measured project.
“It feels conflicted in terms of what the manager wants and what the owners want right now.’
“It’s been chaotic and a little mismanaged under the new owners. They’ve invested heavily and put their money where their mouth is, but it won’t be a successful project when you’ve got 33 players there, all looking at the manager and a manager who wants to build a measured project.
“It feels conflicted in terms of what the manager wants and what the owners want right now.”
