It is a statement that has been repeated by a number of Chelsea supporters over the past two days: Graham Potter would be gone if Roman Abramovich still owned the club. It is impossible to argue otherwise. Yet the more pertinent point is the 47-year-old would not have been hired in the first place by the Russian.
Abramovich preferred to appoint high-profile European coaches; a strategy that paid off given Chelsea's unrivalled success. But the club is no longer his. That period of Chelsea's history is firmly over.
Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital are now in control and have showcased over the past eight months that they will do things differently. It's why having made the decision to part ways with popular head coach Thomas Tuchel – with whom their relationship had alarmingly broken down – in September, the ownership group turned to Potter.
