"It is what it is. You hear a lot of people say 'there's no loyalty' - well there isn't. Because if you lose a few games there'll be people shouting for you to be sacked pretty quickly. “if they think I'm not the right guy for them, in terms of results, they'll make a change. Regardless of whether I'm a good guy or not, it's nothing to do with that, it's because they have to make a change."
Those were the words of Graham Potter a couple of months before he would be approached by Todd Boehly to replace Thomas Tuchel in the Chelsea dugout.
He knew what he was getting himself into, the only shock might have been how quickly things went awry. But to assume that Potter is unaware of the brutal reality of elite football would be a naive approach.
