Graham Potter was smart enough to grasp the risk in jumping into the hot seat at Stamford Bridge, he was likely not naive to the list of incumbents behind him who had all lasted less than three years with the exception of Jose Mourinho since 2005.
As the dust settled on Saturday's humbling 4-1 hammering at the hands of the team he helped to build, maybe the scale of the task might become clearer. Although Potter now boasts a higher quality of player and bigger resources to improve the squad, one thing he had at Ostersunds FK, Swansea and Brighton was a different set of expectations.
Few Brighton supporters would be crying about "standards" for dropping points to Brentford, or asking him what he'd won to get the role. He had time to go through the growing pains, the poor runs and the process to build the exciting unit that so ferociously swarmed Chelsea at the AMEX.
