Graham Potter hopes Chelsea’s owners will give him time to get things right — just as today’s FA Cup third-round opponents Manchester City did with Pep Guardiola.
After a dismal run which has seen the Blues win just one of their last eight Premier League games, Potter is already feeling the heat at Stamford Bridge. Some Chelsea fans don’t think him up to the task and he knows that, during the past two decades, when Roman Abramovich owned the club, that kind of sequence would have been more than enough to get him the sack.
Potter is honest and humble enough to accept he hasn’t got every single call right since replacing Thomas Tuchel in September. But the 47-year-old is adamant he is the right man for the job and insists he wouldn’t have left Brighton if he didn’t think Todd Boehly, Behdad Egbahli and the rest of the board would give him the backing he needs to lead the club into the post-Abramovich era.
