Graham Potter has been criticised for playing the "blame game" after revealing several Chelsea first-team stars admitted to him their pre-season tour was the worst they'd ever experienced. The Blues headed to the US for several pre-season fixtures, with a 4-0 thrashing against Arsenal the damning highlight.
There was significant uncertainty riddled throughout the club at the time of the tour regarding football operations and Thomas Tuchel admitted at the time the club were struggling. "It's quite a challenge after change already the third time the location," he told Chelsea's in-house media on the changes across the USA.
"A lot of travelling, another time zone, a totally different feeling of temperature, huge humidity, so very demanding for first training and the players are struggling with the heat. We give maybe more time and space to drink – more break – but we can’t hide from the fact we’re in pre-season and we have to, somehow, put kilometres into the legs. From this point, we don’t adapt."
