There's been a theme running among Chelsea 's managers over the past two decades.
Appointment after appointment, it's been levelled at Blues bosses that they've inherited a team already built for them and used players who previous coaches first implemented to skip to quick success. Antonio Conte famously rekindled Jose Moruinho 's team to win the Premier League title in his first season, while Thomas Tuchel lifted the Champions League a mere four months after replacing Frank Lampard, who'd battled under a transfer embargo to keep Chelsea within the top tier of European football.
But Graham Potter, five weeks into the job, has already taken a player who his two predecessors didn't want and prompted a surprising resurgence. In his biggest decision since replacing Tuchel in the Stamford Bridge hot seat, Potter installed goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga as his No.1 instead of previous first-choice Edouard Mendy - and his faith has been rewarded.
