Chelsea manager the ‘hardest job in football’

Graham Potter has described managing Chelsea as “the hardest job in football.”

Chelsea journey to Fulham on Thursday night time in search of to enhance on a disappointing run of six defeats in 9 video games, which has seen them drop to tenth place in the Premier League desk.

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It will not be the begin to the season new homeowners Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital envisaged when assuming management of the membership in May, following sanctions positioned on their predecessor Roman Abramovich for alleged hyperlinks to Russia president Vladimir Putin.

Last summer time noticed a serious overhaul at an government stage with Potter changing Thomas Tuchel as head coach together with the departures of membership director and lead switch negotiator Marina Granovskaia, technical and efficiency director Petr Cech, chairman Bruce Buck, chief government Guy Laurence and head of worldwide scouting Scott McLachlan.

Boehly has since drafted in Christopher Vivell from RB Leipzig as technical director, Paul Winstanley as director of worldwide expertise and transfers with Joe Shields as a consequence of arrive from Southampton in a senior recruitment function alongside Laurence Stewart, charged with a “global technical director” function.

And Potter mentioned: “Change is challenging in any organisation. The change [of ownership] happened for events outside of us so it is not like there is some sort of coup gone on. This is what it is.

“We should take care of the new now and we now have to construct issues up once more as a result of issues have modified, issues have gone, individuals have left. That was a part of the problem to return [here].

“I understood that was going to be really difficult. I just thought from a leadership perspective, it is fascinating, challenging and stimulating and ridiculously hard.

“I believe that is in all probability the hardest job in soccer due to that management change and due to the expectations and due to rightly the place individuals see Chelsea. And clearly I did not assume we might lose 10 first-team gamers [to injury] as effectively.

“But that’s just where we’re at. All I can do is come to you guys, speak honestly, give you my perspective and then understand the criticism you’ll get because you lose, if you do.”

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Despite Chelsea supporters chanting the names of Tuchel and Abramovich in Sunday’s 4-0 FA Cup third-round defeat at Manchester City, Potter insisted he was not in garnering any sympathy regardless of mounting criticism of the group’s performances.

“Ultimately, I am not after pity here,” he added. “I am really grateful and privileged to be here. I look at how do you get through this tough period: be really grateful for it because it is an unbelievable challenge. Like, wow. What else could you be doing with your life? Worse.

“It is ache however then life can really be ache. Life can actually kick you in the nuts after which you must get better from it, you must take care of it, you must transfer ahead, you must go once more and that is what makes life higher when it turns to place.

“I feel like I have to take my responsibility and be grateful for the opportunity and the challenge I have.”