Thanks now I don’t have to watch the video 👍

And you were right

Thought that analogy was a bit daft initially but the more you think about it, Chelsea most likely have at least 10 monopoly cars in their squad that won't fit any given system/jigsaw. It's madness

Its like they put 4 different but color schemed puzzles in the same box: one with a horse, one with a donkey, one with a cammel and one with a giraffe

@@brothatisfunny Aubameyang is definitely the donkey

Very much in the vein of Zapp Brannigan's: “If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.

The whole Chelsea squad are pieces from different puzzles. Difference is Tuchel came when the pieces were a lot weaker than the current pieces and he STILL burst onto the scene and WON THE CL! Potter's pieces are 10x better and he is STILL horrid and can't get a win to save his life. Potter getting down on his knees to use Boehly's wallet is what ruined Chelsea. Potter is just not the manager you can depend on to handle a "galacticos" inspired team like Boehly's Chelsea.

Tbf, Potter’s Brighton eventually started to outperform their xG. So it’s not like up until Potter left, they were always underperforming. But it is an odd correlation between Brighton of the past and current day Chelsea.

De Zerbi's style of possession is more direct than Potter's. He prefers his players to make shorter passes between the centre backs and midfielders then find a penetrative pass to the running attackers. Potter's teams tend to pass it around more slowly getting closer to goal

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@@opinionatortv6457 that has nothing to do with outperforming xG

​@@gummemoryproject6477 Yeah people seem to forget that his main striking option at Brighton was Maupay with some support from primarily an ageing Glenn Murray (1st season) and a constantly injured (and hardly prolific anyway) Danny Wellbeck. Without Maupay this season Brighton had scored 14 goals in the 7 games before Potter left for Chelsea which isn't a bad return, while Maupay has scored all of a single goal since his transfer to Everton. I suspect the lack of goals probably was far more to do with Maupay than Potter.

I don’t get the Arteta comparisons. Arteta didn’t have so much financial backing. I get that it’s a scatter shot approach but with so much players of high potential there’s bound to be some usable parts in there. Also he walked into some quality players like Silva James azipulcueta kovacic and Mount. Honestly the injuries are his biggest excuse, but it’s getting pretty bad.

I agree. I wasn't expecting us to challenge for the league straight away under Potter and was happy to give some space to rebuild, but I honestly haven't seen a single positive in our performances in the last month, only further decline and that's when I get really concerned. It honestly looks like all the life has been sucked out of our team.

Same. I wanted Potter at Chelsea, and have tried to come up with reasons it isn't working so far. I think injuries were a legit factor but even not considering that, there has been more excuses than improvement. He's lucky the new regime are much more lenient, so if they sack now it's warranted. Potter is a still a great person, but sorry the current state is more than poor for the level.

Potter's record in 2022/23 is the same as Tuchel's record in 2022/23 - so you must be that you're happy that Chelsea sacked him.

@@cfc4E tuchel has 60 wins 24 draws and 16 losses at chelsea. won 60% of his games(100). potter has 9 wins 7 draws and 10 losses. after this season potter will have more losses than tuchel with way less games

All because he has the right nationality to be shielded from criticism. Conte, di Matteo or Mourinho were heavily criticised for far better results than this.

This bvb performance is why he was hired

yeah no idea why they put a back 3... it'd even suit them better the return of chilwell and james and with RLC and Enzo on, but we can see each match they are in a4231 shape, with the fullbacks and CDM duo not being allowed to go up enough and João feliz is def not RW, he drifts both sides all the time as a 10.... at the same time Ziyech drops inside a bit more than he'd be at his best even (i'd like to see him RWB whipping crosses too, but he's playing RW... not ball carrying enough and trying to force crosses or shots even when surrounded by players in the middle). That formation JJ put on would actually be better but well... potter is insisting in 4231 for past 2 months but anyway every single comment in the video seems to be just to help a manager they like?? sure, there are mitigating circumstances that he's trying a new system mid-season with tons of injuries in december and new players arriving in january. But ultimately, nothing is being done to make the present works. Even the subs in game, lineup choices, the formation not up for the best of each player traits, and even the insane non-explained freezing out of aubameyang when Kai is clearly not working ahead of João (Kai himself should play behind a striker) etc... all seem to be focused on that idea of "implementing a new culture in the club in the future" at the expense of fighting to not relegate and basically being unbearable to watch. let`s face it, all chelsea fans should refund their tickets for the rest of the season. It`s not being good to watch, and it`s not changing anytime soon. Culture-changes can take months to year to settle in, and they arent worried about the short-term losses now. It's just not worth it to the supporters to follow them as it is now and it won't be for a while... the way they fired Tuchel implies they might not know how make evaluations to replace Potter anyway too. It's a crisis of confidence on the judgement on the new owners, not on Potter, as they show intent to win with the money spent but only a sketch of a planning of how they're planning to do so I do hope that after they buy at least a second club and start the multi-club structure they can spread around better the excess talent around them and maybe, idk, move potter there and put a real manager in chelsea (they should apologize and bring tuchel back, really)

I’d just mention the fact Tuchel had Rudiger, Kante, Chilwell and James available all the time who were ESSENTIAL to his football

And a day later he plays a back 3 🤔

And malo gusto

There are 34 including loanees and injured players.

Worst part, after all this money spent on so many young promising players, we still have the same problems from the transfer ban era. We’ve had a pretty decent squad for a while. What we needed is to cover our most pressing needs, a forward, a dm, and a progressive cb, with true elite players. With the money spent, you’d think we would habe solved that

​@@IEPerez1994 CB is not an issue.

And Kante is going to resign a new contract. But Kante and Enzo could cook if Kante stays available

The Tuchel decision does seem stupid in hindsight.

​@@phightinphil25 Did Tuchel have a fall out with the owners?

@@chriswilkinson7636 yes

@@sosman747 So why are people still asking why Tuchel was sacked? If he fell out with the owner of the club what does everyone expect to happen?

Then how will any manager become big?

Joe is very Divine

Ifeel the same way. I’m tired of the constant turnover of coaches at Chelsea. I want a manager I can love and appreciate for a decade or more. I want the team to win but be stable at the same time. However, I like the point they made at the end of the video. Just because Potter may get sacked, that doesn’t mean he couldn’t have been the guy. Hopefully if he is sacked, we can get a manager who’s willing to be ours for the very long term but who faces different circumstances when starting off that allow him to get credit with the fans, board, and players.

​@Justice Gambino the team is stable now. Stably losing. We are sticking to a manager out of a misguided principle.

The problem is that I think Potter is not the right manager for what Boely is doing. Boely likes the idea of Potter but doesn't seem to want to operate in a way that would best serve him. Fundamentally, Chelsea and Potter are not a good fit. You might find that given a summer transfer window and a pre-season Potter starts coming good but I fear hes simply the wrong sort of manger for this project.

exactly. It's really hard to say because there's so many compelling arguments for and against. Thankfully, as a neutral, I can just sit back and observe with curiosity. Chelsea are undoubtedly very interesting under Boehly, no idea if they're going up or down from here in the long run. I believe he has good intentions but I'm not convinced that he's got what it takes to run the club properly. Either way, time will tell where they will end up. Hopefully they'll do well in the end, whether under Potter or someone else. It's always nice to see many teams playing well.

IMO the board made an error in judgement not trying to mend things with TT. They probably underestimated the difficulty of coaching. Let alone being a single man transfer committee along with it. It's difficult to find coaches that are not only successful but also adjust well to the club. Honestly think it couldn't have been worse if the board tried to understand TT's grievances and given him support in the sense of a better communication medium, and half the patience afforded to Potter. I mean we could still rehire TT and save money which we owe anyway, but I'm no fool believing that'll happen.

that's what I think he might lack, the balls to actually do it and to bench the players he doesn't rate. He's not helped by the owners just buying anything that moves and all those new players expecting to play a role in the first team, so not wholly his fault, maybe he's trying to cater to the board's wishes. But still, he needs to get it right if he is to succeed in an elite club. That's the whole difference between him and someone like ten Hag, who would, by now, have gone through with changes whether players like it or not, and found a way to at least improve a bit.

@@maciejbala477 Ten hag is a good reference here, although he had the benefits of lower expectations off the back of ole & ralf meager season, He initially gave people a chance in the first few games, then after that basically made some direct decisions, made some people unhappy but also made others better because of it. United's transfers have also been surprisingly astute too.

Some of his selections have been baffling. Ziyech starting in particular makes no sense given he was a technical error away from moving to PSG. Where is the clarity of the plan? Is the player in or out? In order to trying to keep everyone happy (board, players, fans) he's keeping none. He's got to make some tough choices in a clear direction and stick with it. He's chopped and changed his tactics, players, and excuses. I desperately wanted him to succeed, still do. But if results don't change drastically next few games then the bar's too low even for me.

Improvement is not always linear. Give the man a full preseason and he may well succeed for years to come!

It's a body double!

It's CGI!

It's a pre record, they recorded this in 2017

It's an AI deep fake

Music to my ears mate. That's exactly the situation here. Potter is good, but not for Chelsea.

It really isn't that bad, ask someone to hold you

If they sack him now, they have to pay him £60m!

@@loubloom777 madness innit. Are you related to Tony Bloom the Brighton Chairman by any chance? 😂

Well you wanted Potter , then you stole all Brighton’s coaches and our player of the year. Well you may have done Brighton a favour De Zerbi. Looks to have switched Brighton up a gear and Cucurellas replacement Esterpian actually looks better all round. Plus Brighton are about 90 million better off. Perhaps Chelsea have all the right players but not necessarily in the right order.

Exactly potter is out of his depth

Actually, it's the opposite. It's because he's English he's getting this abuse. The proof is Arteta. (Spanish) He got time, will Potter. (English) I doubt it.

@@Viewer41 Arteta did much better than Potter did and with way worse players so you're wrong

@@KVOSkillz where's your proof? Potter has been given 30 players to integrate as a team by an American owner playing football manager. That's just as hard as no players. Arteta was allowed to shape his own squad.

@@Viewer41 I have proof in an infographic but I can’t post pictures here. Potter first 26 games : 1.31 points per game Arteta first 28 games 1.93 points per game Potter goals scored per 90: 0.96 Arteta goals scored per 90: 1.61 Potter win percentage : 35% Arteta win percentage : 57%

I don’t think he will able not too it will be either 0-0 or 1-1 going into the last 5 minutes Potter has made is mind numbing substitutions Leeds will be knocking on our door and nick the game by a goal

He will give every team 3 points. He is a horrible manager who had 1 good season and belongs in a club that spends its season fighting relegation. Chelsea has been dragged into the bottom half due to his trash tactics and philosophy.

​@@arugono that's certainly a way to announce to the world you don't watch football

@Orosz Tamás So losing every game and scoring 0 goals is a good tactic and philosophy? Are you mixing up American Football with Association Football? Do you even know what is Football?

@@arugono you still didn't get what he said😂

I believe 1st season should never be counted for evaluation (unless it went really bad for Chelsea, like relegation battle). Same case with Moyes at United, he only got a short time and only 2 transfers (Mata and Fellaini). Especially when a total rebuilding is required.

@@HenSt-gz7qj I do kind of agree. I don't even want Potter sacked more just saying if he did get sacked I wouldn't be shocked at all. You can only expect so much in football when someone is performing so far below expectation.

Maybe Potter could be a good manger at a big club just perhaps not a Chelsea. Perhaps signing a new star filled 11 every season both raises expectations unrealistically and creates an unbalanced and non cohesive squad especially if you sack the manager every season. In some ways ETH has had a much easier problem to fix (barring Glazer meddling) as outside of the winger position he inherited a squad with little depth and no serious candidates (minus Garnacho) for adding to the rotation.

@@HenSt-gz7qj tuchel won us 35% of our current point and he was sacked in September so without tuchel we would be in a relegation battle now

If you think Potter is the victim then you clearly don’t know anything about the situation at Chelsea.

I think CR affected Ole in various ways but it's a different situation. When Ronaldo was searching for a club, Ole publicly said "he knows where we are and that he's welcome". You could say that the one who had Ronaldo thrust on him was ten Hag and he decided to limit Ronaldo's game time. Potter's situazione is dramatically different and more complex but it will help his character as a manager if he overcomes it

He is a Champions League winner too, decent shout

So good hes still not got a club.

@@JamesHussain82 why drink water when you can sip ribena?

@@barnaclefelching4079 because Ribena isn't available everywhere.

@@barnaclefelching4079 Diabetes is another concern. Better just drink water...

100% agree Cole - if Chelsea want to move forward from our previous history of sacking managers every few months then we need to give Potter the opportunity to implement his tactics, formation and preferred starting 11, and sell everyone that doesn’t fit into the rebuild. A pre season would do wonders for the club, I just hope Todd doesn’t try forcing certain things onto Potter and just let’s him cook.

He has no idea what he’s doing

Totally lost isn’t he

Far cry from Conte diving into the crowd, or Tuchel and Lamps fighting opposition managers 😭

The comparison with Arteta I do get because he was in like 15th I think at some point. The thing is though I think most people were shocked Arteta kept his job at that stage, saw way more people calling for his head than backing him because it made sense the way they were performing at that stage. In the same way that it's not healthy to sack people every two seconds, just saying "no we can't sack him what if in 3 years time he gets good" is equally stupid.

​@Jase no it doesn't there are stats of artetas first season vs potters similar amount of games and artetas results, goals scored, ppg, goals conceded were all a lot better

@@franciscunningham1939 Yeah but most people don't care about that. Arsenal that first season were in a similar way points wise and I remember the calls to sack him all the time. Just because Arsenal didn't sack him and it worked out well though doesn't mean anything. Plenty of managers have been given time and just kept doing badly. See Pardew at Newcastle.

but bear in mind that Potter also took over a Chelsea that just sold their best defender (Rudiger, Christensen who's a good defender also left), have no natural striker (Werner is more of an inside forward similar to Auba), no quality DM other than Kante (who's out injured), and no depth on the RB (leaving a gaping hole after James got injured). and the transfers made so far doesn't seem to be complimenting on what Potter need to improve his squad. Yes he hasn't been implementing a solid tactic or philosophy but I wouldn't put all the blame on him.

@@ApocalypticRenegade arteta won a trophy in his first season to EARN time. Potter has shown nothing but incompetency.

Think it might not have come up in the video actually, but in prep JJ also talked about how Potter had a preference for 11v11 training sessions, which is pretty much impossible witu this size of squad. Little detail maybe, but interesting to imagine the effect it might have.

@@joedevine4746 that is interesting, I bet it would have an effect. We can talk so easily about how well the systems and tactics on the pitch suit the squad, but how well the actual training suits them too...would be hard to know anything concrete there but it does make me wonder. Great content as always anyway, and also great book from the whole team! I read it myself then gifted it to my dad as a Christmas present, he loved it

@@mylittlethoughttree thank you!

You forgot to add that Potter has the same record at Chelsea as Tuchel this season. The problems were inherited.

@@cfc4E same record ?

@@tutor1989 Yes. ​2022/23 Thomas Tuchel 1.43ppg 2022/23 Graham Potter 1.31PPG

@@cfc4E tuchel had 3 wins in 6 games.. Potter has 5 wins in 18 games..10 points in 6 gqmes is 1.66 ppg.. 21 points in 18 games is 1.166 ppg

@@tutor1989 No, Tuchel had 3 wins in 7 games (1.43PPG). Potter had 9 wins and 7 draws in 26 games (1.31PPG)

Stay and finish Chelsea off? He will bring Chelsea within 3 to 6.points of relegation this season and probably finish the job next season.

Exactly why he may need to be departed with. Handling the egos. We can complain all we want about the big egos there but it's part of the job and we need a manager who can handle them. Potter is not the man for that job.