The Chelsea owners have taken so many punches to the face this season with negative results - Potter lost 11 and won 12 of his 31 games as head coach - that it is a surprise the manager lasted so long. have now discovered the hard way what former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson meant when he said that 'everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.' Potter was supposed to be a similar long-term appointment - a coach who would synergise with the new ownership group's blueprint for recruitment and style - but Boehly and co.

At the Dodgers, Boehly hired Dave Roberts as manager in 2015, where he remains as the longest-serving coach at the franchise since the 1970s. Stream on ESPN+: FA Cup, LaLiga, more (U.S.)īoehly and his fellow investors have discovered in a very short space of time that football is, quite literally, a whole different ballgame. It was an appointment made by an inexperienced and naïve Chelsea hierarchy that believed he could fit the model adopted at Boehly's Dodgers baseball franchise onto a Premier League club. Spending £47.5 million to sign a declining Raheem Sterling from Manchester City, then recruiting £10m striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Barcelona on Tuchel's recommendation, six days before firing the coach, are other rash decisions which have done little to help the team.īut if dismissing Tuchel just seven games into the season was an ill-judged move, it was compounded by the hiring of Brighton & Hove Albion manager Potter to take over. There have been plenty of other bad choices along the way by the club's new owners - a consortium led by Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly. The second was appointing Graham Potter to replace the Champions League-winning coach at Stamford Bridge. And that's the owners' faultĬhelsea's biggest mistake this season was sacking manager Thomas Tuchel in September. Graham Potter was wrong for Chelsea from the start. You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser

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