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As a Chelsea fan, I believe Graham Potter was really unlucky during his time at the club. He came in with a completely new squad and no pre-season, which made his job very hard. I think he could do well with another team in the future. However, his soft approach and the way he handled post-match interviews after bad results were frustrating. It didn't help his case; he needed to be more direct and explain what the real problems were. "The boys did everything" - but if that's the case, why were the performances so poor? It just didn’t add up.
Glad he’s doing well. Looks so much healthier. He will do well at his new job. Like most just need proper structure In my opinion he left Brighton a little too soon . But who was gonna turn that money down
He really is a great Coach, and honestly would have loved to see him at our sister-club Strasbourg. I am positive that he would do such an amazing job there.
He simply had to take the Chelsea job. More money plus the fact that the opportunity may never happen again. It’s easy in hindsight now to say that he shouldn’t have left Brighton, but almost everyone in the same position would have joined Chelsea
@SilentSzZ Yupp, that is most likely true. For him it was also a good experience to see the difference between a mid-table team and a big team. Expectations and all. I hope to see him soon on the scene. An unlikely scenario, but would be great ... Strasbourg 😅
I think Graham Potter did well to control the controllables at Chelsea, the rest was just an extremely turbulent mess that was completely out of his realm. The environment he walked into was undeniably chaotic-frequent managerial changes, a bloated squad, and a lack of cohesion at the leadership level. It’s difficult for any coach to succeed when the foundation around them is unstable. If he is going to take the Leicester job as reported, I wish him good luck. He's a talented coach.
Potter is a very nice bloke and that comes across. What also comes across is that he doesn’t have that self confidence bordering on arrogance needed to be a top manager. You can tell he is a bit all over the place in his mind he’s not assertive like the top managers are. The people interviewing him at Chelsea should have picked up on this.
He was better when he was in a job riding the wave of the Brighton success and being Chelsea manager, not oozing confidence but just normal but I think the sacking has traumatised him and this is a low point for him still. He says he's come to terms with it but he's still very emotionally turbulent. He seems to be a nurturing type, I can see him developing young players at cash strapped clubs but you're right he doesn't have the personality to handle top players with egos at top clubs.
The owners at the time didn't understand what a top manager is, that's why they sacked a genuinely top manager and replaced him with Potter. They thought the manager was more of a PE teacher/administrator.
Chipping in before it really gets going. As a Chelsea fan who grew up with us being one goal away from division three to my first game at the Bridge in 1984, my Chelsea is one where I’m happy if everyone gives 100% on the training field and on the pitch. Mr Potter was one of those guys. He brought in new ideas then had a flood of new players to deal with and it was one of those instances where I he was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t. Thank you Graham, I had your back all the way, it was a shame that no one near the top can afford the grace of a squad and a philosophical rebuild season. Irony being that we’re only just starting to brighten up now. Cheers, B
Just finished and my opinion is higher than it was before. One thing in football that I really want you to see at the top flight is that the fans stop being fans and change into supporters. If Graham had had that support and understanding his first season would have been seen as a success. Great podcast!
@@BretHigginsGreat comment, Bret. Completely agree with you. Wonderful HP chat where I'm just blown away by Graham's crisp articulation and impactful communication. Happy to see him reflect and unpack his time at Chelsea with so much honesty, openness and clarity. Wishing him and his family best for the future and conveying my cheers to you from Kolkata! 🙏
@@BretHigginsyou're right on the money with regards to the difference between fans and supporters. Fans are often there fanning the flames on social media whenever anything ever so slightly negative occurs, whereas supporters are there supporting the club, whether that be through encouraging the players and defending the club or financially through attending games and buying merchandise.
@@adhiraajray thanks, mate. I think it’s important for everyone to be honest with themselves and Graham does that with aplomb. When he returns to the fold, regardless of what club he goes to, I hope he’s successful and wins a few trophies!
20:46 my only issue w potter was that he didn't rule with an iron fist. Maresca came in and sent those he didn't rate to the gulag, whereas Potter kept everyone around. The easy example was Ziyech. He went from PSG offices into the starting lineup, which was not helpful to the development of Noni and Misha
@@boulevard14 It's looking more like the owners were very experienced, They have restructured the club from top to bottom and are looking scary with the amount of young talent they have. Anyone thinking these owners didn't know what they were doing are naive imo.
@haitch04 disagree entirely - hoovering up as much potential as possible because you have the funds to do so isn't being shrewd or having a masterplan - but if you sign that many players you'll invariably get a few hits. The fact is Chelsea could be much further down the line had they kept or bought in some experience to the spine of the team.
It's big club mate, winning is the only way and Chelsea had one of the worst season in their history. Sometimes it's not about changing the coach or tactics, you have to bring new energy to the club. And Chelsea is known by changing coaches so often, 2012 and Thomas Tuchel are good examples.
I empathise with Graham and wish him the very best. He obviously is very capable and has high EQ. Unfortunately, he goes against the conventional image that a successful manager (even outside of football) needs to be a dominant, disagreeable person. For that reason, I really hope he succeeds and proves people wrong.
I am a Liverpool fan. I love the authenticity and openness of the answers from Graham Potter. He was been through the "jaws of sporting death" at Chelsea.
Glad GP is doing well... There is alot of love for him amongst real English football fans not just CFC... Good man!... good to see what he says about the situation. Hope he is back in the PL soon!.
People talking about this being 90 minutes of excuses don't get the point. The environment you have around is almost as important as your talent/ability at certain jobs, like being a football manager. He could have been better and get better results, for sure, but whoever says "look at Maresca" doesn't understand that in order to get to that point there has been a process. Pochettino didn't get it right at Chelsea until the end, and if you look at the job he did at Tottenham it's hard to argue he isn't good enough for the job. It's just the same at Man Utd, if you think over the last decade every manager and every player are bad... Potter might not have the full package to coach a top 6 team, but let's see his performance at his next job.
@@urre14 depends what expectations were. to find consistency and a style then sure. tbh think he only won like 4 in 20 at brighton b4 he left so was a strange appointment anyway
I hope Graham reads these comments....my first game was in 1967,and he's a great guy,I think I speak for most Chelsea fans when I wish him all the luck in the future....personally I wish he was still with us....he walked into a very difficult situation,an almost impossible one to be fair. We would be doing even better if he'd been given more time. Good luck mate.
I hope Graham makes the right club choice and I think he can be a very successful coach. The challenges at Chelsea with an oversize squad and an iniexperienced ownership would have probably been beyond any coach.
As a Chelsea fan, I really do wish potter well. He’s a good coach who did really well at Brighton, at Chelsea he was set up to fail imo. I think he can rebuild his career like Moyes did at West Ham. Maybe he’ll even end up there if their current gaffer is let go during this season?
Always respected Graham Potter. And like he said, he knows the reality of the situation he was/is in. Yet the people that criticize him (even for doing this video) are still too immature to gain any sort of world perspective because they are set in stone in their ways or aren't learners.
Thanks for this. As a Chelsea fan I felt from the start he was not the right guy and still dont think he can take a top job. But I like that he has this strong mentality and willing to giv it another go. I would not be that strong mentally.
He’s a great guy and I believe he would have done really well with Chelsea. Although this interviewer is snidely trying to put the boot into Chelsea at any opportunity. Like a lot of these journalists. but Potter is too clever and I think he knows what he’s doing. Very nice to hear from him, he’s a top person.. hold your head high mate
One of the best episodes, high performance does not mean "win always", it also means that you do not have to be a bitter loser. Potter's love and gratitude towards his parents, family, and people who were part of his journey show him that he was severely misunderstood. I wish the football tribe were kind enough and rather not blind to see that and value that but well.., it is a tribe for a reason.
Sorry Graham really I am, I didn’t think you were competent enough to be Chelsea coach but after listening to this it’s clear you’re more than competent.. wrong place wrong time
Not ruthless enough, and messed around with starting line-ups way too much. He was Tinkerman v2, the first being Ranieri in 2003/04. My sense is he didn’t believe he could be ruthless enough. It was almost like he was flattered Chelsea would want him. Not the right mentality. He should manage West Ham. I think he could do something there.
I dont know how accurate this, but I read he is still being paid £245,000 a week from Chelsea. The agreement he reached with the club was that they would pay him until he found another job. I like him. He seems like an affable bloke.
Anyone that has had a loss (Big loss) this discussion with Graham Potter. this is a must. It could be the best hour & 20 minutes that you have spent. If you don't play football don't worry too much about what is said (football wise), however it will all fall into place. For having listened you will find that a lot of what has bugged you explainable. I was run over 01/01/1970, hospitalised 9 month & ended up with a right leg below knee amputation
@@ismaillugumire4540 I only mentioned my condition because I was hoping that by saying "listen to this" those with losses wouldn't think "What dose he know" no for sympathy.
I have a lot of respect for Potter's approach to management, he takes a long term view and I think that if Chelsea had stood by him by the end of year 2 you'd have seen the upcurve and stability coming through and by the end of year 3 you'd have seen them becoming a force again. Chopping and changing coaches has simply delayed the progress for Chelsea, Potter, Pochettino and now Maresca it's all going in the same direction but it appears that neither Potter or Pochettino were the right fit for the American ownership who don't value the development of the team but rather see the players as financial investments. Ultimately do you want to see players treated as commodities, or do you want them to feel pride to wear the shirt? I simply don't think that the ownership gets it because very very few Americans understand the culture. The exception to the rule are Ryan Reynolds and Rob McIlhenney at Wrexham, because they've taken the time to actually get to know the fans and the place and their investment is as much with their hearts as it is with their wallets. You can see the same things have played out at City, Newcastle, PSG etc When the ownership doesn't care about the fans, its not going to care about players or the management charged with their care and development, because frankly all they see are the $$.
Great interview, sounds like he walked into an environment with no structure and was expected to be an instant alex ferguson type figure that could control all aspects of the football operations overnight, with an new owner that was impulsive and scattergun in approach (probably with lots of other advisors interfering), when all he needed was better support structure around him. I sense he had very little time to consider and took the risk/challenge/salary when offered, fair play to him and no one can doubt that decision and he's clearly better off for the experience. I believe he's a great coach, just needs to pick the next role carefully - I'm sure he will.
you cant be a maneger of a big club without any arrogance just like enzo he is arrogant ruthless you have to have in yourself to be a top coach of a top team you cant be nice
Might get pelters for this but Graham leaving Brighton was the best thing for that club, others have taken them to a another level that most thought wasn't possible. Although I do fail to understand Chelsea wanting him when 6 months prior he went on a 3 wins from 23 in the prem and lost about 7 in a row.
Potter took Brighton to a level nobody though possible before him. Prior to that we were battling relegation and prior to that we weren't even in the Premier League. I'm assuming you don't know much about Brighton.
I agree we've improved since but the mentality and style of play all evolved when Potter came in. Before that we were happy sitting back and playing very defensive football. Potter was a revelation for the club and any proper Brighton fan will say so regardless of the outcome.
Might have been a mentality monster but at times his tactics and game management was appalling. De Zerbi and now Fabian have changed the culture of the club to one that won't accept being mediocre. Categorically was the best thing that happened to the club Potter leaving.
He is so used to lecturing that he is forgotten how to roll up his sleeves. I hate this guy's attitude of excuses. He doesn't get it. Chelsea is not a Brighton. It is like going to Madrid and telling the fans to believe in a process they cannot see. Enzo Maresca came in and we bought Felix, Jorgensen, KDH, Guiu, Kellyman Torson, Santos, Nkunku has barely played and there are a host of new faces but he has put structure to the team using common senae. Not everyone of those players they brought in at the time had to play. He had to make a team out of the players. He was just dreadful and was trying to normalize mediocrity in an excellent club like ours. I was so excited when they sacked you. What you need to understand is that they way you speak and your body language and mentality are key. You could be or are even a nice guy but football is a hard business and you must make choices that yield results. Nobody cares how long it took you to get anywhere. That is yours to know and protect all the years of work and sacrifices. But don't come to a club that was winning Champions League a year or two and try to install a mid table mindset there. I am highly disappointed that you don't hold yourself accountable more. Not many managers would let that opportunities slip but Graham let it slip and he is still giving excuses. 😅
There's no doubt Potter was at Chelsea at the wrong time. The new owners were taking a gigantic sweeping brush to the club and whoever had been Coach would have found the job nigh impossible, The owners had a business hat on and football was secondary to the task when restructuring. Graham was the fall guy as it happened, not intentionally I'm sure, but it turned out that way. The fruits of the Owners structural plans are starting to come to bear. Stability is happening with long term contracts, sensible wages and some of the best young talent in world football. Credit where credit's due.
Lets be honest all these managers only lose their ego when things go wrong. They get paid for failure every time, he does come across a genuine man though.
A nice fellow and a good manager, not sure he's cut out for the very top jobs but a good man .. tho it didn't work for him at Chelsea he wasn't particularly disliked by the fan base as a man , pretty sure he'll quick a reasonable welcome when he comes back.
Although i didn’t want him at Chelsea due to lack of success. He is a very good coach he showed it at Brighton, i just feel it was a David Moyes Man UTD situation where it was too big for him. I wish him the best for the future
I actually believe Chelsea became a poison challis. There were undercurrents of replication of previous successes, without considering that the playing staff had changed along with the those in director roles.
He did what he could with the mess he inherited but in the chelsea job you can’t use that as an excuse, you still have to crack on and get wins at the end of the day.
Probably an unpopular opinion- but he was a pretty awful appointment for chelsea. Fair play to him, he saw an opportunity and walked away with his millions, but there's still parts of this interview that remind me just how bad he was as a leader, how many people lose their dream jobs in the real world without millions in compensation, and yet it still takes what? two or three people to help him come to terms with losing his manager position- do me a favour
This literally is 90 minutes of excuses... Even the comment about at the end of the day on your death bed you arent thinking of trophies.. yeah, YOU arent.. because you are happy in mid-table, but Jose Mourinho, Antonio Conte etc sure are thinking about trophies. The ONLY comment I agree with is "there are three categories of managers.... winners, im not in that category", 100% agree, you are not a winner, as evidenced by your continuous self praise about getting Chelsea to the quarter finals of the Champions League... the same Chelsea that had recently won the Champions League. Oh you had to move a family from Sweden to Wales to England.. poor you, how ever did you do that with your multi-million dollar salary... "Brighton training was perfect, everyone wanted to improve", well if Chelsea's training wasnt up to standards, dont you think as the coach that falls under your responsibility?? Also, more self-praise for being "overly-supportive" of the players and wondering how that could ever be a bad thing... well, because if players play horribly week in week out and you constantly tell them they are doing such an amazing job, why the hell would they try to improve? You think Tuchel, Conte, Mourinho, Ancelloti etc were coming out after 4-0 defeats to Brighton and saying "the lads were super positive and gave it their all!", you think its good enough in every press conference to say "we will try to get a positive result"?... You even said in press conferences "losing at home is not good enough" as if to say losing away is completely fine... you are a small club manager, small club mentality, play for wins at home and draws away and if you get beaten who cares, always someone else to blame right? the owners, the injuries, the club not being run the same as Brighton, bad luck, personal stuff off the pitch.. its never your fault.. If you dont want the pressure of having to win trophies, and you want a club happy with you frolicking in mid table or in and around the european places, and you want to praise yourself for that job and call yourself resilient because of "success" you've had in a Swedish league nobody has ever heard of fine... but any big club will chew you up and spit you out, you would get eaten alive if you took the England job, so thank your lucky stars you didnt get offered it or you pussied out, either way. Graham Potter... my least favorite Chelsea manager ever, every single press conference solidified you as a small club manager, i genuinely couldnt believe what i was hearing... Pochettino didnt do amazingly, not by any stretch of the imagination, but he ALWAYS said "Chelsea have to win", simple as that... Chelsea HAVE TO WIN.. and a manager who doesnt care about trophies and just says "i want to leave the club in a better place than i found it" when you found it in the bottom half of the table, will NEVER be Chelsea material.
The biggest problem in the Potter "era" was Potter himself. Yes, the situation at Chelsea was difficult and it still is, but he also did a lot of things wrong. Enzo is a hundred times better coach than him. greetings from Germany 👋🇩🇪
Potter is not an elite manager and his lack of total belief in what he was doing and could achieve was his downfall. The minute this messaging started coming across in press conferences was the beginning of the end for him.
Any Chelsea fan who says Potter did a terrible job hasn't a clue, no coach would have been able to do well with that absolute mess at the time. You give Potter the job start of this season and it would have been a different story, I'm not saying he would be doing as well as Maresca but he would definitely do a good job. He deserves another top job that's actually stable.
@milesenunwaonye4492 Tuchel won the CL under the old ownership. And was sacked shortly into the first season of the new ownership. They never gave him a chance but you can't say he did well with that mess because that mess ramped up in the January window of that season after Tuchel was already gone.
Or that Chelsea experience might just be his breaking point. I genuinely hope he recovers. Cos if he doesn't, he will be frustrated and might retire early.
Truth of the matter , Chelsea has been one of the most difficult job in football for time. Potter was never ready or good enough for the job , despite all the things of the club being in transition making it even more difficult. Enjoy your wages the club is still paying you and wnjoy your life.
Well, he sticks to his principles, which was the main problem at Chelsea. The football philosophy of Potter is extremely negative, as he attacks for ten minutes before defending aresult for 80. There were so many restrictions on the players that it was a misfit from the start. Obviously the owners got poor advice, and Potter should never have been appointed, as it was obvious that he was not adaptable to playing the type of football that is needed at a top club. Potter would be a perfect suit for a club like CP, WH or similar, but I think he might believe it wasnt him but the club that were the problem..
I empathize with Potter but he’s also at fault. He simply had no identity in play - even though player were changing and he did not have the guts to make the hard calls. Players simply did not respect him so there’s that.
He spent his career not managing at the elite level. Brighton was his level. What he deemed as elite coaching, elite coaches see differently. Zidane, Klopp, Carlo, Emry, Artetta and Pep wouldn't be watching his sessions for advice as they would watch other peoples. He doesn't get that.
I've been a Chelsea fan since 2002/03 season and I can say for sure that there's no way anybody can judge Graham as a coach purely on the basis of his extremely challenging time at Chelsea Football Club considering the unprecedented level of change/instability at the club. It was an utterly fraught and complex situationship to begin with under rookie American owners with no prior experience in PL football. Context is always important. Cheers!
I am glad he left Brighton, we have improved since he left and we don't have a manager that says we need a history lesson, after no wins at home for months and few fans boo out of frustration.
He’s not good enough and was never good enough for the Chelsea job, loser during the fixtures and did nothing to save faith, blasting the fans with calls for patience with no good reason for said patience 👋🏻
The revisionism is quite special here. I get there was unprecedented change. But that doesn’t change the fact that Graham potter was not good enough in the time he was given. Take some responsibility
This guy did an ok job at Brighton but won nothing. The 2 Brighton managers after have done equally as good if not better. For some reason he thinks his an elite manager.... newsflash... you aint Potter!
It's Brighton 😂 They aren't known for racking up the silverware. And the managers that followed him benefited greatly from the foundations he helped lay. In his first season he achieved their highest ever points tally, then equalled it the season after, then took them to their highest ever Prem finish.
Buddy you need a reality check, you live in some kind of fantasy. Statically not everyone can win and the main goal especially for teams like Brighton and others who do not have the finance of the big 4 is to remain in the premier league. That itself is a big win. Premier league is the most popular because of the competition from top to bottom and not because of just 3 good teams competing.
@krantio_o I don't know what foreign Indonesian football you're chatting but my team lcfc won the league, FA cup and Community shield with a side of little expense
Chelsea fan for 25 years here. I still rate Potter and was one of the few who wanted him to stay. He had a crazy injury list. Just look what its doing to City. Arsenal had Odegaard away and struggled. Potter had over 15 injuries at one time. More then half was key players. He was set up to fail.
This guy made me stop caring about football. He is the worst premier league manager Chelsea ever had. I still don’t understand how you get rid of a proven winner in Tuchel and go get the Brighton coach… I knew he was never going to make it.
This is a puff piece, designed to build back up his profile. All I’m hearing is excuses. You got paid a lot of money to do a job that you were probably not qualified for and you are still getting paid by them. What a dream!
Completely out of his depth at Chelsea. Terrible at press conferences. Tactically inept. Compare him to Maresca. The confidence oozes from Maresca. Chalk and cheese.
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As a Chelsea fan, I believe Graham Potter was really unlucky during his time at the club. He came in with a completely new squad and no pre-season, which made his job very hard. I think he could do well with another team in the future.
However, his soft approach and the way he handled post-match interviews after bad results were frustrating. It didn't help his case; he needed to be more direct and explain what the real problems were. "The boys did everything" - but if that's the case, why were the performances so poor? It just didn’t add up.
Glad he’s doing well. Looks so much healthier. He will do well at his new job. Like most just need proper structure
In my opinion he left Brighton a little too soon . But who was gonna turn that money down
He really is a great Coach, and honestly would have loved to see him at our sister-club Strasbourg. I am positive that he would do such an amazing job there.
He simply had to take the Chelsea job. More money plus the fact that the opportunity may never happen again. It’s easy in hindsight now to say that he shouldn’t have left Brighton, but almost everyone in the same position would have joined Chelsea
@SilentSzZ Yupp, that is most likely true. For him it was also a good experience to see the difference between a mid-table team and a big team. Expectations and all. I hope to see him soon on the scene. An unlikely scenario, but would be great ... Strasbourg 😅
Of course he looks healthy, he's had £12 million for sitting on his backside.
One of my favourite High Performance pods this, so wholesome. Best wishes to Graham, I’m sure he’ll be back stronger than ever
I think Graham Potter did well to control the controllables at Chelsea, the rest was just an extremely turbulent mess that was completely out of his realm.
The environment he walked into was undeniably chaotic-frequent managerial changes, a bloated squad, and a lack of cohesion at the leadership level. It’s difficult for any coach to succeed when the foundation around them is unstable.
If he is going to take the Leicester job as reported, I wish him good luck. He's a talented coach.
he should go to Leicester
Potter is a very nice bloke and that comes across. What also comes across is that he doesn’t have that self confidence bordering on arrogance needed to be a top manager. You can tell he is a bit all over the place in his mind he’s not assertive like the top managers are. The people interviewing him at Chelsea should have picked up on this.
He was better when he was in a job riding the wave of the Brighton success and being Chelsea manager, not oozing confidence but just normal but I think the sacking has traumatised him and this is a low point for him still. He says he's come to terms with it but he's still very emotionally turbulent.
He seems to be a nurturing type, I can see him developing young players at cash strapped clubs but you're right he doesn't have the personality to handle top players with egos at top clubs.
The owners at the time didn't understand what a top manager is, that's why they sacked a genuinely top manager and replaced him with Potter. They thought the manager was more of a PE teacher/administrator.
he's gotta go to Leicester
Chipping in before it really gets going. As a Chelsea fan who grew up with us being one goal away from division three to my first game at the Bridge in 1984, my Chelsea is one where I’m happy if everyone gives 100% on the training field and on the pitch. Mr Potter was one of those guys. He brought in new ideas then had a flood of new players to deal with and it was one of those instances where I he was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t.
Thank you Graham, I had your back all the way, it was a shame that no one near the top can afford the grace of a squad and a philosophical rebuild season.
Irony being that we’re only just starting to brighten up now.
Cheers,
B
Just finished and my opinion is higher than it was before.
One thing in football that I really want you to see at the top flight is that the fans stop being fans and change into supporters. If Graham had had that support and understanding his first season would have been seen as a success.
Great podcast!
@@BretHigginsGreat comment, Bret. Completely agree with you. Wonderful HP chat where I'm just blown away by Graham's crisp articulation and impactful communication. Happy to see him reflect and unpack his time at Chelsea with so much honesty, openness and clarity. Wishing him and his family best for the future and conveying my cheers to you from Kolkata! 🙏
@@BretHigginsyou're right on the money with regards to the difference between fans and supporters. Fans are often there fanning the flames on social media whenever anything ever so slightly negative occurs, whereas supporters are there supporting the club, whether that be through encouraging the players and defending the club or financially through attending games and buying merchandise.
Yeah he walked into a dumpster fire. I genuinely feel bad for him. His reputation took a real hit.
@@adhiraajray thanks, mate. I think it’s important for everyone to be honest with themselves and Graham does that with aplomb. When he returns to the fold, regardless of what club he goes to, I hope he’s successful and wins a few trophies!
Well done Graham!!! Thank you for your honesty!
20:46 my only issue w potter was that he didn't rule with an iron fist.
Maresca came in and sent those he didn't rate to the gulag, whereas Potter kept everyone around. The easy example was Ziyech. He went from PSG offices into the starting lineup, which was not helpful to the development of Noni and Misha
I don't think that was Potter's fault. Clearly the owners were not experienced and didn't want the coach to have control.
@@boulevard14 It's looking more like the owners were very experienced, They have restructured the club from top to bottom and are looking scary with the amount of young talent they have. Anyone thinking these owners didn't know what they were doing are naive imo.
@haitch04 disagree entirely - hoovering up as much potential as possible because you have the funds to do so isn't being shrewd or having a masterplan - but if you sign that many players you'll invariably get a few hits. The fact is Chelsea could be much further down the line had they kept or bought in some experience to the spine of the team.
@@boulevard14 that has nothing to do with selecting players that clearly had no future at the club
@@haitch04 Several individuals who dealt with the owners have said the same thing, including Potter. That's all we can go off of, I'm afraid.
We are falling in love with Graham now, we rushed to cancel him.
He's a good person.
It's big club mate, winning is the only way and Chelsea had one of the worst season in their history. Sometimes it's not about changing the coach or tactics, you have to bring new energy to the club. And Chelsea is known by changing coaches so often, 2012 and Thomas Tuchel are good examples.
I empathise with Graham and wish him the very best. He obviously is very capable and has high EQ. Unfortunately, he goes against the conventional image that a successful manager (even outside of football) needs to be a dominant, disagreeable person. For that reason, I really hope he succeeds and proves people wrong.
Agree
I am a Liverpool fan. I love the authenticity and openness of the answers from Graham Potter. He was been through the "jaws of sporting death" at Chelsea.
As a Chelsea fan that was desperate to see Graham succeed it is nice to hear his side of the story.
Your fans are mad, sacking Tuchel for Potter was a downgrade
Glad GP is doing well... There is alot of love for him amongst real English football fans not just CFC...
Good man!... good to see what he says about the situation. Hope he is back in the PL soon!.
People talking about this being 90 minutes of excuses don't get the point. The environment you have around is almost as important as your talent/ability at certain jobs, like being a football manager. He could have been better and get better results, for sure, but whoever says "look at Maresca" doesn't understand that in order to get to that point there has been a process. Pochettino didn't get it right at Chelsea until the end, and if you look at the job he did at Tottenham it's hard to argue he isn't good enough for the job. It's just the same at Man Utd, if you think over the last decade every manager and every player are bad... Potter might not have the full package to coach a top 6 team, but let's see his performance at his next job.
100% excuses, he failed big time
@PazLeBon no he didn't, he just bore the brunt of the chaos.
@@antonyjackson8980 didnt focus on the team then did he, they were poor.
@@PazLeBon do you think any manager would have succeded in that situation?
@@urre14 depends what expectations were. to find consistency and a style then sure. tbh think he only won like 4 in 20 at brighton b4 he left so was a strange appointment anyway
I hope Graham reads these comments....my first game was in 1967,and he's a great guy,I think I speak for most Chelsea fans when I wish him all the luck in the future....personally I wish he was still with us....he walked into a very difficult situation,an almost impossible one to be fair. We would be doing even better if he'd been given more time. Good luck mate.
I hope Graham makes the right club choice and I think he can be a very successful coach. The challenges at Chelsea with an oversize squad and an iniexperienced ownership would have probably been beyond any coach.
As a Chelsea fan, I really do wish potter well. He’s a good coach who did really well at Brighton, at Chelsea he was set up to fail imo.
I think he can rebuild his career like Moyes did at West Ham. Maybe he’ll even end up there if their current gaffer is let go during this season?
We wish you all the best in your future endeavors Graham, Chelsea moves..🙏🏾
Always respected Graham Potter. And like he said, he knows the reality of the situation he was/is in. Yet the people that criticize him (even for doing this video) are still too immature to gain any sort of world perspective because they are set in stone in their ways or aren't learners.
Top Man - really wish he could have been successfull for us
like he said , he was the collateral damage .i am glad he is doing better
Thanks for this. As a Chelsea fan I felt from the start he was not the right guy and still dont think he can take a top job. But I like that he has this strong mentality and willing to giv it another go. I would not be that strong mentally.
Hope he comes to Leicester 🦊
lmao me too
He’s a great guy and I believe he would have done really well with Chelsea. Although this interviewer is snidely trying to put the boot into Chelsea at any opportunity. Like a lot of these journalists. but Potter is too clever and I think he knows what he’s doing. Very nice to hear from him, he’s a top person.. hold your head high mate
1:14:57 sneak dissing Enzo Maresca I see you Graham 😂
Graham Potter to West Ham
One of the best episodes, high performance does not mean "win always", it also means that you do not have to be a bitter loser. Potter's love and gratitude towards his parents, family, and people who were part of his journey show him that he was severely misunderstood. I wish the football tribe were kind enough and rather not blind to see that and value that but well.., it is a tribe for a reason.
Sorry Graham really I am, I didn’t think you were competent enough to be Chelsea coach but after listening to this it’s clear you’re more than competent.. wrong place wrong time
Not ruthless enough, and messed around with starting line-ups way too much. He was Tinkerman v2, the first being Ranieri in 2003/04.
My sense is he didn’t believe he could be ruthless enough. It was almost like he was flattered Chelsea would want him. Not the right mentality.
He should manage West Ham. I think he could do something there.
I think west hams a good option. 👌🏼
Messed around with the starting line ups? He had about 50 players 😂
i appreciate him for Enzo Fernandez x Havertz duo 😂
@@lukebrown8580so does Enzo but he doing a good job the truth Potter is overated and not good enough
v over rated i think
I love your line of questioning. Very Smart
I dont know how accurate this, but I read he is still being paid £245,000 a week from Chelsea. The agreement he reached with the club was that they would pay him until he found another job. I like him. He seems like an affable bloke.
Amazing podcast keep up the good work 🤲
Leicester needs you Potter!
Anyone that has had a loss (Big loss) this discussion with Graham Potter. this is a must. It could be the best hour & 20 minutes that you have spent. If you don't play football don't worry too much about what is said (football wise), however it will all fall into place. For having listened you will find that a lot of what has bugged you explainable.
I was run over 01/01/1970, hospitalised 9 month & ended up with a right leg below knee amputation
sorry mate i wish you good health
load of excuses
@@ismaillugumire4540 I only mentioned my condition because I was hoping that by saying "listen to this" those with losses wouldn't think "What dose he know" no for sympathy.
@@PazLeBon You are probably right however if you had been through what Potter went through, what would your defence been?
I have a lot of respect for Potter's approach to management, he takes a long term view and I think that if Chelsea had stood by him by the end of year 2 you'd have seen the upcurve and stability coming through and by the end of year 3 you'd have seen them becoming a force again. Chopping and changing coaches has simply delayed the progress for Chelsea, Potter, Pochettino and now Maresca it's all going in the same direction but it appears that neither Potter or Pochettino were the right fit for the American ownership who don't value the development of the team but rather see the players as financial investments. Ultimately do you want to see players treated as commodities, or do you want them to feel pride to wear the shirt? I simply don't think that the ownership gets it because very very few Americans understand the culture. The exception to the rule are Ryan Reynolds and Rob McIlhenney at Wrexham, because they've taken the time to actually get to know the fans and the place and their investment is as much with their hearts as it is with their wallets. You can see the same things have played out at City, Newcastle, PSG etc When the ownership doesn't care about the fans, its not going to care about players or the management charged with their care and development, because frankly all they see are the $$.
Great interview, sounds like he walked into an environment with no structure and was expected to be an instant alex ferguson type figure that could control all aspects of the football operations overnight, with an new owner that was impulsive and scattergun in approach (probably with lots of other advisors interfering), when all he needed was better support structure around him. I sense he had very little time to consider and took the risk/challenge/salary when offered, fair play to him and no one can doubt that decision and he's clearly better off for the experience. I believe he's a great coach, just needs to pick the next role carefully - I'm sure he will.
you cant be a maneger of a big club without any arrogance just like enzo he is arrogant ruthless you have to have in yourself to be a top coach of a top team you cant be nice
After his performance at Chelsea and now this podcast, I don't see any Prem club employing him.
Might get pelters for this but Graham leaving Brighton was the best thing for that club, others have taken them to a another level that most thought wasn't possible.
Although I do fail to understand Chelsea wanting him when 6 months prior he went on a 3 wins from 23 in the prem and lost about 7 in a row.
spot on
About as informative as it is useful - useless you are
Potter took Brighton to a level nobody though possible before him. Prior to that we were battling relegation and prior to that we weren't even in the Premier League. I'm assuming you don't know much about Brighton.
I agree we've improved since but the mentality and style of play all evolved when Potter came in. Before that we were happy sitting back and playing very defensive football. Potter was a revelation for the club and any proper Brighton fan will say so regardless of the outcome.
Might have been a mentality monster but at times his tactics and game management was appalling.
De Zerbi and now Fabian have changed the culture of the club to one that won't accept being mediocre. Categorically was the best thing that happened to the club Potter leaving.
Never good enough for a massive club like Chelsea , Might he decent at a West Ham or someone like that
Nice guy, who has integrity. Roy Wilbraham
Iconic episode
He is so used to lecturing that he is forgotten how to roll up his sleeves. I hate this guy's attitude of excuses. He doesn't get it. Chelsea is not a Brighton. It is like going to Madrid and telling the fans to believe in a process they cannot see. Enzo Maresca came in and we bought Felix, Jorgensen, KDH, Guiu, Kellyman Torson, Santos, Nkunku has barely played and there are a host of new faces but he has put structure to the team using common senae. Not everyone of those players they brought in at the time had to play. He had to make a team out of the players. He was just dreadful and was trying to normalize mediocrity in an excellent club like ours. I was so excited when they sacked you. What you need to understand is that they way you speak and your body language and mentality are key. You could be or are even a nice guy but football is a hard business and you must make choices that yield results. Nobody cares how long it took you to get anywhere. That is yours to know and protect all the years of work and sacrifices. But don't come to a club that was winning Champions League a year or two and try to install a mid table mindset there. I am highly disappointed that you don't hold yourself accountable more. Not many managers would let that opportunities slip but Graham let it slip and he is still giving excuses. 😅
Good manager, wrong club at the wrong time. The owners let the club down since they came in. Now its 2 years in when things are really improving.
40:00 the death threat are always trolls from India online. Thry do because they ALWAYS get w reaction
There's no doubt Potter was at Chelsea at the wrong time. The new owners were taking a gigantic sweeping brush to the club and whoever had been Coach would have found the job nigh impossible, The owners had a business hat on and football was secondary to the task when restructuring. Graham was the fall guy as it happened, not intentionally I'm sure, but it turned out that way. The fruits of the Owners structural plans are starting to come to bear. Stability is happening with long term contracts, sensible wages and some of the best young talent in world football. Credit where credit's due.
Lets be honest all these managers only lose their ego when things go wrong. They get paid for failure every time, he does come across a genuine man though.
A nice fellow and a good manager, not sure he's cut out for the very top jobs but a good man .. tho it didn't work for him at Chelsea he wasn't particularly disliked by the fan base as a man , pretty sure he'll quick a reasonable welcome when he comes back.
The next Leicester manager surely.
Although i didn’t want him at Chelsea due to lack of success. He is a very good coach he showed it at Brighton, i just feel it was a David Moyes Man UTD situation where it was too big for him. I wish him the best for the future
no way was it harder than the forest job , thats ridiculous. i remember pots looking out of his depth one of his v first interviews there
When they asked him why did you not turn the job down at the time.... Because they offered him 10m a year salery of xourse 😂
I actually believe Chelsea became a poison challis. There were undercurrents of replication of previous successes, without considering that the playing staff had changed along with the those in director roles.
He did what he could with the mess he inherited but in the chelsea job you can’t use that as an excuse, you still have to crack on and get wins at the end of the day.
The Problem with potter is that he has weak mentality
The lads gave everything. 😂
Galadog to the reecue🙏😭
You can tell that by all his waffling about mental health
Love the trainers Jake
never ever buying Huel out of spite.
Probably an unpopular opinion- but he was a pretty awful appointment for chelsea. Fair play to him, he saw an opportunity and walked away with his millions, but there's still parts of this interview that remind me just how bad he was as a leader, how many people lose their dream jobs in the real world without millions in compensation, and yet it still takes what? two or three people to help him come to terms with losing his manager position- do me a favour
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Just let them get the bag, takes 2 second to skip.
They need to pay bills one way to keep production quality high as well as getting quality guests. Atleast you are able to skip through it
How else do you think RUclips channels increase revenue? Social media as a whole is an marketing platform.
How else are they going to tell people about the best way to achieve high performance in drink form?
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This literally is 90 minutes of excuses... Even the comment about at the end of the day on your death bed you arent thinking of trophies.. yeah, YOU arent.. because you are happy in mid-table, but Jose Mourinho, Antonio Conte etc sure are thinking about trophies. The ONLY comment I agree with is "there are three categories of managers.... winners, im not in that category", 100% agree, you are not a winner, as evidenced by your continuous self praise about getting Chelsea to the quarter finals of the Champions League... the same Chelsea that had recently won the Champions League.
Oh you had to move a family from Sweden to Wales to England.. poor you, how ever did you do that with your multi-million dollar salary... "Brighton training was perfect, everyone wanted to improve", well if Chelsea's training wasnt up to standards, dont you think as the coach that falls under your responsibility?? Also, more self-praise for being "overly-supportive" of the players and wondering how that could ever be a bad thing... well, because if players play horribly week in week out and you constantly tell them they are doing such an amazing job, why the hell would they try to improve? You think Tuchel, Conte, Mourinho, Ancelloti etc were coming out after 4-0 defeats to Brighton and saying "the lads were super positive and gave it their all!", you think its good enough in every press conference to say "we will try to get a positive result"?... You even said in press conferences "losing at home is not good enough" as if to say losing away is completely fine... you are a small club manager, small club mentality, play for wins at home and draws away and if you get beaten who cares, always someone else to blame right? the owners, the injuries, the club not being run the same as Brighton, bad luck, personal stuff off the pitch.. its never your fault..
If you dont want the pressure of having to win trophies, and you want a club happy with you frolicking in mid table or in and around the european places, and you want to praise yourself for that job and call yourself resilient because of "success" you've had in a Swedish league nobody has ever heard of fine... but any big club will chew you up and spit you out, you would get eaten alive if you took the England job, so thank your lucky stars you didnt get offered it or you pussied out, either way.
Graham Potter... my least favorite Chelsea manager ever, every single press conference solidified you as a small club manager, i genuinely couldnt believe what i was hearing... Pochettino didnt do amazingly, not by any stretch of the imagination, but he ALWAYS said "Chelsea have to win", simple as that... Chelsea HAVE TO WIN.. and a manager who doesnt care about trophies and just says "i want to leave the club in a better place than i found it" when you found it in the bottom half of the table, will NEVER be Chelsea material.
Spot on!
The biggest problem in the Potter "era" was Potter himself. Yes, the situation at Chelsea was difficult and it still is, but he also did a lot of things wrong. Enzo is a hundred times better coach than him.
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Potter’s arrogance is matched only by his excuses. Listening to him recount his time at Chelsea is like hearing Liz Truss deny tanking the economy!
You can see the difference in attitude between Potter and Maresca that's why Maresca is successful at Chelsea right now
Potter is not an elite manager and his lack of total belief in what he was doing and could achieve was his downfall. The minute this messaging started coming across in press conferences was the beginning of the end for him.
Any Chelsea fan who says Potter did a terrible job hasn't a clue, no coach would have been able to do well with that absolute mess at the time. You give Potter the job start of this season and it would have been a different story, I'm not saying he would be doing as well as Maresca but he would definitely do a good job. He deserves another top job that's actually stable.
Tuchel did
@milesenunwaonye4492 Tuchel won the CL under the old ownership. And was sacked shortly into the first season of the new ownership. They never gave him a chance but you can't say he did well with that mess because that mess ramped up in the January window of that season after Tuchel was already gone.
Potter will be a great manager he already is a good gaffer. Chelsea was abit of a mess when he joined the club.
Or that Chelsea experience might just be his breaking point. I genuinely hope he recovers. Cos if he doesn't, he will be frustrated and might retire early.
He's not a great manager and there is no sign that he ever will be. He's a great waffler, nothing more.
The Chelsea job really damaged Graham! It’s a real shame! I hope he can move on!
Truth of the matter , Chelsea has been one of the most difficult job in football for time. Potter was never ready or good enough for the job , despite all the things of the club being in transition making it even more difficult. Enjoy your wages the club is still paying you and wnjoy your life.
Well, he sticks to his principles, which was the main problem at Chelsea. The football philosophy of Potter is extremely negative, as he attacks for ten minutes before defending aresult for 80. There were so many restrictions on the players that it was a misfit from the start. Obviously the owners got poor advice, and Potter should never have been appointed, as it was obvious that he was not adaptable to playing the type of football that is needed at a top club. Potter would be a perfect suit for a club like CP, WH or similar, but I think he might believe it wasnt him but the club that were the problem..
these chairs are throwing me off lol
Potter would have done better than pochettino had he came in the same window as poch or had a proper pre season but what a done is done
I empathize with Potter but he’s also at fault. He simply had no identity in play - even though player were changing and he did not have the guts to make the hard calls. Players simply did not respect him so there’s that.
Avg coaches/managers makes too many excuses, look at enzo at Chelsea now, he was ruthless and clear identity on how he wants to play.
He spent his career not managing at the elite level. Brighton was his level. What he deemed as elite coaching, elite coaches see differently. Zidane, Klopp, Carlo, Emry, Artetta and Pep wouldn't be watching his sessions for advice as they would watch other peoples. He doesn't get that.
The Chelsea job was too big for him. But best of luck to him, he’s still a good coach, just not a great one.
I've been a Chelsea fan since 2002/03 season and I can say for sure that there's no way anybody can judge Graham as a coach purely on the basis of his extremely challenging time at Chelsea Football Club considering the unprecedented level of change/instability at the club. It was an utterly fraught and complex situationship to begin with under rookie American owners with no prior experience in PL football. Context is always important. Cheers!
I am glad he left Brighton, we have improved since he left and we don't have a manager that says we need a history lesson, after no wins at home for months and few fans boo out of frustration.
And also who doesn't keep saying "a Brighton coach" like he believes that's insulting
@@jonathanmogg3643 it is insulting tbh
He’s not good enough and was never good enough for the Chelsea job, loser during the fixtures and did nothing to save faith, blasting the fans with calls for patience with no good reason for said patience 👋🏻
Should have stayed at Brighton. They are flying this season, pushing Liverpool and city all the way.
The revisionism is quite special here. I get there was unprecedented change. But that doesn’t change the fact that Graham potter was not good enough in the time he was given. Take some responsibility
Counter argument is he’s probably set for life not on the dole
What i learned is the boyz didn't give it everything 😂
Feel for him. He was set for failure. AC milan game was 👍
I don't even remember who this man is. He is among the bad memory I have deleted
Back to Hogwartz Potter
This guy did an ok job at Brighton but won nothing. The 2 Brighton managers after have done equally as good if not better. For some reason he thinks his an elite manager.... newsflash... you aint Potter!
It's Brighton 😂 They aren't known for racking up the silverware. And the managers that followed him benefited greatly from the foundations he helped lay. In his first season he achieved their highest ever points tally, then equalled it the season after, then took them to their highest ever Prem finish.
@antonyjackson8980 ah wow can't wait to tell the boys about Brighton's highest finish trophy they won under Potter
@@BlueArmeh88can’t wait to tell them about all those trophies Brighton got after Potter too
Buddy you need a reality check, you live in some kind of fantasy.
Statically not everyone can win and the main goal especially for teams like Brighton and others who do not have the finance of the big 4 is to remain in the premier league. That itself is a big win.
Premier league is the most popular because of the competition from top to bottom and not because of just 3 good teams competing.
@krantio_o I don't know what foreign Indonesian football you're chatting but my team lcfc won the league, FA cup and Community shield with a side of little expense
Huel umh not so keen
Come to Everton
Chelsea fan for 25 years here. I still rate Potter and was one of the few who wanted him to stay. He had a crazy injury list. Just look what its doing to City. Arsenal had Odegaard away and struggled.
Potter had over 15 injuries at one time. More then half was key players.
He was set up to fail.
Nice guy but doesn’t have the ruthless streak required to manage at the big clubs
I knew it .
He talks a lot of air and doesn’t really say anything worthwhile at the same time, he would be ok working abroad or lower down the leagues.
This guy made me stop caring about football. He is the worst premier league manager Chelsea ever had. I still don’t understand how you get rid of a proven winner in Tuchel and go get the Brighton coach… I knew he was never going to make it.
13 million pay off from Chelsea , life is not so bad
excuses excuses excuses. Given how much he was paid, no reason to mess up this badly.
He's only good enough to manage League 1 or Championship teams.
Coach to RUclips motivational speaker 😂
bruv, go to Leicester!
This is a puff piece, designed to build back up his profile. All I’m hearing is excuses. You got paid a lot of money to do a job that you were probably not qualified for and you are still getting paid by them. What a dream!
in fact what’s he won in the pro
game
Completely out of his depth at Chelsea. Terrible at press conferences. Tactically inept. Compare him to Maresca. The confidence oozes from Maresca. Chalk and cheese.