Tactics and Transfers: Career Risk and Investing in Graham Potter

Football statistics simply aren’t a perfect system and though some are relevant there’s no way to measure the magic of football and the new ownership group will have to accept that.

They’re going to have to hope this new dream team of recruitment and technical professionals makes the right call with the next manager because this is now a very painfully important decision. Potter was in all fairness hired long before they were and so it would make sense that there was a little discomfort around the camp about that.

This next decision will go a long way towards deciding whether or not this Chelsea rebuild is going to be immediate or if it is going to be a 3-5 year plan and let’s face it we all know which one of those is acceptable to the Blues.

Chelsea felt that though they invested a lot in Graham Potter to protect their greater investment in Chelsea Football Club a move needed to be made. What they’ll do to follow that I truly couldn’t tell you.

Next week I will name a few managers that I think are worthwhile for Chelsea to consider. A few shocks and a few obvious ones.

As of now though a man and his young family have moved homes and unsettled their lives, though I acknowledge with a great financial benefit, only to have them completely turned upside down and it feels rude not to let them breathe.

What an unbelievable mess this seems to be at the moment. Graham Potter should have been given more time but the decision not to afford it to him makes sense. I can’t help but think at least some consistency around the training ground before necessary matches against Liverpool, Wolves and Real Madrid in 10 whole days total would have been useful. If Chelsea loses all three then this is a true unmitigated disaster and they could have just limped home.

How this makes Chelsea better for Real Madrid I don’t know but then at the same time it is also only the Blues whose reputation for madness is so closely aligned with genius that even they don’t know the difference among the European giants. The Blues have never won a Champions League without first firing a manager, so food for thought or as I like to say brain cake there.

At least CFC is never boring but I have to admit this routine is a little tiring.