Graham Potter is in trouble for trying to pick a team to win games for Chelsea so could be available to take a job with Leeds, who are only big in England. What a load of bollocks.
Tinker, tailor, soldier, why?
‘Potter is the new Tinkerman and Chelsea fans hate it’ is the headline on the Daily Telegraph.
Pretty sure that Chelsea fans hate losing and being mid-table, fellas. But Jim White has a theme and he is warming to it…
‘Worse, the manager appears not to know, in among his vast squad, the identity of his best team. Every match the changes are wholesale. Of his many predecessors the man he most resembles is Claudio Ranieri. This is the modern day Tinkerman.’
You know when the changes weren’t ‘wholesale’? When results were better. It’s almost like Potter is searching for his best team because the ones he is picking turn out to be sh*t.
After beating Crystal Palace last month, he then made a grand total of ONE change for the clash with Liverpool.
After drawing 0-0 with Liverpool, he then made a ‘wholesale’ THREE changes to bring in the now-fit Reece James and include some of his very expensive January signings.
As results have got worse and fixtures have become more frequent, he has made more changes. That’s what managers do when things are going badly. And they really are going badly.
‘Against Southampton, he was asked why Reece James, Thiago Silva, Ruben Loftus Cheek, Hakim Ziyech and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang were watching from the stands, not even from the bench.
‘“No injuries,” Potter explained. “More just the turnaround and demand of the games. It was a case of managing the load and managing the squad.”‘
Shall we take those one by one?
Reece James had played three times in less than two weeks after pretty much three months off with a knee injury.
Thiago Silva is 38.
Ruben Loftus-Cheek has played twice this week already – his first football since the World Cup.
Hakim Ziyech has claimed no goals and one Premier League assist all season.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has not been in a match-day squad since January.
‘Yet, with James in particular, the question is: what was he being managed for? Surely if you have the best right back in the country available, you play him? For the newly signed players, the constant churn means they are unable to form proper partnerships. The endless succession of right wingers in particular would surely benefit from having James behind them.’
Maybe he is being managed for the…
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