Potter sacked by Chelsea for being ‘too decent’

Graham Potter is right not to ‘indulge in performative anger’ but it also proves the Chelsea job is just too nasty for him and the experts want him gone.

Potter than hell
With tinkering but clearly not Leeds-bound Graham Potter on the brink at Chelsea, the Daily Mirror website is hosting the ‘BIG DEBATE: Should Chelsea owner Todd Boehly SACK Graham Potter?’.

It really is about time that ‘experts have their say on the big question at Stamford Bridge’. They have been silenced for far too long.

Mind you, going by the input of David Maddock, you can see why:

‘I’d turn the question around though. Should Potter resign? Given the qualities mentioned above, maybe he has to face a serious decision of whether the club is right for him. He’s clearly a fine coach, and perhaps he’s wasting his time at a club which has never given managers time…or respect.’

For a start, Chelsea might have ‘never given managers time’ but Todd Boehly clearly intends to give Potter time. That much is not really up for debate, BIG or otherwise.

But that is excellent. It’s not a case of whether Potter should be sacked but whether he might resign. From comfortably the biggest job of his entire coaching career. Thus essentially accepting and declaring it is beyond him. And torching his future as a manager at this level in the process.

Shall we move on to the other ‘experts’, such as Ben Husband?

‘It’s not just that results are bad, Potter is stumbling into the very same issues he encountered at Brighton. Nice, but ultimately toothless football.’

‘Stumbling into the very same issues he encountered’ and subsequently sorted at Brighton when given time and patience, you might say.

And then there’s Neil McLeman:

‘Finishing outside the top seven this season would prove the job is too big for him.’

Just like it did when Jurgen Klopp and Mikel Arteta finished eighth with Liverpool and Arsenal?

Anger management
‘I ADMIRED Graham Potter’s answer to an excellent question from my colleague Andrew Dillon last week, about whether he has ever got angry,’ writes Dave Kidd in The Sun, setting the bar incredibly low for ‘excellent questions’: Dillon asked Potter what makes him angry, what has made him angry “in the past year or so” and “does anything make you angry?”, because he is a child psychologist trying to interpret a worrying drawing from school, not a middle-aged man talking to a 47-year-old.

‘Potter said he felt a…