The board makes a good decision by undoing its self-evidently appalling decision to appoint him in the first place
This total is made up of a £21m release fee to Brighton, a £13m payoff for Champions League winner Thomas Tuchel and something similar for Potter now . To this must be added the cost of missing out on the Champions League and the procurement of another manager. Add in £550m spent on a laughably random assortment of players, almost all of whom have already depreciated because everyone looks bad in this light.
At the very least the Chelsea board has finally made a good decision, albeit that decision is to undo its own self-evidently appalling decision. It was painfully obvious from the start that Potter was not the right fit.
Here, at a club that demands swagger, panache and a little bit of nastiness from its managers, was a coach who looks like he’d say sorry if you stole his watch, who at one point had to defend himself from claims he didn’t become angry enough in a press conference while defending himself for not having become angry enough during a game.
Todd Boehly has spent £550m on players since taking over last summer and is now looking for his third manager of the season.
This is not to suggest that Potter hasn’t made mistakes or poor in-game decisions or shown limitations at this stage in his career. In the end the job is to make this work. But the contrast between what he had done before and what he was asked to do at Chelsea was vast. Not only did Potter arrive with no experience at this level, he found himself confronted with an utterly nuts version of what this level was supposed it be in the first place.
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