Graham Potter’s Chelsea file in comparison with each sacked Premier League supervisor

Graham Potter has been described as a ‘sluggish burner’ of a coach who will impact change however solely after a interval of gamers adjusting to his strategies.

That was actually the case at Brighton, though time is a luxurious solely loved by the mid-table golf equipment in the case of the Premier League.

Chelsea, in the meantime, appear to treat Potter as their ‘challenge’ supervisor. Thomas Tuchel was sacked for allegedly not sharing the imaginative and prescient of proprietor Todd Boehly, no matter that may have been. A relentless quest to signal each participant underneath the solar to an eight-year contract or one thing, presumably.

The Blues homeowners are stated to have been impressed by Mikel Arteta at Arsenal, who was given the time wanted to rebuild the falling Gunners. That’s the official line, a minimum of.

Unofficially, after all, Chelsea have been sounding out different potential coaches, together with Mauricio Pochettino, which 90min revealed this week.

However how precarious is the state of affairs for Potter? Eight head coaches have already been sacked within the Premier League this season, so how does his Chelsea file examine to theirs?

The plain caveat right here is that, Potter’s predecessor Tuchel apart, everybody who has been sacked within the Premier League up to now this season have achieved so as a result of relegation fears.

Chelsea have a lot loftier expectations than mere survival – so the bar for fulfillment is way greater too – and the actual fact Potter is even in the identical ballpark because the sacked Premier League managers this season is testomony to his failure up to now.

And he’s very a lot in that ballpark as nicely. He’s acting at a comparable degree, that’s to say with a win-percentage of sub-30%.

* Statistics correct as of 21/02/23

Successful shouldn’t be all the pieces, after all. It’s all about factors within the Premier League and attracts are essential as nicely.

For golf equipment preventing relegation, a points-per-game of 1.00 is the magic quantity as the times of needing 40 factors to outlive are a usually a factor of the previous.

Once more, Chelsea needs to be nowhere close to that. For context, Liverpool, who’re in eighth place and are extensively thought of to be having an unacceptably poor season, are chugging alongside at 1.52ppg this season.

That’s corresponding to what West Ham did final season and is usually round 15 factors in need of the highest 4 tempo (1.85ppg approx.) that Chelsea needs to be focusing on.

Once more, Potter is much too near the relegation battlers by way of points-per-game right here, which asks the plain query of how lengthy Chelsea can persist right here.

Chelsea have been in sixth place within the desk when Potter took over from Thomas Tuchel, though the season was solely six video games previous.

At the moment, Potter needed to step down the league desk from fourth positioned Brighton to take over at Stamford Bridge.

We are going to in all probability solely get a real sense of how he’s performing by taking a look at a Premier League desk from the day he arrived, and it’s grim studying for Chelsea followers.

So, to place it into context, since Graham Potter was appointed at Chelsea, they’ve solely been 4 factors higher than Everton within the Premier League. Not fairly studying for a staff who’ve spent an extradordinary amount of cash on new gamers…