Chelsea FC: Potter feels no pressure – No transfers in winter

Five league games without a win

Chelsea went five games in a row in the Premier League before the World Cup break, on Tuesday the Blues, who had slipped to 8th place before Boxing Day, will face Bournemouth (from 6:30 p.m. in the TM live ticker). Despite the recent negative series, coach Graham Potter, who took over the position on the sidelines from Thomas Tuchel in September, confirmed that he was sure of the backing of the club management – the 47-year-old now refrains from making improvements on the winter transfer market.

No club in the world had invested more money in new players in the summer than the Londoners. 282 million euros for 8 additions, including calibers like Wesley Fofana, Raheem Sterling or Marc Cucurella, were booked for the third place last year. Potter, who always spent winter money for new players in Brighton during his tenure between 2019 and 2022, now wants to bake smaller rolls after the club’s record summer.

“I would say that historically, the January window is not the easiest to find solutions,” the TV station quoted as saying.Sky Sports“ the trainer. “From my point of view, the summer was an extreme time and I do not want to take drastic measures against this background”. In his eyes, the third most valuable squad in the Premier League behind Liverpool and Manchester City “didn’t work as well as I would like it to,” but he still has confidence in the quality of his team. “The job of a head coach is to concentrate on those who are here and to make them better,” explained the Englishman and at the same time attested his players “definitely room for improvement”.

Surprisingly for many, Potter succeeded the ousted Tuchel in September, who had led Chelsea to victory in the Champions League for the second time in the club’s history in 2021. According to the new owner Todd Boehly, the trainer’s style of play was too result-oriented and too little “show-heavy”. At the time of the sacking, the Blues were sixth in the Premier League table, having won three of the following eight games under Graham Potter.

Despite the “results crisis” in the league, Potter is not afraid of his reputation with the club bosses. On the contrary, discussions with co-owner Behdad Eghbali during the World Cup break made him “even more confident”, the English newspaper quoted him as saying “Times‘ on Boxing Day: ‘I’m even more confident and aware of the support I have now than when I took the job three months ago’. He is “very much looking forward to the coming weeks and months and years.” The management of the club from Stamford Bridge knows just like him “where we are at the moment” and about “the challenges that lie ahead of us”.

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