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I think a total squad overhaul is a good idea, but after the clownshow from last summer I wouldn't be to confident about the owners pulling it off to strenghten the squad without totally overpaying and offering disproportionately high contracts, blowing up our wage structure even more than it already is. I mean for example if the rumors are true that the club is ready to offer Kanté a new three year deal for the same wages he is on from a contract he signed in 2018 when he was one of the best players in his position and a fresh WC winner, while he will be 32 years old at the end of the season with having missed minimum half a year through injury, to me that is clearly an argument against them knowing what they're doing. No disrespect to Kanté but commiting huge wages to an incredibly injury prone player in his thirties would be madness. The fact that the club regressed that much (Tuchel overperformance aside) in the last years imo is mostly based on the lack of financial principles and bad decisions on the transfer market. I really hope with the new 'transfer specialists' in charge that there will be a significant improvement in that regard.

I won't deny him underperforming, but I think everybody should be able to understand that the problems at this club go above his head too, so I kinda fail to understand the toxicity from parts of the fanbase towards him. I mean if you support the club, then why would you want it to practically burn about 100mio, which it would mean if the owners sack him now, before the club has any chance profiting from signing him at all. Yes, the current form statistics are really bad and there is a clear negative momentum which we all can see, which he has to find solutions for to stop and to get results, but I don't see him as the culprit for the current crisis, so as long as we aren't in clear danger of relegation in this constellation, I don't think it makes strategically sense to sack him, pay him off and sign another manager just to end up midtable or even in the bottom half of the table anyway.

I voted for 'No, he should be given more time', because of some of the reasons already stated in this topic. Some of the criticism towards him I agree with also, but I disagree with the mindset of the people who want him to get sacked in this situation. I mean guys how about having some realistic expectations about the clubs situation, just because performance and resultswise Potter so far is a downgrade on Tuchel, there is no reason to think that Potter can have no positive effect on the club in the longterm. With the owners having a longterm strategy which should suit Potter's profile, how would it be beneficial to the club if he gets sacked, because of a results crisis which is clearly influenced by an injury crisis, players underperforming and a squad quality problem? Even if Potter has underperformed in some matches and probably will do so with this squad until the end of the season, I would still prefer if the owners back him and have a proper plan which they follow than act in a volatile manner.

Was my sentence grammatically wrong? I meant it like this 'Based on the lack of progression in our performances(under Potter), I see no indication that Tuchel was the problem for the bad performances (under himself) and no indication that Potter is better suited to managing this group of players than Tuchel was either.' Sorry I made a mistake, goodnight.

I am in the pro Potter camp but I answered with 'no', because objectively at this point in time there seems to be no progression in our performances which would indicate that Tuchel was 'the problem' or that Potter is better suited to manage this group of players.

I have to disagree with you on this post, I see it contrary. We signed him to be our main man in offense, this is definitely what the wages we pay him indicate, so with that comes a natural expectation that he performs to a certain standard, which in the majority of matches he doesn't do. He just seems to be coasting through matches, he isn't the only one, but he is the topearner of the squad and the player with the most playing time for us so far this season and he is offering very little on the pitch, but somehow you have the opinion that he is unfairly critized for his noshows, are you his agent or something? Based on the sample size of his performances until now, everyone should agree that the club made a massive misjudgement with signing him and putting him on a 17m annually contract for 5 years. Just 4 months into his contract and the club has to make plans about finding a way to shift him already and the worst thing about it is that it was predictable that this would happen. Like somebody else already said 'He is just this seasons Lukaku.'

I called the stupidity of this transfer out before it happened and so far in the majority of the matches he hasn't looked like an upgrade on Werner or Pulisic at all imo. He had a good start scoringwise, but since the national team break in September his performances are really poor and he looks like a player who is declining in ability as well, what were concerns about him on here too before we signed him. If you take into account the details of this transfer he definitely has the potential to be one of our worst transfers in club history. I hope that we move him on next summer, because the value for money just isn't there like with Werner, but this is probably easier said than done with his grotesque contract. And like @axman2526 I sense from his demeanor too, that he is someone with an overinflated ego.

I find some of the critics he gets on here extremely harsh, I mean he loses for the first time at the tenth match into his tenure against a team which he build for the past three years and people call for him to be sacked. Why? Because he isn't Tuchel? Because he tinkers a lot? Or is it just sarcasm? It is clear that the mismanagement at this club predates Potters tenure here by far and you can see that he is a good manager, therefore I fail to understand the thought process around the negative opinions about him. What are these based on? He got an unbalanced squad six matches into the season shortly after the transfer window closed to work with, was hired as a longterm manager and his career resume to date indicates that he is a builder type of manager, but some people want him gone already because he experiments with the squad and this leads to some underperformances, please guys have some patience. Based on his profile the only way signing him in the first place makes sense, is if you give him time to build, even if it means underperformance (missing out on the CL next season) in the short term, so it's highly likely that the owners have calculated that in the decision to sign him as manager, if they have a data driven approach. I really would like to know, who the people that think his tenure here will be a failure, want to have as the manager, or explain why they disapprove him that much after not even two month of him being in charge of the team.

@Term_X I agree you have to give Napoli praise for the way they made business on the market this summer. They sold their topearner(Koulibaly) and let their other two topearners(Insigne, Mertens) plus the majority of their older players leave for free, replaced them effectively via good scouting, made a small profit on the market, lowered the cost of their squad significantly and improved as a team, kudos to them.

The youth league match against Salzburg is shown on the Chelsea homepage.

His contract at Brighton expires next summer, if Potter wants him and we can get him on a free, why not? He isn't a bad player and has played over a hundred matches for Potter, so knows his system. If he would accept moderate wages, a medium length contract and a role as a squad player, it could be worth a try.

It definitely comes from the wish of the media for an english elite manager, so it shouldn't be surprising that the media are happy when an english manager gets appointed at one of the top clubs. I can understand the appeal an english manager at a top club has to the media while no english manager has won the Premier League or the Champions League and I don't see a problem that it's this way either, I mean that the media perceives him positively. Hopefully he can change the fact that no english manager has won both of the big titles in his time here, if it isn't to much to ask of him.

The reports or media speculations out there indicate that Tuchel wasn't sacked because of our performances on the pitch, definitely not solely, but because the owners assessed him deficiencies in corporate aspects of his job, which they seem to judged that unsuited to the way they want to run the club, that they decided to sack him and the fact that they hired in Potter a manager with a similar style of football, imo emphasizes that. Of course that is speculation and it is a bold move to sack a top manager because of off pitch issues, but if they analyzed data which indicate that Potter can offer a similar system to Tuchel and an improvement on the current performances under Tuchel, plus they assess Potter to have more of a company man personality, thus is more suited to be in line with the way they want to run the club than I can understand why they made this decision, even if it's ungrateful and apaphetic towards Tuchel. Just because Potter isn't proven at the top level yet doesn't mean that he is a massive downgrade on Tuchel either, if he turns out to be a good fit for us, the club should be fine and that's what matters.

I would've liked Tuchel to stay, but simultaneously approve the fact that we have given a chance to a highly rated english manager to prove himself at top level. The fact that the owners payed his release clause and signed Potter on a five year contract should mean that they are totally convinced by him and and hopefully back him even through periods of underperformance when they occur. Even if it isn't Tuchel, I still would like us to try a longterm manager approach and profilewise Potter should be suited for that and on paper his playing system should fit our squad too, so I'm quite positive with this appointment.

I voted for Potter, because I think of the named Managers in this poll, he is by far the most interesting profilewise and the other 3 have clear red flags imo, plus he will be our new manager so I don't want to jinx him via voting for another option.