London, April 2 (BNA): Chelsea ran out of patience with Graham Potter Sunday, sacking the England manager with the club trailing in the middle of the Premier League standings despite a spending spree on new players totaling $630m in their last two matches. Transfer windows.
The team announced Potter’s departure a day after losing 2-0 to Aston Villa, which left Chelsea in 11th place, and nearly seven months after they gambled on him as a replacement for the dismissed Thomas Tuchel.
Potter was brought in on a five-year deal despite his lack of coaching experience at football’s biggest clubs in a somewhat ambiguous coaching spell, the only trophy he won was the Swedish Cup in 2017 and he failed to get the best out of it. Expensive band combo.
Chelsea have won just seven of their 22 Premier League matches under Potter and are 12 points off the top four, meaning the team is unlikely to qualify for the Champions League next season, according to the Associated Press.
Chelsea lost to Manchester City in each of the two domestic cup competitions, but reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League, where they tied against defending champions Real Madrid with the first leg on April 12.
Bruno Saltor, a member of Potter’s coaching staff, will take charge of Chelsea on an interim basis. Chelsea’s next match will be against Liverpool on Tuesday.
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