The Athletic’s roundup of the weekend’s action mentions Graham Potter. It says that the Chelsea boss is safe, despite picking up another poor result at the weekend.
It’s been a bad few months for him, and the fans are on the fence at best, but the board continue to back him.
One interesting to note in the article is that how their sources claim that “the success of Mikel Arteta at Arsenal with a young squad after a mixed start is also seen as reassuring.”
So the fact that Arteta managed to turn things round impressively after a dodgy start is clearly counting heavily in Potter’s favour, and there is some logic to that. Most of us had written Arteta off, and we are now eating humble pie as the Spaniard sits on top of the league.
His example shouldn’t mean that all coaches get years to implement their ideas, however.