Chelsea boss Graham Potter is under pressure but has the support of at least one of the owners. Chelsea, who are 10th in the Premier League table and 14 points behind fourth-placed Tottenham, have won just once in their past 11 matches in all competitions, scoring four goals in that period, and have not won an away match since October 16. The Blues’ defeat at Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday increased scrutiny on Potter’s position at Stamford Bridge, but the feeling is that changing managers now would be a step backward, not forward, for the club, especially given the investment made in new players and the formation of a new structure around the head coach.
Chelsea has spent more than £600 million on 19 new players since the introduction of new Todd Boehly-Clearlake Capital ownership, including Argentina midfielder Enzo Fernandez for a British transfer record sum of £106.8 million. But, outcomes have not improved for Potter, who left Brighton last September to join Chelsea on a five-year contract. He has now won just nine of his 26 Premier League matches as Chelsea manager since being hired from Brighton in September, and their defeat in north London extends their Premier League winless streak to 22 years.
They were also defeated 1-0 in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie against Borussia Dortmund, after being eliminated in the third round of both the FA Cup and the Carabao Cup by Manchester City.
“Chelsea is disappointed with the results. I fully assume responsibility for those outcomes. I feel the boys gave it their all; it’s just that scoring changes the game’s complexion, which made things difficult for us. You can’t rely on help indefinitely if the results aren’t good enough, which they aren’t right now,” Chelsea boss Graham Potter said. “There is always that question, and you can’t stop the questions, and as long as the outcomes are what they are, I accept it – it’s part of the job. That’s just the way football works, and I recognise I haven’t done enough at this club to earn too much faith. My job is to keep that from happening.”
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