Balancing egos, being ruthless and proving himself to elite players - Potter's challenge at Chelsea

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Balancing egos, being ruthless and proving himself to elite players - Potter's challenge at Chelsea
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There's Brighton and Hove Albion. And then there's CHELSEA. Graham Potter has landed one of the biggest jobs in world football. Now, it's up to him to deal with a shifted power dynamic and big egos to deliver silverware to Stamford Bridge.

. Moyes knew he had to assert his own authority and had already decided to move out Ginola.

“It was twenty to three, I’d gone over all the preparation and the dressing room went quiet,” Moyes recalled some years later. “Then you heard, ‘Yooouu fucking blue boys! Yooouu better get IN THERE!’. Big Dunc was on his feet, getting in every single player’s face, screaming in the roughest Scottish accent.

Memo to Potter: maybe avoid reminding Chelsea’s players that you aren’t used to winning matches at their level. He has known Potter since their own version of University Challenge. Potter was head of football at Leeds Metropolitan University. Burchnall had a similar role at Leeds University that he combined with coaching in Bradford City’s academy.

And the key question: can he handle the dressing-room dynamic at a club that would have formed part of the European Super League?

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