Chelsea reporter Nizaar Kinsella believes the club’s owners will be feeling a bit embarrassed by their decision to sack head coach Graham Potter.
Potter was dismissed on Sunday after just seven months in the job with the team sitting in the bottom half of the Premier League.
Owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali had planned to stick with Potter for the long-term but have opted to change course following a dismal run of results.
And the Evening Standard’s football correspondent Kinsella believes that although the decision is understandable, it will leave the owners feeling red faced.
“The underlying quality wasn’t there, the coaching wasn’t bringing together any discernible pattern of play,” he told Hayters TV.
“The work on the training field wasn’t heralding results. Chelsea had drawn with Everton and lost to Aston Villa so it was like, look, we can’t have another run like that (before beating Leeds).
“If we have another run like that, how low down the table will we be? We’ve barely got any of the season left to salvage so let’s at least try something and look for someone else who might be better suited for the job.
“These owners have been around it and have seen what’s going on up close and personal.
“They wanted Potter to succeed and I think it’s a bit embarrassing for them now that he’s been sacked because they’ve been saying that they wanted a long-term project and now they’re back to square one.
“But maybe it was about swallowing your pride and doing the right thing and I think that’s the way most Chelsea fans feel right now.
“I think they would maybe argue that they stuck with Graham Potter for quite a while to wait for him to turn it around.
“By the end he was getting booed and getting chanted at with ‘you’re getting sacked in the morning’ by his own fans.
“I think the owners would argue that but at the same time, you hire Graham Potter, he’s a project manager, he’s a club building manager, he’s proven it certainly in two of his three jobs at Ostersunds and Brighton which is why Chelsea hired him.
“And they’ve not given him that time that we all know he needs to do a good job. I think it was just a case of it’s too bad in the short term that they couldn’t overlook it.”
