Todd Boehly and co. want Graham Potter to be a long-term appointment, but a legacy relies on success and success at Chelsea means trophies. willfordy25
is perhaps Chelsea’s most exciting managerial appointment this century. Every permanent boss signed in Roman Abramovich’s reign, other than club legends Frank Lampard and Roberto Di Matteo, had won a league title before arriving at Stamford Bridge; most of them had won far more than that. Potter’s only engraved success is the Swedish Cup with Ostersunds, an achievement – in status terms – dwarfed by those to have preceded him at Chelsea.
after Potter was announced as the new boss, with a report claiming he and fellow owner Behdad Eghbali are ‘understood to regard the upwardly-mobile coach Potter as a risk taker, innovator and master communicator, in the mould of a blue-chip company chief executive’. However, commendable though their desire for managerial longevity is, you can’t appoint a legacy boss – it doesn’t work like that. Every club, even Chelsea, hires a manager in the hope that person will lead them to glory for many years to come. And although some clubs are more hair-triggered than others, those that retain managers for long periods do so for one of two reasons: either they can’t afford to sack them or they are being successful according to the metrics the club decides.