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James OlleySenior Writer, ESPN FC
Graham Potter said helium is acceptable for the other scrutiny and unit astatine Chelsea by insisting "if I wanted a bully casual life, I could person rather easy stayed moving astatine Brighton."
Potter replaced Thomas Tuchel arsenic caput manager successful September and oversaw a promising commencement earlier successive Premier League defeats to Brighton and Arsenal near Chelsea 13 points adrift of apical spot.
Chelsea present look a daunting Carabao Cup 3rd circular travel to Manchester City earlier their last outing earlier the World Cup interruption astatine high-flying Newcastle United.
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Habitually, Chelsea managers person rapidly travel nether unit pursuing a tally of mediocre results but caller co-owners Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital person been keen to accent a semipermanent imaginativeness with Potter astatine the helm.
Asked astir the moving situation astatine Stamford Bridge, Potter said connected Tuesday: "I would accidental it is simply a small spot unfair to measure Chelsea present due to the fact that the alteration of ownership has happened. We are connected a caller direction, a caller way and yet that is portion of the challenge.
"If I wanted a bully casual life, I could person rather easy stayed moving astatine Brighton successful the Premier League and signed a caller declaration and been perfectly OK.
"And I wouldn't person had excessively galore questions astir myself oregon unit oregon sacking oregon thing similar that, but the crushed to travel here, 1 of the reasons to travel present arsenic determination were many, it's a fantastic shot club, perchance 1 of the champion successful the satellite that tin vie for immoderate large trophy.
"We each cognize we are not astatine that constituent present and we haven't been for 2 oregon 3 years is the world if you look astatine the league array and the points quality betwixt the apical two. So, OK, however bash you get there? That's hard work, symptom and suffering and moving guardant it is learning and processing and that's wherefore we're here."
Potter besides discussed 1 facet of the conundrum created by a mid-season World Cup -- the accidental for the winners to celebrate. The World Cup Final takes spot connected Dec. 18 with Carabao Cup 4th circular matches owed to provisionally instrumentality spot conscionable 3 days aboriginal earlier the Premier League resumes connected Boxing Day.
"Honestly it is hard for maine to beryllium present and cognize what the information for different quality being volition beryllium aft thing similar the World Cup," Potter said.
"Of people it depends if you triumph it. I don't adjacent cognize but tin they adjacent observe successful their ain state aft they triumph the World Cup? I don't know, I'm asking you guys! [Brazil] triumph the World Cup and you can't adjacent spell backmost to Brazil! What's it travel to if they can't?
"I could [be selfish and accidental 'come back']. That's the situation of having a World Cup successful the mediate [of the season] due to the fact that the alternate is saying 'don't spell observe the World Cup by the way, you travel backmost present and train.'
"Even past it's truthful hard due to the fact that they volition person played a crippled connected immoderate time it is and past they person to retrieve emotionally. How agelong does it instrumentality to retrieve from a World Cup final? I mean astir radical I ideate celebrating for two, 3 weeks, unfastened apical buses everyplace and past they request a two-three week vacation to get implicit that celebration!
"Obviously we are English truthful it's been a agelong clip since we knew astir that. Who is going to beryllium successful the final? Hopefully England from our perspective, but you ne'er know. And past connected that point, what if you've mislaid the World Cup Final? How agelong does it instrumentality to get implicit that? Probably not 3 oregon 4 days."
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