Losing parents like 'fixing a plane in the air'

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Graham Potter said losing his parents during the Covid-19 pandemic portion managing Brighton successful the Premier League was similar "fixing a level successful the air" arsenic helium spoke astir managing intelligence health.

The 47-year-old, who is present Chelsea manager, was successful the aboriginal stages of his vocation astatine Brighton astatine the time.

He said helium had to equilibrium "powerful and raw" emotions with his occupation arsenic manager.

"You're going 'OK, americium I getting angry, disappointed oregon frustrated oregon immoderate due to the fact that of this oregon due to the fact that of this?'"

And erstwhile asked if the intelligence wellness of managers needs to beryllium spoken astir more, helium replied: "We are portion of a athletics wherever we make pressure.

"Somebody has to beryllium nether pressure, immoderate it is and it volition beryllium 1 aft the other, aft the other, aft the other.

"Then one's gone and it is connected to the next, it was Steven Gerrard a fewer weeks agone and past it volition beryllium idiosyncratic other and past idiosyncratic else."

Potter eyes benignant & substance connected Brighton return

So acold this play 4 Premier League managers person been sacked and arsenic of Gerrard's exit from Aston Villa earlier this month, the average tenure for a top-flight manager stands astatine 2 years and 4 days.

Potter, who replaced Thomas Tuchel astatine Stamford Bridge and takes his Chelsea broadside to Amex Stadium to instrumentality connected Brighton astatine 15:00 BST connected Saturday., says it is unhelpful to comparison managers.

"[The media] privation to comparison with the erstwhile feline truthful determination is ever that going on, which isn't large for the intelligence health," helium said.

"It is hard successful the satellite that we are surviving successful to consciousness atrocious for a Premier League manager, get maine right, but intelligence wellness doesn't truly discriminate with your presumption oregon however overmuch wealth you gain either.

"It is conscionable thing to beryllium alert of, it is simply a situation and I deliberation we each person to beryllium mindful of that.

"You person to recognize you bash the occupation and determination are things retired of your power that you person to negociate and woody with.

"Sometimes you person to endure and you person to acquisition symptom on the mode and evidently the higher you are successful the Premier League the much sound determination is."

The challenges of coaching tin besides widen to the manager's family, arsenic Potter describes his experiences of moving to Sweden to negociate Ostersunds FK from 2011-18.

"When you determination to Sweden successful the bluish portion of the state and it's -20C extracurricular successful the wintertime and your woman has near everything that she knew, she is determination with an 11-month-old kid, crying, due to the fact that she misses her household and her job, past you benignant of think, I person got to marque this work," helium said.

"You propulsion yourself into it and possibly it becomes a spot of a habit, I don't know. It's difficult, you person to enactment hard if you privation to execute anything. You person to enactment hard."

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