Football is fickle and Graham Potter may never get this chance again. He absolutely should jump into the 'snake pit' at Chelsea.
Danny Mills was not alone in suggesting that Graham Potter should turn down Chelsea; variations of ‘he’d be mad to go there’ reverberated around the football media. He called Chelsea a “little bit of a snake pit” and said that the Brighton boss should be “very wary” and. Nobody deserves that.
Having led Brighton to a top-half finish and started this season in phenomenal form despite the sale of two key players, Potter’s stock has never been higher. The next time a Big Six job becomes available – in six weeks or six months or two years – he might be knee-deep in a five-game winless run and no longer be coveted by ambitious owners. Just ask Brendan Rodgers about how fickle football can be.
There will always be those who say he could stay at Brighton and ‘build’ something, but he has literally already done that. He has entirely changed the ambitions of a small club, taking a team full of relegation battlers playing boring, survivors’ football and creating an expansive top-half side full of players coveted by those above them in the food chain.
Could he go to Chelsea, fail to harness egos and end up being sacked himself in a matter of months? Of course he could . But should that happen, Potter will still have a reputation for being an excellent coach who can mould a smaller club into something wonderful; he will not be without work for long. If Potter really is Moyes in this scenario then his version of West Ham will always be waiting.
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