Graham Potter has disclosed how Chelsea’s poor form before the World Cup break almost ruined his holiday.
Before the break, the London-based club lost four out of their last five matches and these include three consecutive Premier League defeats and a loss to Manchester City in the Carabao Cup.
Addressing reporters after his holiday in California, Potter expressed his gratitude to the club’s ownership for backing him and making him believe in the project ‘even more’ after a meeting in the US with co-owner Behdad Eghbali.
He said;
“I would rather have gone on holiday with a couple of wins behind me, because I probably would have been better company for my poor wife. As it was, I’m staring into the Pacific Ocean, and she’s thinking about what a wonderful time we’re having, and I’m thinking about Chelsea Football Club.
“But thankfully she’s been with me long enough to know that that’s how it is, and then you have to use the pain, the frustration, the disappointment of the last few weeks to say ‘OK, how can we go forward?’ And then, like anything, a bit of distance gives you that time, a bit of perspective, and then it’s about how you can start the process of integrating all the players back and taking the learning of that time and saying ‘OK, we need to show some direction here’.”
