The EMBARRASSING treatment of Chelsea players under Potter

Tom Weber

• Updated: 4 Apr 2023 18:54 BST
• 3 min read

Embarrassing details about player treatment have emerged in the wake of Graham Potter's sacking that should serve as a massive indictment of the way Todd Boehly and company have been handling things at Chelsea.

Graham Potter's short time in charge of the Blues was marred by poor form and off-field drama, but Chelsea's hands-on ownership didn't help the manager's cause. While the Englishman has to shoulder the blame for the persistently poor performances, there are suggestions that the circumstances in which he was forced to operate made it impossible for him to get a tune out of his team.

Unsurprisingly, then, he was sacked following a disconcerting 2-0 home loss to Aston Villa. This result put an end to a disappointing and very expensive six-month "project," but given some of the details that have since emerged about the conditions that prevailed at Chelsea during Potter's spell, any potential replacement is also going to find it difficult to salvage this dismal season.

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Corridors and floors

According to The Athletic, the Chelsea facilities were unable to cope with the large influx of players that the Boehly regime signed in the summer and the January windows. After €600 million spent on new players, there simply wasn't enough room to accommodate everybody.

Indeed, says The Athletic, after January, there were so many first-team members at the club that some players had to sit on the floor during team meetings. Additionally, the dressing room was simply too small to offer every new player his own locker.

Big-money January arrivals Noni Madueke and Mykhaylo Mudryk had to get changed in a corridor area because there wasn't any more space available among the first-teamers.

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In fact, such is the sheer number of players in Chelsea's squad that they can simultaneously play 11v11 and 9v9 games in training without having to call up any youth players to make up the numbers.