Newcastle United legend Alan Shearer has slammed Chelsea owners for the club’s transfer policy after Graham Potter was sacked on Sunday.

Chelsea made the decision to sack Potter after he guided Chelsea to just three wins in 2023.

Shearer told Match of the Day 2: “Who on earth goes to a football club, pays over £20m for the manager and his staff, puts him on a five or six-year contract, on £10m-a-year, gives them a ridiculous amount of players with a stupid amount of money that’s been spent… and sacks him seven months later?

“It could only happen in football… Anyone with a football brain will tell you that signing that amount of players is not going to work.”