Former Chelsea manager Graham Potter has been speaking about his time at Stamford Bridge.

Following the dismissal of Thomas Tuchel, Graham Potter was appointed as Chelsea manager in September 2022, but only lasted seven months on the job.

Amid a poor run of results, Potter was faced with an injury crisis, a mid-season World Cup and, a congested schedule, and he doesn’t think the club signed the right players, as Chelsea went on to spend a whopping £323 million on transfers in January.

Three months after Chelsea’s splurge in the transfer market, Graham Potter was fired as Chelsea manager.

Potter has reflected on his turbulent time at Chelsea in an interview with The Telegraph: “It was almost like the perfect storm.

“It was 14 matches in six weeks prior to the World Cup. It was like you were in the washing machine, that’s what we said within the staff, because the games kept coming and we had no preparation time or anything.

“We lost Reece [James] and Wesley [Fofana] to injury. I think we had the most players at the World Cup and pretty quickly afterwards we lost Raheem [Sterling] and Christian Pulisic.

“Then the ownership decided to invest a lot of money in the squad, £300 million in the January transfer window.

“Now, if you are spending £300 million on players that are coming from outside the Premier League, from countries that are having a mid-season break, then the reality is you can’t just imagine they are going to hit the ground running and everything’s going to be fine.”

Potter admits that was not the wise decision: “Obviously, if you spend £300 million, the pressure on the team goes up and the pressure on the coach goes up. And people go: ‘Come on then, you’ve spent all this money.’

“I think if I’d have spent it on Harry Kane and Declan Rice, then fair enough, but at the time that was the decision.

“We tried to support it as best we could, but it left us with a challenge of a lot of players after January and then they can’t go anywhere.”