Chelsea: The moment Tottenham got mugged off in Sky report on Graham Potter

Graham Potter has been posing for photographs in Chelsea gear this week as he looks to get his new regime at Stamford Bridge underway in style.

In a whirlwind few days in west London, new Blues owner Todd Boehly brought the axe down on Thomas Tuchel and took the bold decision of poaching Potter from Brighton & Hove Albion.

At least, bold in the sense that this is Potter’s first foray into management at the very highest level of the men’s game, because there’s no denying that he’s got the tactical prowess required to make a success of himself.

The job that Potter had been doing on the south coast over the past three years was nothing short of exemplary, building Brighton up as one of the most exciting, expansive and tactically flexible teams in the Premier League.

He needed patience from the owners to accomplish that progress, sure, but if Boehly extends his new coach that same level of tolerance then don’t be surprised if the Blues reap similar results.

And you certainly wouldn’t put it past Potter to achieve big things at the Bridge because his coaching career up until this point seems to have been so meticulously plotted that it feels like something straight out of Football Manager.

His rise through the ranks at Ostersunds to a foothold back in the British game with Swansea City, before spring-boarding into an exciting project at Brighton makes it feel as though he perfectly paved the path to Chelsea himself.

And it certainly seems as though Potter wasn’t settling for anything less than the very best when he eyed up his next move away from the Amex Stadium.

We know that because an interesting report by Sky Sports during the transition of power at Stamford Bridge made it very clear just how high Potter’s standards were