Gary Neville has explained what Manchester United must prove to Graham Potter

When Todd Boehly hired Graham Potter at Chelsea, the decision took many by surprise.

Potter was building a good reputation for himself in football and his work at Brighton and Hove Albion was going to lay the foundations for Roberto De Zerbi to build on. However, each of his previous roles had seen him craft a culture through time - Chelsea is historically not a club who affords that luxury.

Despite this, there was high expectations of Potter and sadly, seven months later, he was shown the exit. It was a fall from grace for the Englishman which threatened to bury his reputation.

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In the aftermath though, Gary Neville believed Potter potentially asked for the sack. "I think if you’re Graham Potter, I suspect Graham Potter is a good man. I reckon he’ll have, to be fair, gone home after he’s been sacked - whenever that was - yesterday morning or the night before, and I bet there’s an element of relief," he told Sky Sports in April.

"I don’t think he was enjoying it there, I think he’ll have thought 'it’s been mad.' What he’s been used to, in terms of what his view is of football, I think he’ll have seen what was going on behind the scenes, they lost Petr Cech and Marina Granovskaia at the start of the season - that wasn’t planned.

"They lost [Thomas] Tuchel - that wasn’t planned. He’s come into a club that’s in a massive transition, they’ve paid millions of pounds, they don’t know what they’re doing, to be fair, they’re learning on the job and he’s probably just thinking ‘these lot are mad.’

"Actually the sporting director, the briefings in the last 24 hours - [Paul] Winstanley and