Graham Potter sacked by Chelsea

Chelsea has parted ways with manager Graham Potter after Saturday’s 2-0 home loss to Aston Villa left it in the bottom half of the Premier League table.

The Blues sit 11th on the Premier League table, but are still alive in the UEFA Champions League and start a quarterfinal tie against Real Madrid on April 12.

Potter was in charge less than seven months after taking the reins from Thomas Tuchel, the Champions League-winning boss fired by new owner Todd Boehly after a dissatisfactory start to the season.

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The firing comes the same day that Leicester City parted ways with Brendan Rodgers, and one day after Tuchel made a memorable Bayern Munich debut by smacking former club Borussia Dortmund.

Longtime Brighton player and assistant Bruno Saltor followed Potter to Chelsea and will lead the club on an interim basis, but Chelsea will know there are a lot of available names in the market. Julian Nagelsmann was fired by Bayern, Antonio Conte left Tottenham, and of course there’s Rodgers.

Eleven teams have changed managers this season, two of them doing it twice. That’s the most firings or departures in a single Premier League season.

It may be overboard to call him the Premier League’s original Bruno, but maybe not?

While Bruno Fernandes and Bruno Guimaraes are currently starring for top four sides, Bruno Saltor was known by just his first name when he helped Brighton get promoted into the Premier League.

Saltor, 42, got his start in his native Catalonia with Espanyol, and played with Gimnastic, Lleida, Almeria, and Valencia before signing for Brighton in 2012.

He made 235 appearances for Brighton, mostly in the Championship. Thirty-nine of those came in the Premier League