New Chelsea boss Graham Potter faces a mountain of issues to solve as his Stamford Bridge tenure gets underway

One clean sheet all season, a hastily-assembled squad and an owner set on shaking up English football. Welcome to Chelsea, Graham Potter.

The Blues' new boss seems well aware he has swapped the relative calm of Brighton for a West London maelstrom, but in his public utterances so far Potter has exuded a calm excitement as he begins to get to grips with the task ahead. Ad And it's some task, with Chelsea spluttering their way through the season so far and a series of potentially season-defining fixtures on the horizon.

Already. Champions League'I don't think I have' — Potter preparing for his first ever Champions League match17 HOURS AGO So what are the key things Potter must get right if he is to turn the Stamford Bridge ship around? Gelling new signings Wesley Fofana, Marc Cucurella and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang were among the big arrivals at Chelsea over the summer.

But there were five more besides as new Blues owner Todd Boehly made waves in his first transfer window, spending north of £250 million as he set about refreshing a squad that had stagnated during previous windows, not only following sanctions imposed on previous owner Roman Abramovich earlier this year, but also dating back to 2019 when FIFA imposed a transfer ban following irregularities concerning youth signings. ‘Short memories' – Owen says Son should not be dropped by Tottenham Van Dijk takes aim at ex-players for trying to 'get us down' after Liverpool beat Ajax Real Madrid to reignite Mbappe pursuit next summer – Paper Round But was the surgery excessive? Potter will be the man to prove whether that has been the case or not, and he will need to answer numerous questions about the composition of his best XI.