There aren’t many people who know Graham Potter’s methods better than Neal Maupay....CONTINUE READING
The striker arrived at Brighton the same summer that Potter did, and they worked together for three seasons.
He has pleaded with Potter’s new employers to give their new man time, pointing out that things took time to get going on the South Coast, but the rewards were there in the end.
“He is a very good manager but he won’t change things overnight. He will need time. Last season we finished ninth. But the season before that we finished 16th and we were only safe about three games before the end of the season,” the striker said in quotes picked up by Football.London.
“Football changes. Just because we were struggling yesterday doesn’t mean that tomorrow won’t be good. At Brighton we had two tough seasons and the third one was the good one. To build takes time.”
Of course, at Chelsea he won’t get that same sort of time, and nor can he be expecting to. But if he can just pick up a bit of momentum in these early stages he can hopefully earn himself enough credit in the bank to get his ideas across.
It won’t be easy – Thomas Tuchel has just been sacked after a bad run of games, despite having a Champions League’s worth of credit in the bank.
