Graham Potter insists he isn’t “naive” sufficient to anticipate a contented homecoming when he takes his Chelsea facet to former membership Brighton and Hove Albion on Saturday.
The 47-year-old left the Amex final month to switch Thomas Tuchel as Blues boss and has but to lose a sport together with his new membership.
In distinction, since Potter’s departure, Brighton have didn’t win a single sport, with Roberto De Zerbi nonetheless searching for to make an impression after taking cost.
Potter guided the Seagulls to their best-ever league end as they ended final season in ninth and so they had climbed as excessive as fourth earlier than he left for Stamford Bridge.
“It is a place where I spent three happy years and I am looking forward to going back,” Potter stated on the eve of the sport.
“These things happen in football, sometimes life throws you opportunities and you have to take them or not, the timing wasn’t great for anybody but sometimes that happens.
“Then it is about the decision, the decision to work here was too good to turn down, I thought. As to what the crowd, what the expectations from them are, I don’t really have any.
“Most people I have spoken to in Brighton have been supportive thankfully – but I am not naive, I know it is not universal.”
Potter has been preserving a detailed eye on his former costs since his exit and believes they’re higher than their outcomes below De Zerbi recommend.
Asked if that first win may come towards his Chelsea facet, Potter replied: “Of course, they are capable of that.
“I think they have been unlucky, that is the only thing I can say, the performances have been good, there are positives there. You need luck and I don’t think they have had any.
“I think Roberto has been in a few weeks now, you can see the ideas, the differences, there is definitely change there I would say.
“There is a new manager, new ideas and there is always something to learn, something to surprise.”
Source: www.unbiased.co.uk