Graham Potter has laughed off the concept of turning right into a “sexy” supervisor now he has traded Brighton for big-spending Chelsea.
Potter has all the time rejected soccer’s flashy traits and fashions in favour of blending humility and exhausting work with a sprinkling of self-deprecation.
The Solihull-born coach nonetheless drives the identical automotive he collected on shifting from Swansea to Brighton three years in the past.
Not for Potter the trimmings of Chelsea’s King’s Road or the leafy Surrey suburbs of the Blues’ Cobham coaching floor then.
But the 47-year-old insisted his low-key nature should not be mistaken for any lack of perception: Potter stays wholly assured in his means to achieve west London.
Asked if stepping as much as a giant membership like Chelsea would see him reviewing his earlier admission he would by no means be a “sexy” coach and alter his persona, Potter replied: “I sincerely hope not, can be my instinctive reply.
“I very not often really feel horny!
“If you ever have any success otherwise you’re attempting to do something, you must be true to your self, I believe.
“And I’m not saying that I’m right or wrong or anything like that, I have to be me.
“And part of being me is a little bit of self-deprecation.
“I’m intelligent enough to know that I started off below the bottom tier, and after a process of trial and error and a lot of hard work, luck and help from other people I’ve got to this point.
“And that’s a fantastic achievement and something I’m really proud of.
“But at the same time I’m a human being, certainly not perfect and don’t think I’ve cracked anything or have all the answers.”
Potter joked in his first media duties as Chelsea supervisor that he had began his profession beneath soccer’s backside tier, in charting his rise from Swedish facet Ostersund to the Premier League.
The highly-rated coach, who takes Chelsea to Crystal Palace this weekend, has no want for soccer’s plushest trappings, as an alternative selecting to concentrate on the central problem of chasing success with the Blues.
“We haven’t moved, our lifestyle hasn’t changed,” stated Potter of himself and his household.
“We’re not in an open-top car driving round Brighton and Hove, or Surrey or Cobham or anything.
“There’s no Lamborghini on order, I’m still driving the same car that I picked up in England when I returned from Swansea.
“So my life hasn’t changed at all if I’m honest.
“Brighton does have a lovely training ground, and in some ways equal if not better in terms of the facilities.
“But what we have here is a history, and recognition, photos of people winning major trophies.
“And that’s the main thing. That’s where the expectation, or the pressure, the difference is.
“It’s not about facilities, it’s about people and understanding the difference in the context of this football club.
“Managers, top players, legends, trophies; that’s the difference.
“But at the same time I’m intelligent enough to know, I think, and aware enough of my own personality that I’ve got the capability to achieve here.
“And I think if other people have done it then it’s possible for me to do it.
“And I think that’s quite a good way to think about the challenge.”
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