Paul, certainly there was players to the value of circa £200k plus on the bench.
The Club appointed Potter with a long term plan in mind and they are cutting him some slack because of the injury crisis yesterday with Zakira coming off that made a full team injured.
Personally I don’t think things will start to improve until Chelsea get the key players up and running again which will take time and too many Chelsea fans who have only known success lack patience.
The team below when they are all back and in the groove is good enough to see Chelsea finish closer to the top than the bottom
Mendy
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James
Fofana
Silva
Chilwell
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Kante
Kovacic
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Mount
Felix
Sterling
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Havertz
When everyone is back and in the groove Chelsea have every chance of finishing closer to the top than the bottom but 6 of those players are still injured and Felix is banned for 3 games which makes things very difficult for Potter and Chelsea still lack a striker of any merit.
This is a long term job whoever the Manager is and it will take time for the injuries to clear and the squad to evolve over several windows to get Chelsea back to where they want to be.
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