GRAHAM POTTER has held crunch talks with Chelsea chief Todd Boehly following the club’s latest embarrassment on the pitch.
The Blues suffered a 2-0 defeat to Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge on Saturday night – a defeat which has left them toiling in ELEVENTH place in the table.
Potter received the dreaded vote of confidence from his bosses last month but results have yet to improve.
And Saturday’s humbling by Villa has prompted Boehly to have another think about the direction his club is heading in.
SunSport understands the American held showdown talks with his close associates over Potter’s future at the club.
The under-pressure Potter wasn’t summoned to the West Londoners’ Cobham base by his boss.
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He was already present at the ground when Boehly’s trusted staff arrived at Cobham.
It’s unknown whether the American has decided to wield the axe for the second time this season after giving Thomas Tuchel the boot in September.
Defeat to Villa has left Chelsea a whopping 12 POINTS off the Champions League places.
And Potter is refusing to offer any excuses for his side’s latest lacklustre display.
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He told Match of the Day: “After a defeat there is always a disappointment.
“There is always a feeling we have not moved forward, that’s fair to say.
“We have to analyse the performance and look at the things we’ve done well and what we can do better.
“Defensively we’ve left ourselves too open but again if you look at the stats of the game we had chances ourselves, we had one-v-ones.
“But the most important thing, putting the ball into the net, we were second-best.
“I don’t like to blame anybody, I have to take responsibility.
“We are a team, we have to stay together, we are together. We win or lose together.
“We will recover and we will prepare for the next game. We need to respond, that’s clear. But we look forward to it.”
Chelsea’s dire record in the league currently stands at a meagre three wins in their last 13 games since the turn of the year.
And, unsurprisingly, a rising number of Blues supporters want to see the under-fire Potter relieved of his duties.
Those calls have strengthened now that former Bayern Munich boss Julian Nagelsmann is available.
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A petition for his dismissal was launched back in February and has thousands of signatures.
Chelsea will be back in action on Tuesday, welcoming fellow under-performers Liverpool to Stamford Bridge.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
