{"id":1200627,"date":"2022-09-08T09:55:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T09:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/graham-potter-agrees-to-become-new-chelsea-head-coach\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T09:55:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T09:55:06","slug":"graham-potter-agrees-to-become-new-chelsea-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/graham-potter-agrees-to-become-new-chelsea-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Potter Agrees To Become New Chelsea Head Coach |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Chelsea have reached a verbal agreement with Brighton manager Graham Potter to replace Thomas Tuchel as their next head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Tuchel was sacked on Wednesday\u00a0in the wake of Chelsea&#8217;s 1-0 loss to Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League and just six games into the new Premier League season.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea owner Todd Boehly met Potter in central London on Wednesday afternoon for what were described as &#8220;positive talks&#8221; about the Brighton manager&#8217;s future role at Stamford Bridge and the club&#8217;s plans to develop the whole football operation.<\/p>\n<p>Those discussions continued early on Thursday morning, with the focus on the legal details of his contract and Potter&#8217;s backroom staff.<\/p>\n<p>No contracts have yet been signed, however both sides have reached a verbal agreement about the \u200b47-year-old taking over at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea made it clear they were prepared to meet Brighton&#8217;s exit clause figure for Potter.<\/p>\n<p>Mauricio Pochettino and Zinedine Zidane, who are both out of work, as well as Sporting in Lisbon manager Ruben Amorim were all also on Chelsea&#8217;s radar.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_home_topstory\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: rgb(17, 97, 142); font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>\nRead Full Story &#8230;.<br \/>\nSkySports >>><br \/>\n<\/span> : \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: SkySports<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have reached a verbal agreement with Brighton manager Graham Potter to replace Thomas Tuchel as their next head coach. Tuchel was sacked on Wednesday\u00a0in the wake of Chelsea&#8217;s 1-0 loss to Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League and just six games into the new Premier League season. Chelsea owner Todd Boehly met Potter in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3881,58,1763,13681,13682],"class_list":["post-1200627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-agrees","tag-chelsea","tag-coach","tag-graham","tag-potter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}