Simon Jordan blames two Chelsea players for Graham Potter sacking

Simon Jordan has hit out at Chelsea’s recruitment policy under Todd Boehly. However, the former Crystal Palace chairman believes the performances of the players ultimately led to the sacking of Graham Potter.

Potter was dismissed on Sunday evening, a day after the dismal 2-0 home defeat to Aston Villa. Chelsea were again unable to score despite creating over 20 shots at goal.

Boehly has spent over £600million on new signings since he bought Chelsea last year. However, he has not splashed out big money on a recognised central striker.

Jordan cannot believe that area of the pitch has not been addressed. However, he believes the likes of Kai Havertz and Raheem Sterling should be scoring more and claims their lack of goals is ultimately behind Potter’s exit.

Jordan said on talkSPORT: “It’s unfathomable [Chelsea haven’t signed a striker], isn’t it? For all of us sitting across this table, for the whole football fraternity, it’s almost beggar’s belief.

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“But it doesn’t excuse the fact that Man City didn’t have a centre-forward and they scored hatfuls of goals last year. So why can’t Havertz score some more goals?

“Why can’t Sterling chip in with some more goals when he’s fit? Why can’t the players that are perfectly capable of scoring goals in this side, score some goals?”

Havertz is Chelsea’s leading scorer this season with nine goals to his name. Seven of those have come in the league, while Sterling has just four goals in 19 league outings since joining from Manchester City last summer.

Jordan admits it should not be down to Boehly to scour the market for a striker. He added: “He’s not the football nouse. He’s not trawling through Rothman’s guide of football players going ‘I’ll buy him, I’ll buy him’.

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“Someone in that football fraternity, that football mafia, which is either the director of football or the coach himself going ‘excuse me Mr owner, I think you’re missing a trick here, I need a bleeding centre-forward’. You’d think someone would say that to him, wouldn’t you?”

However, Jordan has hit out at Boehly for appointing Potter in the first place. The pundit reckons the American tried to go against the norm at Chelsea but failed.

Jordan said: “I do believe he wanted to defy conventional wisdom, he wanted to countermand the orthodoxy of Chelsea, which is ‘if it doesn’t go right, he’s gone’. And everybody knew that Potter from the outset was going to struggle.

“It was a strange appointment from the outset because it looked like Todd Boehly got a progressive coach – Chelsea aren’t a progressive football club, they’re an instantaneous hit, or there’s a problem.”

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