Graham Potter: The Truth About My Chelsea Story & What's Next (E308)

Before we get started, let me tell you you can now listen to High Performance Add Free. Start your free trial now on Apple, Spotify, or head to our website so you can listen to our episodes uninterrupted. It's easy in your brain to go, potter, flip a neck. Right and coach. And that's the that's what it was. High performing people are still imperfect. I said at the time, I think I said I think Chelsea was the hardest job in football. It's not that I couldn't do it. If you go in and you take a sledgehammer to a place and change it that quickly. Sometimes it'll be collateral damage. Be kind to yourself, accept that you're not gonna be perfect and try to find something that is meaningful, that is worth the sacrifice, and then just try your best. You just heard the voice of former Chelsea, Brighton, and Swansea manager Graham Potter, who joins us today on high performance. I'm Jay Comfrey and

This show is created because I'm fascinated by how people find their own version of high performance. And I'm Damien Hughes. An expert in the world of creating high performance cultures. I'm lucky enough to work with people to help them understand how to create environments that get the best out of themselves. And others.

So today's guest, Graham Potter. Well he's got the most remarkable footballing story and we should celebrate his incredible management career because it is unique. He took Swedish club Ostercent through three promotions before being recruited to the Premier League where he managed Swansea City and Brighton. He took them from having narrowly avoided relegation to ninth place in just three seasons. He left Brighton when they were in the Champions League places in the Premier League. He got picked for one of the biggest jobs in football at that point, the manager of Chelsea. But he lasted just seven months in charge before being dismissed in April twenty twenty three. Since then, he's been on a long career break to reflect

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