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After sacking Thomas Tuckle yesterday, Chelsea looked poised to appoint Graham Potter as manager.

It's been another incredible 24 hours in southwest London, but in many ways fairly typical of the last 20 years at

Stanford Bridge and we've got all you need to know about why and when the club's new American

owners decided that Tukle was not their man and what lies in store for Potter.

I'm Adam Leventile, this is the Athletic Football Podcast. football podcast. Thomas Tookle carried the weight of Chelsea on his shoulders through that takeover process.

When the ownership were talking about Coo deukorella, that they were very much,

knew everything about Graham Potter, the way

he likes to play football, his coaching methods,

etc, etc, which I think is very significant

that he was already on their radar. The bottom line in all of this is that

Thomas Tuckle was just not the man for these guys and they learned it over the

course of their ownership, however short that

has been so far. History shows at Chelsea that when they make a change,

the players always seem to suddenly find their form again.

I'm joined on this episode from the athletic

by our football correspondent David Ornstein

and our Chelsea writer Simon Johnson. It has been a hectic few hours Simon has it not?

Yes and that's just me getting back from Zargreb. But yeah it's another chapter in this extraordinary history of this football club.

We all thought that the hiring, firing ruthlessness of the Abramovich era was going to be in the past but the new owners have done

something that Roman never did and given the manager just seven games and what a

talking point that is. Now we've got a new in-depth article for you on the

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