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5 of our new signings are squad fillers and it could also be argued that Lenglet and Richy are rotation options too, so hardly "first teamers".I see this a lot - Potter had a tough go because Chelsea brought in too many players.
Chelsea did bring in 10 1st team players since last summer.
Spurs brought in 9 (Forster, Spence, Porro, Lenglet, Bissouma, Sarr, Richarlison, Perisic, Danjuma)
Only one team is mired in the bottom half of the table… it’s not the reason Potter struggled at a top team.
Chelsea, however have spent an absolute fortune on players who will pretty much all want to be starting.
I get the point you are trying to make but it's not really a correct comparison.
I don't think it can be argued that Potter didn't have one hell of a job on his hands, trying to keep a bloated squad of big names happy and settled.
Yes, his time at Chelsea can be labelled as a failure but the deck was stacked against him from the off and coupled with his limited experience with 'big name players', he was on a hiding to nothing.
I think we probably need to wait for his next job to decide on how good he really is.