One of the lowest points of Graham Potter’s short time at Chelsea came when somebody from outside of the football department tried to tell him what team to pick for an important home game. At West Ham he will doubtless hope things will not be like that.
Potter has taken his time to return to football - it is two years this April since he was sacked by Chelsea – and he has chosen another London club where ambition and expectation run high and lines of command can become blurred.
From the outside, Potter and West Ham do not look particularly like a match made in football heaven.