Chelsea sack Thomas Tuchel with Brighton manager Graham Potter set to be approached by club

Chelsea person sacked caput manager Thomas Tuchel six matches into the Premier League season.

Chelsea are expected to attack Brighton aboriginal connected Wednesday for support to talk to Graham Potter astir their manager vacancy. Chelsea are besides keen to talk to Mauricio Pochettino and Zinedine Zidane, who are some retired of work.

Todd Boehly has axed Tuchel conscionable 3 months aft completing his takeover of the club. Boehly is inactive acting arsenic sporting manager having moved connected manager Marina Granovskaia, president Bruce Buck and method and show advisor Petr Cech this summertime successful a implicit overhaul of the Roman Abramovich era.

Sky Sports News understands Chelsea person been considering this determination for immoderate clip and it is not a knee-jerk absorption to Tuesday's Champions League decision to Dinamo Zagreb.

The caller ownership has had concerns for immoderate clip and has been looking astatine different options. Now they privation a semipermanent assignment to determination Chelsea forward.

Chelsea beryllium sixth successful the Premier League with 10 points.

A nine connection read: "On behalf of everyone astatine Chelsea FC, the nine would similar to spot connected grounds its gratitude to Thomas and his unit for each their efforts during their clip with the club. Thomas volition rightly person a spot successful Chelsea's past aft winning the Champions League, the Super Cup and Club World Cup successful his clip here.

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"As the caller ownership radical reaches 100 days since taking implicit the club, and arsenic it continues its hard enactment to instrumentality the nine forward, the caller owners judge it is the close clip to marque this transition.

"Chelsea's coaching unit volition instrumentality complaint of the squad for grooming and the mentation of our upcoming matches arsenic the nine moves swiftly to name a caller caput coach."

Tuchel said helium was aggravated astatine himself for a 'huge underperformance' during the Dinamo Zagreb decision - his 100th and past crippled successful complaint - and suggested his broadside are presently lacking hunger and determination.

Chelsea invested a one-window Premier League grounds £273m to revamp the squad this summer.