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Pep Guardiola has praised Graham Potter for his work at Brighton previously and believes Chelsea should give him timeFormer Ostersunds FK and Swansea City manager Potter led Brighton to ninth place last season, the highest top-flight finish in the club's history.He guided them to fourth in the table this season - after winning four, drawing one and losing one of their first six Premier League games - before joining Chelsea in October.However a manager previously mooted as a potential future England boss is coming under increasing pressure after just eight wins from his first 18 matches at Chelsea."I would say to Todd Boehly, 'give him time'," Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola said. "I know in big clubs, results are important but I'd say give him time."The second half is what he is. What he's done at Brighton is outstanding, but...we need time in the first season. I had (Lionel) Messi in Barcelona my first season so I didn't need two seasons because Messi was there."Shearer agrees with Guardiola, and believes what Chelsea saw in Potter four months ago should still be valid now.The former Newcastle striker said: "They have to stick with him, it would be crazy to do anything else. They have spent a fortune again but are lacking someone who can put the ball in the back of the net."They have to stick together and stick with him and give him time to turn it around. There is a reason they went for him, a reason they took all his staff with him and they have to give him time."'First sounds of unrest for Potter and Boehly' - analysisBBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty: Chelsea manager Graham Potter and owner Todd Boehly heard the first sounds of unrest from supporters who have been fed a diet of success during the FA Cup capitulation at Manchester City.It has certainly been an inauspicious start for the duo. The manager has a lengthy injury list but still has enough quality and experience at his disposal to do much better than suffer six losses in nine games.Boehly, meanwhile, has certainly dipped his hand into his pocket for transfers but there appears little clear structure or strategy to his policy and Chelsea are feeling the impact of losing much experience from their boardroom as well as a manager regarded as one of the game's elite.Chelsea are way off the top-four places and do not merit a mention in the title race. They are in alien territory compared to recent history but this is a team so out of sorts, with a new manager and new owner struggling to create any sort of identity, that their current status is an accurate measure of exactly where they are.Credit : BBC News
