Things have to get really bad for Belle Silva to decide she has seen enough.
Graham Potter lasted less than two more weeks as Chelsea head coach after the wife of Thiago Silva liked a tweet from a supporter calling him a “deadbeat tacticless coach” in February 2023. Correlation is not causation, but it was hardly a good sign for his future prospects at Stamford Bridge.
Mrs Silva’s latest withering public assessment fell short of directly criticising Mauricio Pochettino, but it is certainly open to interpretation as a call for his sacking. “It’s time to change,” she wrote. “If you wait any longer it will be too late.”
It’s time to change. If you wait any longer it will be too late 💙💙
— Belle Silva (@bellesilva) February 4, 2024
Pochettino agreed on the need for change after Chelsea’s latest project-shaking humiliation, a 4-2 loss at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers, though he sounds increasingly hazy on the details.
“At the moment we are not reflecting the history of the club, that is true and we need to accept it,” he said. “We need to be critics, but not give up. We are going to work really hard to try to change; maybe take decisions trying to find things in a different way if it’s not working in this way, to try to find different…
