"Someone in that football fraternity, that football mafia, which is either the director of football or the coach himself going 'excuse me Mr owner, I think you're missing a trick here, I need a bleeding centre-forward'. You'd think someone would say that to him, wouldn't you?"

However, Jordan has hit out at Boehly for appointing Potter in the first place. The pundit reckons the American tried to go against the norm at Chelsea but failed.

Jordan said: "I do believe he wanted to defy conventional wisdom, he wanted to countermand the orthodoxy of Chelsea, which is 'if it doesn't go right, he's gone'. And everybody knew that Potter from the outset was going to struggle.

"It was a strange appointment from the outset because it looked like Todd Boehly got a progressive coach - Chelsea aren't a progressive football club, they're an instantaneous hit, or there's a problem."

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