Chelsea are obvioulsy a mess right now not least thanks to cowboy Boehly. I don't follow Chelsea that closely and reading through this thread, at first I found myself nodding in agreement with all those writing off Potter completely now. But then I looked at their match history and thought maybe someone could play devils advocate here.
If you look at the match history, Potter was undefeated for the first 9 games with Chelsea. Off the 7 losses in the 10 recent games 5 of those came against the current top 3 and most in form teams in the league. Three of the losses directly vs. City. Taking over such a mess of a club and losing those games in succession to City is not a big shame. So that brings it down to 4 losses in 10. Arsenal at home probably stings, but they only lost one match the whole season and are on fire.
Newcastle you might argue do not have a better team on paper and a good coach should get a result there, but it was away from home and after losses vs. Arsenal and City when morale was already worsening. So you if you add all this context it doesn't look as terrible. Should the team put up more of a fight? Sure. But the only really bad results in his first 19 games were losses to Brighton and now Fulham, both away from home which can happen to top teams in the EPL. Even ETH who is undoubtably doing amazing work so far at United had two losses away from home against Villa and Brentford so far.
The media is already constructing the Moyes story line and is easy to make those connections. And it might just turn out to be true - be it as a self fulfilling prophecy due to players losing belief or because Potter really is out of his depth and not cut out for this. You might certailny argue if he doesn't turn it around the latter is true regardless. But for now, I think it's still too early to judge him as a complete failure.
Whatever Potter does, of course the elephant in the room will still be there in Boehly, who will continue to act like a drunken ivy league student, taking home any two legged chick with too much make-up on as long as she tells him that his dads Porsche makes him look like the king of the world. So yeah, if we look at it realistically it will probably remain a car crash of a season. But I do think the certainty in writing off Potter is a bit premature if you add context to his recent results. Of course it seems more likely it won't work out, but just want to put some counter arguments to the thread for balance.