Graham Potter will make a return to football fans’ television screens on Monday night as a pundit.
The manager has been absent from the touchline since he left his role as Chelsea head coach in April 2023.
Potter left Brighton to replace Thomas Tuchel at the Blues just seven months prior but didn’t see out his five-year deal at Stamford Bridge.
He has since been linked with other vacancies in England and Europe although has not yet made a managerial comeback.
However, he is set to appear on Sky Sports for their Monday Night Football coverage of Bournemouth vs Southampton, which is also live on talkSPORT.
Potter will work as a pundit alongside Jamie Carragher as they review the weekend’s action and preview the next Premier League fixture.
One topic that is likely to be discussed is the match between the 49-year-old’s former sides Chelsea and Brighton that finished 4-2.
It saw Cole Palmer become the first player in Premier League history to score four goals before half-time in a match.
He signed from Manchester City five months after Chelsea parted ways with Potter, who likened his west London exit to ‘grieving’.
Speaking in a recent interview with The Telegraph, he said: “It’s a bit like a grieving process in a way, it gets better with time.
“You have to try not to beat yourself up, but you can’t just blame everything on somebody else. You’ve got to find the right balance. It’s not nice because of the high-profile nature of it.”
“There’s a humiliation that it doesn’t go well,” he added. “I was sacked after seven months of a five-year contract after being taken from Brighton, so there’s all that on a human level you have to deal with.
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“The first six months were tough because I worked really, really hard to get that type of opportunity. I don’t think it was the only opportunity I was going to get because I left Brighton in a really, really good place. So it was about choosing the right opportunity.
“And I didn’t choose the wrong one, it just didn’t work out. I don’t have any regrets over doing it, but, at the same time, when anybody loses their job, there’s an element of frustration, anger and maybe bitterness at some point.”
Potter rejected the chance to become the new Ajax boss in May and was then linked with the job at Leicester City, who eventually hired Steve Cooper.
He has been heavily linked with the vacancy at the England national team, who currently have Lee Carsley in interim charge, after Gareth Southgate left the role.
Manchester United has also been a speculated destination for Potter in recent months amid questions over the future of Erik ten Hag.
talkSPORT understands that despite their 3-0 defeat to Tottenham on Sunday, United will stick with Ten Hag for at least their next two games.
It is also understood that if they make a change, their chief on-field decision makers INEOS are admirers of Potter along with Southgate.
