Graham Potter Takes Sweden Job On Short Deal With World Cup Target

Graham Potter has been appointed arsenic Sweden’s caput coach connected a short-term woody pinch nan extremity of qualifying for nan World Cup. The 50-year-old, sacked by West Ham little than a period ago, will return complaint of nan last 2 qualifiers adjacent period and his statement will beryllium extended to screen nan playoffs and adjacent summer’s tourney should nan squad get there.

Sweden are bottommost of their qualifying group pinch 1 constituent from 4 games and play successful Switzerland connected 15 November past astatine location to Slovenia 3 days later. They could scope nan playoffs moreover if they do not decorativeness 2nd because they won Nations League group C1. The 12 qualifying group runners-up will beryllium joined by nan 4 best-ranked Nations League conception winners successful March’s playoffs.

Potter takes complete from Jon Dahl Tomasson and inherits a squad that includes Liverpool’s Alexander Isak and Arsenal’s Viktor Gyökeres. He has acquisition successful Swedish shot having spent 7 successful years pinch Östersund from 2011. He has since managed Swansea, Brighton, Chelsea and West Ham.