Both Chelsea and West Ham United are chasing their first wins of the new Premier League season at the London Stadium on Friday.

No one is doubting Paqueta’s ability, and he is more than capable of dragging West Ham out of the mess they find themselves in, but Potter’s whole ethos during pre-season was that he wanted a tight-knit group that worked hard for each other. In that regard, Paqueta let his teammates down.

Given West Ham paid £1m to poach long-time Potter ally Kyle Macaulay from Chelsea as head of recruitment, the squad will increasingly become Potter’s problem the longer he remains at the club. And yet it appears somewhere between unlikely and unfathomable that he lasts until the next January transfer window.

With their short summer behind them Chelsea got off to a sluggish start in their Premier League opener. Can they recover?