Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta says he sympathises with Graham Potter as his Chelsea counterpart continues to come under fire at Stamford Bridge.
Potter oversaw a 10th defeat in Chelsea's last 17 matches when the Blues went down 2-0 at Tottenham on Sunday, with a petition launched calling for his sacking coming in the immediate aftermath of the match.
Almost 45,000 people have signed the call to remove Potter from his position since Sunday night, but while the Chelsea hierarchy would take little notice of that anyway, there are no plans to sack the former Brighton boss in the immediate future.
Potter even cited Arteta and Jurgen Klopp as examples of bosses who needed time to implement their ideas in his post-match press conference at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
"We were talking before the game about watching All or Nothing and Arsenal, two years into Mikel's reign he's close to getting the sack and people are wanting him out and it's a disaster. And now things have changed a little bit - and that's just the way it is," he said.
"If you look at Jurgen's situation - they haven't got results and all of a sudden people want him out, that's just the nature of football.
"Obviously I haven't done enough at this club to have too much good faith, and I also accept that."
Speaking ahead of Wednesday night's clash with Everton, where a win would take Arsenal five points clear at the top of the Premier League table, Arteta says he knows just what Potter is going through.
"Absolutely, we are colleagues and we all know the pressure and the demands and the uncertainty that this industry has," he said.
"At the end of the day, the ball has to go into that net, and there are many factors that can prevent that that are out of your control, so I fully empathise because you suffer and you know how it is when you are going through those moments."
Prior to the Tottenham game Potter had revealed that vile death threats had been aimed at both himself and his children during Chelsea's poor run of form, admitting that he had found the scrutiny tough to take.
Arteta again says he sympathised with the Englishman, although he refused to confirm whether he had ever been on the end of something similar.
"You can have difficulties and challenges in your job, which we do especially when you lose, but when you are winning as well because this job is so demanding, but you cannot destroy your life because of that," he said.
"Your family, your friends, your loved ones and the people around you don’t deserve to have their lives affected in a negative way because you didn’t win a football match, so that balance in my case was critical, but you need some help.
"If someone paints that picture in front of you because sometimes when you are in that position, it is not easy to see."
