Italian manager Maurizio Sarri believes he should not have left English club Chelsea after just one year.
Lazio coach Maurizio Sarri regrets leaving Chelsea for Juventus in 2019. Looking back, he believes he could have continued a little longer with the Blues.
Sarri had ‘fun’ in the Premier League
Sarri won the Europa League with Chelsea in his only season in charge of the London side. He then left while the management in place did everything to retain him. Today, he is biting his fingers.
In an interview with La Repubblica, he confirmed: “At Chelsea, I had difficulty establishing myself in an unusual club, without a sporting director, where no coach lasted two years. But the last few months I had fun and I was wrong to want to leave. Not so much from Chelsea, which would also have kept me, but from the Premier League, a context of unique beauty. Returning to Italy was a mistake.”
The experienced transalpine technician also confided that he did not take much pleasure at the head of the Old Lady. “We just had to win the Champions League, but it was the wrong message. I won the championship with a group at the end of the cycle and a club which took me on because it had the desire but not the conviction to change its style.”
