Maurizio Sarri has opened up on the regret he feels for leaving Chelsea after a sole season at Stamford Bridge, calling the decision ‘a sensational mistake’.Sarri wanted to leave the London club and landed the Juventus job in 2019. However, looking back now, he feels he was wrong to agitate for a return to Italy and says that Marina Granovskaia, the Chelsea director, wanted him to stay.🗣️“Marina stonewalled to keep me from leaving Chelsea. Today I say that it was a mistake to want to return to Italy at all costs.”-Maurizio Sarri pic.twitter.com/8m85CSr5rP— Football Talk (@Football_TaIk) July 6, 2021 The Italian coach, who is now the Lazio boss, believes that Chelsea’s current team is better suited to his way of playing.”At Chelsea, I made a sensational mistake, that of wanting to return to Italy at all costs.”Marina stonewalled me to leave Chelsea. I had this desire to return to Italy. Chelsea are a great club, in the following years, they have taken many young people suitable for me.##EDITORS_CHOICE##”I experienced a particular year in which Abramovich could not enter England, and we had an owner who was not present in the area. “A rather difficult situation, all in the hands of Marina and she had a thousand problems to solve, the football aspect was in the hands of us of the staff, not having the economic power available. “Then came Werner, Havertz, Mount, Ziyech: all suited to me and my way of playing.”In his final game at Chelsea, Sarri clinched the Europa League trophy, his first major honour as a coach. The Blues also finished third in the Premier League.
