Would letting Maurizio Sarri leave really be sensible for Chelsea?

The manager could go after a trophy and top-three finish. Eden Hazard is on his way. It sums up the modern Chelsea

You hope Maurizio Sarri enjoyed his first trophy in professional football – but this, surely, was not how he imagined it as he whiled away the hours on the ForEx desk of his bank in Florence. Perhaps he had dreamt of one of the great citadels of European football, of Wembley or San Siro, of the Camp Nou or the Luzhniki, but instead he got the Olympic Stadium in Baku, a place so ill-conceived that not only is the stadium inaccessible to most of Europe but the pitch seemed inaccessible from most of the stands, laid out like a Subbuteo cloth laid upon a snooker table as though somebody had seen the London Stadium and thought: “We’ll do that, but more so.”

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/may/30/maurizio-sarri-leave-chelsea-eden-hazard-europa-league

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