• Conte won 2017 Premier League title and FA Cup last season
• Chelsea to pay Napoli around £50m to get Sarri and Jorginho
Maurizio Sarri is set to be confirmed as Chelsea’s new head coach after Antonio Conte was finally relieved of his duties after two increasingly fractious years in charge.
Conte, who claimed the Premier League title and an FA Cup in his two seasons at the club, had been anticipating the axe to fall all summer but, with Chelsea’s negotiations over the compensation due to Napoli to secure Sarri having proved complicated, he had returned to his office at Cobham last weekend. The Italian even took training on Thursday morning before, with the players sent home for the afternoon, confirmation came of his sacking.
Written by Dominic Fifield
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jul/12/antonio-conte-sacked-chelsea-maurizio-sarri-set-replace under the title “Antonio Conte sacked by Chelsea with Maurizio Sarri set to replace him”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
