{"id":1094241,"date":"2019-06-17T15:34:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T14:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1094241"},"modified":"2019-06-17T15:34:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T14:34:46","slug":"chelsea-warned-they-may-regret-getting-rid-of-maurizio-sarri","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/chelsea-warned-they-may-regret-getting-rid-of-maurizio-sarri\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea warned they may regret getting rid of Maurizio Sarri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paul Merson believes Chelsea could live to regret their decision to let Maurizio Sarri leave for Juventus.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Italian guided the London club to a third-place finish in the Premier League in his only season in charge, as well as winning the Europa League title and reaching the League Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7284737-it-s-time-to-talk-about-a-potential-bernard-or-silva<\/p>\n<p>And although Merson admitted the football played under Sarri wasn&#8217;t great at times, he did hint that Chelsea could look back on their decision to allow the Italian to leave as a mistake, given his success.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The football hasn&#8217;t been great under Sarri,&#8221; Merson said. &#8220;Season wise though, it&#8217;s not been bad. I hope we don&#8217;t look back next season and think, cor, he was good &#8211; they only finished behind Liverpool and Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To come third and winning a European final &#8211; it&#8217;s the tournament they were in too, they didn&#8217;t drop out of the Champions League &#8211; could they have done much more?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pressure was: he didn&#8217;t really play (Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Callum Hudson-Odoi), was predictable with Jorginho, and the football at Stamford Bridge wasn&#8217;t great, it started off entertaining and then fizzled out. It was a catalogue of things in the end. But you don&#8217;t want to be sitting there asking why they let him go next season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yannick Carrasco, Bruno Fernandes, Matthijs de Ligt TRANSFER NEWS w\/Squawka\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xRJ-5tmqd-E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/sqwk.at\/Squawka-Sub\" rel=\"noopener\">Squawka\u2019s Youtube channel here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Frank Lampard is being heavily linked with a move to replace Sarri in the Chelsea dugout after guiding Derby County to the Championship play-off final during his first season in management.<\/p>\n<p>Merson has been impressed with the job Lampard has done since taking over at the Rams and believes Chelsea&#8217;s transfer ban could actually help their record goalscorer, buying much more patience with the club&#8217;s hierarchy than usual.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s done a bit of an apprenticeship at Derby. They did great to get into the Championship play-off final,&#8221; Merson told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/15205\/11742898\/chelseas-transfer-ban-would-take-pressure-off-frank-lampard-says-paul-merson\" rel=\"noopener\">Sky Sports<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s not like you&#8217;re bringing in a manager who&#8217;s going to be dealing with \u00a370, 80, 90m transfer deals with the pressure on him to bring in players, especially when you haven&#8217;t been in that situation before and you&#8217;re talking about inexperience.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1093627\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/chelsea-lineup-under-sarri-replacements#UHW3xSvH7ZpP8Rqm.99\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1093627\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1093627\" src=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/06\/12141304\/Sarri-Alternatives.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/06\/12141304\/Sarri-Alternatives.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/06\/12141304\/Sarri-Alternatives-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/06\/12141304\/Sarri-Alternatives-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/06\/12141304\/Sarri-Alternatives-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/06\/12141304\/Sarri-Alternatives-66x37.jpg 66w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/06\/12141304\/Sarri-Alternatives-620x350.jpg 620w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/06\/12141304\/Sarri-Alternatives-940x530.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1093627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">READ MORE:<\/span><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/chelsea-lineup-under-sarri-replacements#UHW3xSvH7ZpP8Rqm.99\">How Chelsea would line up under the five most likely Sarri replacements<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;(Ole Gunnar) Solskjaer &#8211; he&#8217;s been manager of Molde, didn&#8217;t do great at Cardiff and he&#8217;s got to be bringing in players of that level. 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