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Change at Stamford Bridge

In the end, it was more a spectacle than anything else, now it's over: Chelsea has fired Antonio Conte – and Maurizio Sarri has been installed as new coach.

One goes, the other comes: Antonio Conte and Maurizio Sarri.

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If this farce needed a last chapter, she had it. In fact, Antonio Conte had long been with Chelsea and Chelsea a long time ago with Conte. The triumph of the FA Cup at the end of the season did not change the fact that the Italian would not go to his third season of Premier League – that he had provided himself for a long time.

And yet, he was right there when the rest of the league were already putting on the shoes for the first test matches. Just the "how" – it's kind of a cherry on the divorce cake. By email, players who were not or were not at the World Cup were informed that they would participate in the first fitness tests last Saturday on club grounds. The e-mail has arrived, writes the Times, but not by Conte; one of his badistants had sent him and Conte quickly replied: "I am still the boss here!" And the boss did not want to start until Monday.

In fact Conte was even better than Sarri

He was allowed to even, probably only because Chelsea could not agree with Naples on a transfer for their former coach Maurizio Sarri, long chosen as successor of wish, Well, with almost two weeks late, it's time. Friday, Chelsea finally announced the dismissal of Contes. And again, the "how" looked deeply: The sober statement contains exactly three sentences and not even a 48-year-old man's picture. After all, the Blues finally wish him "all the success possible for his future career".

After a first success (championship) and a very turbulent second year the Causa Conte is over. It is expected that the Italian, until 2019 under contract inserts a "sabbatical".

Sarri signs for three years – and wants to entertain

Saturday, Sarri was officially introduced as a new coach to the Blues, he signed a contract until 2021. Three years, the 59-year-old worked in Naples, taught an attractive Attacker football and led the Partenopei three times in the Champions League, but also failed due to the great desire for the first Scudetto since 1990.

Napoli had already announced late May that Carlo Ancelotti the next attempt management championship would dare, At that time, Sarri was already Chelsea Plan A; Only the exit clause of eight million euros opposed Londoners. Both clubs approached.

"I hope," Sarri is quoted on the club's website, "that we can offer our fans to entertain football and play for titles." On Monday, the new coach will lead his first unit, towards the end of the month, to line jumps from Chelsea to prepare for Australia.

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