Chelsea pulls manager Antonio Conte after two trophies in two years in charge

. Antonio Conte's extended divorce against Chelsea was finalized Friday (Saturday NZ Time) He won the English Premier League and FA Cup but failed to get the power he had dreamed of at the club. London.

Chelsea began a brief four-sentence statement on his website, "Chelsea Football Club and Antonio Conte are separated."

The departure of Stamford Bridge has always been the probable outcome of Conte after a season when Chelsea missed the Champions League qualifier after a fifth-place finish, 30 points behind the Manchester City champion.The Italian coach grumbled regularly about his failure to exert control, especially on transfers.

Contrast only until the end of his first season at the club, where Conte was celebrated to lead Chelsea to the league title by seven points after a record- A series of 13 consecutive wins in the middle of the season, caused by a change of inspired and daring formation.

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Storytelling this week at Chelsea's Cobham training base with players who had not competed at the FIFA World Cup, but news was released on Thursday in the Italian media saying that Conte had been fired. This speculation only intensified when midfielder Chelsea Cesc Fabregas and former Chelsea captain John Terry paid tribute to Conte on social networks

"Thank you boss", a writes Terry on Twitter. "Great man, great manager, I wish you every success in the future."

The announcement of the 64-word club was finally made Friday (NZT Saturday) and ends with: "We wish Antonio every success in his future career."

Conte still had a year on a revised contract that he had signed last summer after delivering the fifth Premier League title since Roman Abramovich had bought Chelsea in 2003. But the pay was even better, the Conte contract The main dissatisfaction of the Italy for the past year has been Chelsea's failure to clinch the signatures that he really wanted for his defense of the Premier League title. Chelsea was beaten by Manchester United's Romelu Lukaku and Fernando Llorente by Tottenham, for example.

"The club decides all players," he groaned last season

. Wembley Stadium in May – and finish with his great rival management, Jose Mourinho – turned out to be the last hurray of Conte and maintained his record of victory in each season when he was in charge of Juventus . Chelsea is looking for a 13th permanent director under the ownership of Abramovich, and perhaps the most turbulent period of the reign of the Russian billionaire.

It appeared in May that Abramovich had not yet his British visa. renewed amid a crackdown by the authorities on the associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Chelsea also halted the Stamford Bridge redevelopment project, citing an unfavorable climate to invest in the 500 million pound ($ 986 million) project.

Conte suggests in the British and Italian media that former Napoli coach Maurizio Sarri will take over Chelsea for next season.

The future of Sarri has been in the air since Napoli hired Carlo Ancelotti as a new coach in May. Sarri spent three years at the club and led them twice and to a third place, playing an entertaining and energetic football brand like that of Man City under Pep Guardiola, Tottenham under Mauricio Pochettino and Liverpool under Juergen. Klopp

Sarri did not win a major title in Naples, but that will not be tolerated in Chelsea.

As Conte and many of his predecessors have learned, even winning trophies does not guarantee the safety of the job. Chelsea under Abramovich.

– AP