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The 59-year-old, who will become Roman Abramovich's ninth full-time manager during his 15 years as an owner, could not be more different in terms of context from his Italian compatriot Conte.
He can not have a trophy in his name, but he turned Napoli into real contenders for the title.
They finished second twice and third on the other occasion behind Juventus, last season becoming the first club to cross the 90-point mark and run out of the crown.
However, Sarri showed a desire to be unorthodox and break the mold.
His family was a laborer – his father worked in construction – but he became an international banker.
For 20 years, he worked for Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, who saw him based in several different countries, working for lower league and non-league clubs.
His command of English will be very useful for communicating with players from the beginning, unlike Conte who could not speak English when he arrived.
However, despite his high-flying banking career, he did not forget his roots – a grandfather beat himself for World War II supporters against the Germans – and he is enraged when he hears about the hyperbole of football.
"When I'm going to run a training session, I never tell my family," I'm going to work, "he told the Avvenire newspaper.
"I come from a family of workers, and if I hear someone talking about" sacrifices "in football, I'm going crazy."
Indeed, Sarri – who is clearly not from school Bill Shankly to say that football is much more serious than life and death – said that he would do the job free.
"A difficult life rises at six in the morning and will work in a factory assembly line, not this one," he said.
"Coaching is the only job I could consider doing for free."
Sarri, however, seems to be a more flexible character than Conte, the latter having pushed some of the senior players to distraction with his intense workouts and also his lack of personal warmth.
"I realized that there is a child in every footballer, a child who plays a game," he said in the Times.
"It's where it's going, and when the players are having fun, they're more productive, tactical rigor is important but we must never lose sight of the game and make sure the game Child has fun. "
That does not mean that Sarri is a gentle soul that keeps her emotions under control, as there have been several provocative incidents – including an abusive rant against a football journalist and a hammer blow to fans of Juventus last season.
Roberto Mancini, Italy coach, accused Sarri of homophobia by calling him "faggott" in a semifinal of the Italian Cup in 2016 while He was the boss of Inter Milan.
This kind of language will put him in hot water with the authorities, but another more immediate dilemma awaits him – how does he pass the strict anti-smoking policies in English.
There is a debate about the number of cigarettes that he smokes every day – some say 60 while the Belgian Napoli striker, Dries Mertens, felt that he thought that he was smoking cigarettes. it looked more like five packs a day.
Sarri must hope that the clubs will be as accommodating as the German club RB Leipzig, who set up a special section for smokers in the Napoli locker room last season for a Europa League match.
But if they are accommodating on the ground, they will decide whether his hopes shine or rise in a cloud of smoke.
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