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Former Chelsea boss, Maurizio Sarri has admitted he regrets leaving the Blues.

The Italian took over at Stamford Bridge back in 2018 after success at Napoli. However, the 64-year-old quit to return to Italy and manage Juventus after just one season in charge of Chelsea, and he now claims it wasn’t the best decision.

He told La Repubblica: “Everything was owed to Juve and we just had to win the Champions League, but it was a contaminated message.

“I won the championship with a group at the end of the cycle and a club that took me on because they had the desire but not the conviction to change their style.

“At Chelsea I found it difficult to immerse myself in an atypical club, without a sporting director, where no coach could last two years.

“But then in the last few months I’ve had fun and I was wrong in wanting to leave, not so much from Chelsea, which would have also kept me, but from the Premier League, a context of unique beauty.

“Returning to Italy was a mistake.”