Chelsea Has No Time To Improve – Sarri

Maurizio Sarri has agreed there is an issue with his system at Chelsea but insists he is planning on staying at the club for “a long time”.

Fans took their displeasure to the next level when they booed their manager’s style of football.

Sarri ended up accepting there must be improvement, but said he is more focused on the longer term.

His words, “The system is the first problem. I know very well that when we lose, I have to put a striker on the pitch; when we win, I have to put a defender on the pitch. But I want to see football in another way,”

“It’s not very easy [to improve] because we have no time, but we are trying to solve our problems. It’s not easy because on the pitch we have no time at the moment, but we are trying to talk to the players, to avoid some mistakes by video. It’s not easy. We have to play every three days.

“I have to think we are able to improve, and we are able to improve immediately. The result is not all in the match.

“In the last match, we played better, especially in the first half. We have to solve a big problem because we stayed in the other half for 75 minutes and we were not able to score. They played only 15, 16 balls in our box and scored two goals, so we have to solve this problem, probably a problem of aggression and determination in both boxes.

“At the moment, we are making mistakes with a lot of players. Everybody is sooner or later involved in a mistake. We need more to change the mentality than the players.

“I have to think I will be the manager of Chelsea for a long time, otherwise I cannot work. I am not sure because I have to work, and I want to work with a long-term target.”

“Not at all. I had a lot of problems in the past, especially in [Italy’s equivalent of] League One, League Two – it’s very difficult to be a coach in Italy in League One or League Two.”