Maurizio Sarri leaves Chelsea: Blues bosses in five charts
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Another one bites the dust.
Maurizio Sarri, fresh from Europa League success, lasted less than a year as Chelsea manager, but his brief stint at the helm is not out of the ordinary.
The Italian former Napoli boss was the 12th managerial appointment since Roman Abramovich took ownership of the Stamford Bridge club 16 years ago. The Blues have won 16 major trophies in that period.
So how did Sarri's tenure compare to his predecessors' and how does the shelf life of a Chelsea manager compare to their rivals?
Since Abramovich's arrival, the average tenure of a Chelsea manager is 437 days, a whopping 584 days less than the average Liverpool boss.
No Chelsea manager has kept their job for four years in the Premier League era - only Jose Mourinho (the first time), Claudio Ranieri and Glenn Hoddle have lasted for three entire seasons.
But rapid turnover in managers has not affected their success, with eight of Abramovich's appointments winning trophies.
In fact, no Chelsea manager hired by the Russian has been in charge for a full season and not won a trophy; and the Blues have never gone more than one season without winning a trophy in his reign.
Sarri may have lasted just one season, but only four Abramovich appointments have lasted longer - and two of those were Mourinho's stints.
Sarri's spell of 337 days comes in below the average during the Abramovich era, but he has outlasted eight other managers in that time.
Maybe one reason for Chelsea's high turnover is the relative success of managers early in their tenure.
Five Chelsea appointments to have served at least a full season in charge have won a trophy, and four of them secured silverware in their first campaign.
Of the men on that list, only Mourinho, in his second spell, took longer than a season, needing two campaigns to claim a Premier League title.
It may have been dissatisfaction from fans with Sarri's style that saw him eventually depart, but on paper his league performance was respectable.
Not only did Chelsea finish "best of the rest" behind Manchester City and Liverpool - the two best teams in a Premier League season in history - but only three other Blues managers in a debut campaign under Abramovich have done better than Sarri's third-place finish.
Mourinho, first time round, Carlo Ancelotti and Antonio Conte all won the title in their first seasons.
Abramovich was not shy in backing Sarri, giving him £189m to spend on players.
Only three appointments have been given more resources under the Russian - Mourinho, both times, and Conte - and each of those spells produced at least two trophies.
In fact, Sarri is the first manager under Abramovich to be given more than £100m to spend and fail to produce more than one trophy.
Mourinho's first spell was the best value for money in terms of millions spent per trophy, averaging £67.14m for each piece of silverware.
Sarri cannot compete with those numbers, so will that influence the budget given to the next man in charge at Stamford Bridge?
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He was better than most gave him credit for when he was there, but not as amazing as these revisionist articles would have you believe.
A decent enough manager who should've been given another season.
At no point did you mentioned Sarri was poached by Juve, not sacked as elude to.
Also Hiddink and Benitez were only temporary managers.
... and for most of the season the BBC were attacking Sarri and Sarriball. Why the sudden change of tune. Anyone would think you have an agenda?
I think that this is now the third or fourth HYS re- hashing the first article
They did the same thing after the League Cup final which was a Sarri witch hunt
The facts here are simple Sarri left because Juventus wanted him and he wanted to return to Italy end of story
Moronic people on here constantly digging at Chelsea are pathetic.
Despite mangerial changes since Mr Abramovich's arrival we have won more trophies in that time than most clubs have in their entire history !!!
Media when he's leaving: Sarri is the best manager in history
That said, they have hired and fired through the Abramovich era and won more than anyone else. Who is to say that this method isn’t actually the best way to run a football club, despite how obscene it looks from the outside?