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Robert Pires believes Maurizio Sarri won’t be in charge of Chelsea next season and believes the Italian should be replaced by Zinedine Zidane. Chelsea faces a battle to qualify for the 2019/20 Champions League, with Sarri clinging on to his job at Stamford Bridge. Zidane – who has been out of work since guiding Real Madrid to three consecutive Champions League titles – has been tipped to replace Sarri in some quarters and Arsenal legend Pires believes he would be a great addition to English football.
But more importantly for Chelsea’s sake, Pires thinks Zidane can finally tackle the ‘player power’ problem in the Stamford Bridge changing room. ‘It’s a very strange situation with Chelsea and how they treat their managers,’ Pires told Bwin.
Sarri is a very good manager and he performed very well with Napoli, but it’s hard to see him at the club next season. There appears to be a lot of player power at Chelsea that he is struggling to overcome as many have before him. ‘I think Zidane would be a very good appointment at Chelsea. He would demand respect from the Chelsea players and control the dressing room as a result of everything he has achieved both on the pitch as a player and on the bench as a manager. ‘He’s a winner and a warrior. He’s had great success in the Champions League which is attractive to the Chelsea owner. It would be very good news for the Premier League if Zidane moved to England.’ Sarri was publicly undermined by his goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga during the Carabao Cup final against Manchester City, with the Spaniard refusing to be removed from the field of play, and Pires believes that was just another sign of how the player power at Stamford Bridge is bubbling out of control. ‘It was a very strange situation with Sarri and Kepa at Wembley,’ he added. ‘I don’t think I’ve ever seen that happen before.
It was perhaps a misunderstanding, but it was very poorly handled and would have definitely been on the players’ minds when they were heading for penalties. We’ll never know how much it impacted them, but it also took attention away from a much-improved performance by Chelsea.
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