Knackered Chelsea stars 'fed up' as Sarri makes squad train on matchdays

Sarri held training just hours before Wednesday's 4-0 humiliation at Bournemouth – their worst defeat in 23 years – as he does before all evening games.

The Italian's obsession with implementing his Sarri-ball style of football has him running the same drills over and over again.

Players have moaned to the Blues boss about being "bored" in training on a number of occasions but complaints seem to have fallen on deaf ears, according to the Evening Standard.

Tensions are high at the club and a heated row broke out between Sarri and his players after the Bournemouth loss as he locked them in the dressing room for over an hour.

But stubborn Sarri, 60, appears to have no plans to change his methods – despite stats suggesting they are simply not working.





The ex-Napoli manager insisted his players "have not even learned the basics" of Sarri-ball.

Sarri said: "We had assumed that we learned a certain style of football but the truth is we never did learn it and are paying the consequences. We haven’t even learned the most basic moves yet.

"We need to work on the basics, the primary foundations of my football, and only then will we try to change a few things."

Sarri opted to car share with one of his assistants rather than take the team bus home from Bournemouth in order to plan yesterday's training session.

Chelsea have fallen to fifth in the Premier League after back-to-back defeats.

Luis Felipe Scolari, who was sacked in February of his first season at Chelsea, had one more point after 24 matches of the 2008/09 campaign than Sarri has now.

Sarri, who apologised to angry Blues fans who confronted him after the Bournemouth embarrassment, is in no imminent danger of being sacked, but needs to demonstrate he is ready to adapt his tactics.

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