Sarri is a one-dimensional coach who must learn how to win... I think he is now trying to build himself a golden pension NAPOLI CHIEF’S AMAZING ATTACK ON BLUES BOSS

MAURIZIO SARRI has been branded a one-dimensional coach who only came to Chelsea to bank a “golden pension” by his former boss.

And Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis revealed he reprimanded the 59-year-old last season for not rotating his squad and giving up on European football.

Sarri led Napoli to three consecutive top-three finishes in Serie A – and his side notched up the highest points tally ever by a runner-up last term.

De Laurentiis had joined Pep Guardiola and Arrigo Sacchi in hailing Sarri as a footballing genius for his swashbuckling Italian version of tiki-taka.

For nearly three years, the flamboyant film producer and the chain-smoking coach made a great double act until their bitter summer divorce.

And their ongoing war of words has now caused the Napoli president to go back on his previous assessment of Sarri because of his failure to secure silverware.

“It’s true I called him a genius but his genius is a bit one-dimensional, I saw him play in only one way,” he said.

“Let’s see what he does in England. In the last six years he has matured more than in the first 30. What is he missing? A complete coach doesn’t only entertain but he has to also win.”

Sarri won 79 of his 114 matches in charge of Napoli and lost only 13. His record would have seen his side win the scudetto but for a superb Juventus team. Yet De Laurentiis was always unhappy with his record in cup competitions. Sarri tried to keep the same side for Serie A and the Champions League – and they gave Manchester City a fright before losing 4-2 at home in November.

But after failing to qualify for the knockout stages, he sent out a mix-and-match team at home to RB

Leipzig in the

Europa League and lost 3-1 at home.

Sarri’s refusal to commit his future to the Serie A club saw

Napoli appoint former

Chelsea boss Carlo

Ancelotti in May.

De Laurentiis said: “I’m happy because Ancelotti encourages all and everyone.

“If you have players with €60million buyout clauses and don’t play them, you damage yourself and the team because you don’t use your potential and you end up out of the cups because nobody can challenge on two fronts with 11 or 13 starters.

“Are we talking about the Champions League? In this case, yes. You can’t declare in the media you’re giving something up. I told Sarri off and he then tried to go and play in Leipzig after losing 3-1 at home, but it was too late.”

The Napoli president blamed his coach for failing to win the scudetto – then delayed him joining Chelsea until both they and Sarri had agreed in writing not to sign more Napoli players. “I understood it was over when he told me, ‘I don’t know if I can do better with these players’,” De Laurentiis claimed.

“Sarri had entered the stage where a coach thinks of himself or tries to build a golden pension.

I asked him what he wanted to do this year until the last match. I did not get a reply. I saw a certain lack of class in this silence.”