Udinese coach Luca Gotti has spoken of working with Maurizio Sarri.

The pair were together at Chelsea.

Gotti said, “Maurizio is a living oxymoron.

“He manages to combine extremely refined intelligence with moments of total gut instinct.

“As a professional, I'd define Sarri as a conceptual extremist. He is constantly testing your past beliefs and forcing you to update them.

“We also got along off the field, for that small part of his life that Maurizio reserves outside of football. He is ideologically left-wing, I am the opposite, yet at times we find ourselves arguing the opposite angle, finishing it all with a good laugh."