Former Chelsea star lifts lid on fuming with Jose Mourinho and being baffled by Maurizio Sarri

Chelsea leader Gary Cahill has plentifulness of memories aft playing astir 300 games for the Blues, including being ‘fuming’ with Jose Mourinho and wholly baffled by Maurizio Sarri.

The 38-year-old won 2 Premier League titles, the Champions League, 2 FA Cups and 2 Europa Leagues wit the Blues, turning retired 290 times for them.

He played nether a drawstring of managers, including Antonio Conte, Andre Villas-Boas and Roberto Di Matteo, but Mourinho stood out, particularly for a memorable caput game.

Cahill’s centre-back spouse John Terry has recalled a communicative of erstwhile Mourinho told them to ‘f**k off’ and helium would motion Raphael Varane and different defender to spot them.

Asked for his memories of the event, Cahill told The Obi One podcast: ‘I was taken aback. I was shocked by it, to beryllium just it p***ed maine disconnected massively.

‘But you cognize what, that was him though wasn’t it? The caput games, helium was clever with worldly similar that.

‘He knew he’d get a reaction, particularly disconnected the quality of maine and John, helium knew that helium would get a absorption and helium did. I was fuming.’

Terry had fixed his broadside of the communicative connected the aforesaid podcast, explaining: ‘We did this possession crippled wherever maine and Gaz played the shot into midfield. There’s nary abstraction to play it into midfield but you person to spell done midfield to get into the different third.

‘Me and Gaz are feeding it, it’s getting intercepted, we’re conceding goals and he’s stopped the session. I’m captain, Gaz is vice-captain and helium says, “See you two, you tin f*** off.”

‘I’ll spell and motion Varane and I’ll motion different apical defender successful the satellite and walk £100m and you 2 tin beryllium connected the seat and ticker them. Me and Gaz were like, “f***ing hellhole we won the league past year!”

‘We couldn’t judge it. Me and Gaz looked astatine each different and said, “Right, crippled on”.’

Late successful his Chelsea vocation Cahill would beryllium managed by Sarri, who helium does not person fond memories of astatine each arsenic helium was retired of the squad and precise confused by his approach.

‘It was each tactical. What was Sarriball? I played it and I inactive don’t cognize what it is,’ Cahill said.

‘He didn’t play maine truthful – it was precise standstill. He was a precise superstitious manager. We would signifier a centre, the shot being played backmost to the centre-back who would enactment a ft connected it, and smash a diagonal.

‘The restart of a crippled for example. We’d bash that each Friday. You’re talking afloat connected planetary players. That lone needs 1 session, doesn’t it? It blew my mind.’

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