Jorginho: ‘I have a normal relationship with Sarri. I don’t go for dinner with him’

Chelsea midfielder denies he is Maurizio Sarri’s golden boy and says he is working hard to get the fans onside

Jorginho abandons Italian and breaks into English only once but, when he does, it is born of exasperation. The prickly subject of his close relationship with Maurizio Sarri has been raised and with it the notion he is untouchable: that his is the first name on the Chelsea team sheet, as the manager’s lieutenant out on the pitch, charged with delivering the utopia of Sarriball. He is the golden boy who can do no wrong.

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