Luiz Felipe Scolari warned Antonio Conte that “nothing prepares you for a job like Chelsea, because you must win straight away.”
The Italy Coach has already announced he will be taking over at Stamford Bridge after Euro 2016.
“You can win the World Cup, be European champion and the best Coach on the planet — but that cannot prepare anyone for a job like Chelsea,” Scolari told The Sun newspaper.
“Your coaching record does not count once you’re there because you must win things straightaway.
Luiz Felipe Scolari warned Antonio Conte that “nothing prepares you for a job like Chelsea, because you must win straight away.”
The Italy Coach has already announced he will be taking over at Stamford Bridge after Euro 2016.
“You can win the World Cup, be European champion and the best Coach on the planet — but that cannot prepare anyone for a job like Chelsea,” Scolari told The Sun newspaper.
“Your coaching record does not count once you’re there because you must win things straightaway.
“It’s like very few positions in the world because the Premier League is like no other league in the world.
“Everything a Coach will have experienced in countries like Italy, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Germany and France will not be the same as in England.
“You must be prepared to accept it’s different. The league is the strongest, most competitive and most unpredictable and the football culture is so different.
“Plus it’s Chelsea, where the expectations are higher than most clubs in the world and you have some of the biggest players.
“Coaching Chelsea is like coaching Brazil. The pressure is huge.”
Scolari lasted just 36 games at Stamford Bridge, while the likes of Claudio Ranieri, Andre Villas-Boas, Avram Grant, Rafa Benitez and Jose Mourinho twice also got the sack.
Roberto Di Matteo won the Champions League and that still didn’t stop the Italian being fired.
Scolari told Conte to watch out for the player power at the club, something Mourinho learned to his cost this season.
“There was a group running things there for years and it was me and a few people from my staff against 25 of them.
“They had a few that didn’t agree with what I was deciding. You would hear them say ‘I don’t want to play in this position’ or ‘Why are we doing this?’”