It’s been nothing however distress for Chelsea this season – so the actual fact their latest barbeque received rained on should not shock anybody.
Mauricio Pochettino has been making an attempt his finest to get his Blues staff to gel, although progress has been painfully sluggish. The Argentine believes that if gamers bond off the sphere it can construct cohesion on it, and so hosted a little bit cook-out on the membership’s coaching floor forward of Sunday’s FA Cup conflict with Leicester.
Unfortunately, rain disrupted the occasion, forcing gamers and employees undercover and finally inside. For some, it would not have been an enormous loss contemplating what was on provide on the barbeque.
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Players weren’t allowed chips, booze or meat with any fats on it – and all below the watchful eyes of the membership’s strict dieticians. That mentioned, specialist sausages and succulent cuts of beef had been offered, so it wasn’t all toil.
Speaking earlier than the barbeque, Pochettino mentioned: “The idea is to share between the players and the staff. The staff are also invited. I think we are going to be 120, 130 people. The most important is that the players understand what it means to be Chelsea players.
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“But we have to be responsible. I propose a BBQ but then there are two nutritionists who will control what they are going to eat. We drink water, orange juice, No alcohol, not to eat too much, eat protein. Green salad, no fries.”
Pochettino mentioned the occasion was a part of his wider plan to remodel the squad from a bunch of strangers and untried rookies right into a band of brothers. He mentioned: “We use different strategies. All the players are different. They come from different countries from different backgrounds, from different cultures.
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“We will be all together. Of course having a barbecue doesn’t mean that afterwards we are going to score goals but of course it is about communication, feeling better. So that this is not only a training ground where you come to work. It’s home and we want to create a good feeling between everyone. To get people to fight for the same thing – to win.”
Chelsea are at present eleventh within the Premier League and are heading in the right direction to complete within the backside half for the second season in a row for the primary time since 1996. They are, nevertheless, simply seven factors behind sixth-placed Manchester United, and nonetheless have an out of doors probability of ending in a European spot.
A win over Leicester on Sunday would additionally transfer them one step nearer to their second Wembley closing of the season, and victory within the competitors can be the right treatment to an in any other case dismal marketing campaign for the London membership.