Chelsea stars ‘late for team bus’ after post-training ‘naps’ as report reveals slipping Cobham standards

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11 September 2024, 17:14 yayınlandı

Chelsea stars reportedly find it amusing when teammates are ‘late for the team bus’ after post-training ‘naps’, as untied shoelaces and players’ open desire to leave the club paint a pretty grim picture of life at the training ground under Frank Lampard.

The Blues could finish 13th in the Premier League depending on results on the final day after a shockingly poor season in which £600m of new signings has sent them backwards.

, with Thomas Tuchel, Graham Potter and Bruno Saltor all having a go at managing the car crash of a squad before Lampard was put in interim charge.

The Chelsea legend has lost seven of his nine games in charge of the club, during which time he’s hammered home the need for his players to do “the basics”, while .

He also referred to the slipping standards at Stamford Bridge and the Cobham training ground, and a report in The Telegraph reveals how Lampard’s authority has been questioned in his short time back at the club, with the players quite clearly not giving a sh*t about what he has to say as professionalism falls by the wayside.

Players ‘trudging on to the training pitch with their laces undone’ doesn’t sound all that bad, but teammates ‘smirking’ at players ‘arriving late for the team bus because they had nipped home for a nap after training’ is pretty damning.

It may well be that the players arriving late or finding it funny are on their way out this summer, with reports suggesting one of Mauricio Pochettino’s first tasks when he takes the helm to be trimming the bulging squad.

And it’s claimed ‘more than half-a-dozen players have been pretty open about their desire to go around the training ground’, which can’t be great for moral.

‘Lampard publicly reiterated that the season was not over after the Madrid tie’, and he tried to get that message through to the whole group and in ‘individual chats’, but to no avail.

Lampard appears to have little authority over the group with nothing left to play for, and the report adds that ‘questions were raised by one individual as to why the squad were being asked to undertake extra running drills’.

To which the answer presumably came back: because you’re being paid an extraordinary amount of money.

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