Chelsea boss Frank Lampard opens up on

“I think within the squad you try to have standards and levels that you train at, physical work, we gauge every day’s fitness work and the input of the players.

“We try to balance it out to make sure we have every player at their optimum and every player is different in their own way.

“So around a general rule of how we train, whether I talk a lot to the sports science team and they give me clues of what they see, some of it is in my eye and with the staff and then a lot of it is my relationship with the players and speaking to them.

“And I think particularly when you have an experienced player who is such a great professional as Thiago is, that honest conversation is very easy.”