Chelsea will attempt to draw a line under the Ray Wilkins saga early this week.
The Mail on Sunday says the League Managers' Association are expected to announce that they have agreed a compensation payment worth £350,000 for Wilkins, but the fall-out from the saga shows no signs of diminishing.
The club are in danger of losing three successive Premier League games for the first time in 11 years - a defeat at Newcastle today would be their fourth loss in five games - and senior players say the atmosphere in the dressing room now resembles the final days of Jose Mourinho's reign, when the former manager fell out with Roman Abramovich.
Players, united behind Carlo Ancelotti, report there is a sense of 'them and us', the team having to perform in spite of what they see as the ownership's poor decisions.
