Chelsea captain John Terry admits he took on a lot of the man-management last season during Avram Grant's reign.
"We had Avram, who was very good, and Steve Clarke and Henk Ten Cate. But we've got such a big squad and it's not just the players who are playing but those who don't play who need to stay motivated.
"That became my job, to speak to those players and sometimes to speak to the manager. Sometimes you have a three-way conversation when the manager would explain why a player wasn't playing.
"If a manager tells you why you're not playing it's easier to deal with it. If a manager isn't telling you why, or how you can improve to get in the team, that becomes frustrating. And that was something I arranged last year.
"Avram got a lot of criticism but he did well. Managers can be good in some departments and weak in others. But we had it out. Everyone spoke to the manager and said where we felt we could improve as a team, how we could improve training and certain things off the pitch, and he listened to them."
