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Chelsea keeper Cech rubbishes Scolari claims over personal coach demands

Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech has rubbished claims from former manager Luiz Felipe Scolari that he demanded his own personal keeper coach.

"I'm disappointed with [Scolari] because never in my life have I had a personal goalkeeping coach," Cech said.

"I've never heard of that happening anywhere. I was really saddened because Christophe (Lollichon) was the goalkeeping coach for the whole first team and even the academy boys who trained with us occasionally. He treated me the same way as he did [Henrique] Hilario or Rhys Taylor. We always started the training together and then we trained with the team. What was said was not true."

Cech was unhappy at an alteration to when the goalkeepers would practise with the rest of the squad and when they would work on their own.

"I always had a huge respect for Mr Scolari and then suddenly in the middle of the season we had a change in the way we trained the goalkeepers," he said.

"It changed the way we could work and I was surprised because the way we had been training was getting results, keeping clean sheets and we had the best defensive record in the league. Then suddenly we had a complete change which I couldn't understand."

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