Chelsea legend John Terry says a demanding senior leadership group was good for the club.

Terry, who returned to Chelsea as a consultant coach in January, insists the likes of Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, Ashley Cole and Petr Cech were not too powerful behind the scenes.

He told Stadium Astro: "No, definitely completely untrue in terms of the players being in charge and making decisions.

"The reasons that we had such success in Chelsea at my time, we always had one man in charge and that was the manager.

"We had such a strong group of players to help that process. If we could help that manager, whether it be talking to him or discussing things with him or helping the process of lots of things before it even gets to him and nips stuff in the bud.

"There was stuff in training that Mourinho never had to do because players didn't accept it.

"If someone wasn't to the level or the standards that we demanded, as Chelsea Football Club, then me, Ash, Frank, Didier, Pete [would tell them].

"If people didn't continue to be at those standards, before the manager even had to say anything, we would nip it in the bud and that's what we big characters in the group would do.

"Even a couple of times, we would go in the dressing room and there would be screaming arguments, we'd be battering each other.

"The manager would come in and go 'you've done my job for me' and he could concentrate on the tactical side.

"They're the little bits where that was what we knew, that was what brought the best out in us and that was what worked for us at the time.

"I'm not saying that would work now, or would work in 10 years' time but that is what worked for us.

"Those stories of us being in charge are completely untrue but we did have a big group."