THE FUSE

“Any player wants to be playing in a settled dressing room at a settled club,” Barry explained to Midnite. “If you’re in a dressing room that is perhaps slightly toxic, it is hard to go into training and perform every day, it’s not nice. We all know the dressing room is so strong if you get two or three players starting to doubt the manager’s beliefs or his methods, it naturally creeps in. If those few players aren’t happy, they’re not going to be performing at the levels they can if something’s eating away at them, and it can leak into the whole team’s performance. If that was the case at Chelsea it would be affecting the dressing room.”