Graham Potter has just had seven days of uninterrupted training with his 32-man squad without Chelsea’s dressing-room door swinging open again and again with another new signing bursting through it.
Potter is in a very different environment to the one he was in at Brighton. Whereas previously he was at a club that targets players with potential — rough diamonds who they can develop into outstanding talents — he’s now at one willing to spend £105million on an Argentinian who had a decent World Cup, such is their desire for immediate success.