Chelsea players face a strict diet under the direction of fitness trainer Marcos Álvarez, who even banned salt and pepper at Tottenham.

The Chelsea squad may be saying goodbye to their taste buds for the foreseeable future under their new coaching staff.

The Blues have selected Enzo Maresca with a five year agreementand the Italian became the club's sixth coach following the club's acquisition under Todd Boehly in 2022.

And the 44 years He brought fitness coach Marcos Alvarez to Stamford Bridge from the King Power Stadium after his successful 2023/24 season in which Leicester won the championship.

Although it is understood Blues Although the stars are excited about Maresca's style of play, they may be less enthusiastic about the change in his diet.

Álvarez has earned a reputation as a strict dietitian thanks to his stints working in TottenhamSeville, Parma and Leicester.

According to the Daily TelegraphIt was the 53-year-old who banned salt, pepper, sauces, cakes and fruit juices during his stay in north London.

Meanwhile, he removed fried eggs from the menu in his only Midlands season with the Foxes because they were cooked in butter or oil, which increases the saturated fat content.

It has been stated that under Mauricio PochettinoUnder tutelage, Chelsea players were allowed to eat sweets.

And they were also able to enjoy salt and pepper, as well as juices and table sauces.

But now they could be removed from the menu when those not on international duty this summer return from vacation on the Fourth of July.

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A player very familiar with Alvarez's diet is the co-host of talkSPORT Darren Bentwho worked with the Spaniard when he was part of Juande Ramos' coaching staff at Tottenham between 2007-08.

Even though the team won the League Cup, the club's only silver medal in the last 16 years, he admitted that struggled to cope with insipidity.

took the captain King Ledley to ask for the strict diet to be relaxed, in which some players consumed a cheeky McDonald's on the sly.

Bent revealed: “There was a meat option, a fish option and maybe rice and vegetables, that was it. There was no salt, no pepper… no flavour! There was no crumble either.

“When you train in the morning, you have lunch at the training ground, which is usually not that good, and then you get on a trainer, you get to the hotel and you think: 'I'm a bit tired.' I'm hungry, I can't wait for dinner' and there's only some dry rice…

“There was also dry pasta, a pasta option without sauce. Try eating pasta without sauce…you have to go! Pasta, no sauce, no salt or pepper, not even tomato!

“Dry pasta, dry chicken, simple vegetables… and no crumbs. People tried, people told him: 'Look, Juande, people are fighting…'

“Even our captain, Ledley King, said, 'Listen, boss, we're fighting here, what's up with this food?'”

Before adding: “Honestly, it was hard. The food was really difficult to eat. “It sounds really silly, but honestly, it was really hard.”