Chelsea look set to welcome former All Blacks mental skills coach Gilbert Enoka to Stamford Bridge for a short-term consultancy role. Enoka was a key part of New Zealand's back-to-back Rugby World Cup triumphs in 2007 and 2011 and he will now take up his first role in football at Chelsea, according to The Telegraph.
The mental skills coach developed a notable "no-d***heads" policy during his extended tenure with New Zealand and his arrival at Chelsea comes after Graham Potter's squad reached 33 members, with seven brought in last month.
A dressing room that now appears bloated and filled with lots of big characters set for a number of tension-filled moments in the second half of the season has seemingly brought about his arrival, with Todd Boehly also hoping to instil a winning culture in west London.
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The methods of Enoka are well-known in rugby and in a video posted on YouTube, the 57-year-old delved into a number of important topics surrounding elite-level spot.
Speaking to the YouTube channel Keynote Entertainment, and perhaps giving an insight into what he will bring at Chelsea, he said: "Pressure can be your friend or your foe. We've done a lot of work on understanding that it becomes your friend because you know that whenever you feel it you are in that space where great things happen, not good things or average things but great things.
"We want them to have the attitude to say 'bring it on' and we don't want them to turn away from it. We want them to walk towards it because they knew that's got some specialness attached to it.
"We think being vulnerable is a quality that is extremely valued in this environment. If you don't know how to do something or you're not sure what to do or how to do it then you ask someone. It's not a weakness it's absolute strength."
He added: "In business and in sport complacency is a curse. It's a curse because it sneaks up on you because you get people who have been there for a long period of time and they think 'well I've been here ten years, what have you got for me?' This whole sense of entitlement reigns.
"We drive a culture in this environment that where you're at isn't good enough. Where you are at is a place for you to determine where you've got to go. If you've got strong leaders and the culture is great they're the first things to keep pushing you up and keep pushing you forward and then you will be better at managing the times where it can actually seduce you."
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