Antonio Conte has banned his players from consuming pizza, fizzy drinks, tomato ketchup and brown sauce as part of an overhaul of Chelsea’s nutritional and fitness regime. Conte’s players will return to the club’s training ground after three weeks on tour today to discover that all fizzy drinks and sauces have been removed from the staff canteen, while the post-match pizzas that were permitted by previous management regimes have also been discontinued by the new manager.

Conte views nutrition as a key of his training regime and has opted to remove products that he considers to have no dietary benefit to his players. Salt and pepper will remain on the tables at Chelsea’s Cobham headquarters for those players wishing to add extra seasoning to their