Mauricio Pochettino will start pre-season with four goalkeeper coaches, with Chelsea yet to confirm how many of Graham Potter’s old staff he will be asked to work with.
New head coach Pochettino started work at Chelsea on Monday and will start to welcome players back for pre-season training on Tuesday.
Pochettino was pictured by club media greeting his tight-knit group of staff, assistant head coach Jesus Perez, goalkeeper coach Toni Jiminez and coach Miguel D’Agostino, while the Argentine’s son Sebastiano will also be part of the backroom team.
But Pochettino may have to work with some of the staff who Potter left behind, when he was sacked in April.
Potter’s trusted goalkeeper coach Ben Roberts is expected to start pre-season with Chelsea as one of four goalkeeper coaches, along with Jiminez, Hilario and James Russell.
All four men are listed among Chelsea’s first-team staff on the club website, although it is expected that Roberts could assume a new role that is broader than just the first team, while Russell is described as ‘assistant goalkeeper coach’.
It means that Chelsea currently have more goalkeeper coaches than first-team goalkeepers after Edouard Mendy completed his move to Saudi Arabia.
Kepa Arrizabalaga, Marcus Bettinelli and 19-year-old Gabriel Slonina are currently listed as Chelsea’s first-team goalkeepers, although the club could sign a new stopper ahead of next season.
Other than Roberts, Chelsea expected Macaulay, who was Potter’s personal recruitment specialist, to remain at the club through pre-season.
Macaulay specializes in using data as part of his scouting and recruitment responsibilities and worked as a performance analyst with Potter at Ostersund, Swansea City and Brighton.
Chelsea have two sporting directors, Laurece Stewart and Paul Winstanley, as well as co-director of recruitment Joe Shields and technical director Christopher Vivell, who all work on recruitment. Andy Cousins is also expected to join the scouting and recruitment team.
Mystery surrounds the future of Bruno Saltor, who was asked to take charge of the Liverpool game after Potter was sacked before not resurfacing for the remainder of last season after Frank Lampard took caretaker charge.
Bruno is still listed as an assistant coach on Chelsea’s staff roster, but the club is yet to confirm whether or not he will work as part of Pochettino’s team and the same goes for Bjorn Hamberg, who is another coach who moved to Stamford Bridge from Brighton with Potter.
Potter is out of work after being sacked by Chelsea and there is currently little prospect of him returning to management before the start of the next season.
Telegraph Sport understands that Chelsea are no longer working with Gilbert Enoka, the metal skills coach who works with the New Zealand rugby team and was employed on a short-term consultancy basis for a period of last season.
Chelsea have re-hired doctor Chris Hughes, who worked at the club for five years before moving to Tottenham Hotspur to work with Pochettino. The Blues will hope that his arrival will help limit the number of injuries of next season and bring some stability to the medical department that has gone through a huge period of upheaval over the past 12 months.
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