Chelsea officials have sent a specialist sports psychologist to France to work with Ashley Cole, who is recuperating from a broken ankle and a split from his wife Cheryl.
The move is believed to have been sanctioned by the club’s owner, Roman Abramovich, after concerns about how the £82,000-a-week defender is coping in a remote sports clinic 800 miles from his Surrey home.
His pop star wife, Cheryl, said she was splitting from Cole 10 days ago. Since then, Cole, 29, has cut an increasingly dejected figure as he has moped around the CERS complex in Capbreton, South West France. He is expected to remain at the centre until Tuesday.
The psychologist was flown out from London on Wednesday night. A spokesman for Chelsea denied that the move was related to player’s marriage split, saying: ‘It is a very normal procedure. We have a duty of care to our players and we regularly send members of our medical team out to help them get fit, especially those undergoing long-term treatment.’
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