Chelsea’s players were addressed as a group before training by co-sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart.
The pair sacked Graham Potter in a face-to-face meeting at Cobham just a day earlier and spoke to the players before the interim manager Bruno Saltor took training alongside coach Bjorn Hamberg.
They further explained why they decided to act after briefly speaking to the players on the phone just before the dismissal was made public through Chelsea’s social channels at 8.02pm on Sunday.
Winstanley and Stewart are also in charge of an extensive process to interview at least four candidates to replace Potter.
Julian Nagelsmann, recently sacked by Bayern Munich, and former Tottenham and Paris Saint-Germain manager Mauricio Pochettino are those expected to be contacted.
The Blues may also want to speak to former Spain and Barcelona manager Luis Enrique and Sporting manager Ruben Amorim -- who they’ve had a historic interest in.
The players then did a late afternoon training session and were joined by Wesley Fofana who is expected to be fit to face Liverpool at Stamford Bridge.
Fofana was left out against Aston Villa only as a further precaution in a bid to not take any further chances after he felt tightness in his hamstring.
It forced him to withdraw from France’s squad in March, missing a chance to make his senior debut.
Raheem Sterling also trained and faces a late fitness test to face his former club at Stamford Bridge as Bruno prepares for the match with a large group of players.
Several senior stars are expected to be left out with only Edouard Mendy, Armando Broja and Cesar Azpilicueta now injured.
It follows the squad swelling in size during the January transfer window after the Blues signed seven new players at a combined cost of over £250million.
