Just what does a Premiership footballer want for? Not money, fan adulation, fancy cars or swanky homes...hell they even have someone to clean their expensive custom-made boots.
But wait, Kitchen Rat has learnt that Chelsea football club's apprenticeships are missing, literally, mama's cooking.
Yes it's all very exciting being plucked from obscurity and given your own swish London gaff but most of these kids don't know how to fend for themselves or cook.
Onto the field of play has stepped London's Westminster Kingsway College (WKC), which features Jamie Oliver as an alumni, to teach six Chelsea youngsters at a time how to cook, a task that will take place at the kitchen facilities at the club's state-of-the-art training facility in Cobham, Surrey.
Still, a recent scouting visit to Cobham by centre director of the school of Hospitality at WKC, Geoff Booth, highlighted the enormity of the challenge ahead of the college staff when it comes to catering for the cooking tastes of Chelsea's exotically assembled squad, which have previously been described as the United Nations by dint of their diversity.
On his reccy of the training ground and facilities Booth and team bumped into no less than Ashley Cole (England), Arjen Robben (Dutch) and goal-machine Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast), which gives you a taste of the different world cuisines and cooking styles the team's young players will be used to.
No news however on whether Spurs will be learning to cook lasagne .
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