Manchester United goalkeeper Lee Grant has taken aim at some of his former teammates at Burnley.
The 38-year-old goalkeeper, who played at Turf Moor between 2010 and 2013, provided a fascinating insight into manager Sean Dyche's methods to rid the dressing room of bad influences.
Players were asked to write down the number of team-mates they believed had the potential to stir up negativity, according to Grant, with Dyche then aiming to uncover their identities and sell them.
Grant told The Athletic: "One of the first things Sean did was hand each of us a sheet of paper.
"He said he wanted to know from every player, anonymously, how many players there were in the dressing room who were… not snakes, perhaps, but capable of damaging the team spirit because they had a toxic attitude.
"'How many players have I got who are going to be a negative influence?' he said. 'I don't want their names, just the number. Then leave the rest to me'.
"We all wrote down a number - some of the lads might have said one, some might have said 10 - and then he collected them in.
"He came back with the average score and said, 'Right, I think there are two lads in here who are poisonous to the group and now it's my job to find out who they are and weed them out'.
"And, as you can imagine, Sean didn't waste much time on that front. It was a huge thing for him not to have that negativity in the dressing room."
