New Chelsea boss Luiz Felipe Scolari has written to his all his Chelsea stars telling them to report back to Stamford Bridge a week early, and to cut short their holidays, according to reports.

Scolari has written to all players not involved in EURO 2008 and insists that they be ready to start pre-season training at their Cobham training ground on July 7th, reports The Mirror newspaper.

This will come as a surprise to the Chelsea players, who had not planned to return so soon, as they had no manager when they left for their holidays after the sacking of Avram Grant.

Scolari only finished his involvement with Portugal at EURO 2008 last week, but is keen to get to work with the array of Premiership stars at Chelsea.