Petr Cech has laid it on thick to the Chelsea team at their five-star hotel in Abu Dhabi complete with private beach and spectacular views of the Grand Mosque.
It can all feel a little bit pre-season tour, what with 27-degree heat, the luxurious pool and on-site football pitch.
Cech, Chelsea's technical advisor, won four Premier League titles, three FA Cups and the Champions League for the club yet he does have one regret.
When Chelsea last competed for this trophy in Yokohama in 2012 they lost to Corinthians 1-0. What grated was the sense that the team hadn't fully applied themselves to the mid-season trip squeezed into a hectic winter schedule. It nags away at Cech, according to Mason Mount.
'Petr has spoken a bit in training this week saying that he doesn't have many regrets in his career but one of them was not doing this tournament to the fullest and not winning this competition when he had the chance,' said Mount, ahead of Saturday's final against Brazilian side Palmeiras.
'It only came around once in his career. It may only come around once in my career, so as a group we know how serious we're taking this and how important it is to give it everything these two games to win a major competition that not many win.
'This is a very, very rare competition that you play in. You have to win the Champions League. It doesn't come around very often so.
'That's definitely a message that has hit hard the last couple of days. You don't get this opportunity very often and we have to take it.'
Chelsea have received a boost ahead of the final as manager Thomas Tuchel has joined the squad in Abu Dhabi after recovering form Covid and coming out of his isolation period.
Watching Chelsea struggle in the 1980s, the idea that the club could be world champions would have seemed laughable but Roman Abramovich's 2003 takeover made all things possible.
Mount is a beneficiary of that. For one so young – 23 – he has his fair share of footballing euphoria.
By Saturday night he will have played five major finals in nine months – the FA Cup, the Champions League, Euro 2020, UEFA Super Cup and the World Club Cup.
He will doubtless feature in the League Cup at the end of the month and also played in the 2020 FA Cup final. His record is played five, won two.
'These are the highs and lows of football,' said Mount.
'You go from being at the top of the Champions League to being absolutely devastated and losing a final for your country. The winners' medals obviously take top place on the mantelpiece, the Champions League is definitely No 1. Hopefully this one will be up there.
'You look at the second place ones and think how distraught you were after the game and they bring back that kind of feeling when you look at it.
'I know a lot of players, as soon as they get a second place medal, they throw it to the side but I like having them. They're not in the trophy cabinet. They're in the side. You can use them as motivation. You can use them to remember that feeling you had after the game. That you never want that again.'
