Chelsea’s largest problem they’ve on the membership proper now isn’t Mauricio Pochettino or some other particular person, it is a matter that has been right here since 2017 and two ownerships have failed to deal with it, up to now.
I’m positive you all know the precise problem I’m speaking about, and that’s Chelsea not having an entire goalscoring quantity 9 who can do all of it.
Nicolas Jackson is copping stick this season and I believe among the criticisms, while being justified at instances, have additionally been harsh. It isn’t Jackson’s fault the membership have nonetheless did not signal a real quantity 9 and have left the burden solely on the shoulders of a younger participant who solely had one season in senior soccer earlier than he arrived right here.
It’s not Jackson’s fault that he’s seen as a pure 9 and being performed there when the truth is he’s finest out extensive or as a second striker. Jackson, like a lot of our gamers, arrived right here uncooked, so there was all the time going to be errors and lots extra creating to do. Jackson’s creating is in entrance of aim together with his ending, which wants to enhance vastly, and quick.
You may see the strain he’s carrying as the one ‘9’ right here on the membership proper now, and that’s what has been affecting him in entrance of aim, his desperation to do properly right here and to step up as the principle man.
Chelsea ought to have signed a brand new striker in one of many final three home windows, however they didn’t. I perceive a couple of lack of alternatives and so on, however you imply to inform me that you just’ve spent nearly £1bn on signing new gamers but you continue to haven’t discovered and purchased in an entire striker to steer the road? That’s been our new house owners largest mistake up to now.
We’ve heard numerous issues like we’re nonetheless listening to, similar to they’ve been counting on gamers to step up, counting on Christopher Nkunku to share the burden, and different such nonsense, and this must cease. Nkunku is NOT a 9.
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We would not have a pure 9 on the membership proper now, with Jackson being the closest to it. Armando Broja is a 9, however he’s clearly being offered this summer season and we additionally failed to switch him in January, leaving Jackson to play each single sport, which is one other huge mistake no matter what you concentrate on Broja’s skill.
But it surely’s not simply the present house owners who’ve failed to deal with this drawback. We haven’t had an entire striker since Diego Costa left in 2017.
Tammy Abraham deserves a shoutout for what he did beneath Frank Lampard once we have been switch banned. He was first rate, however his ranges quickly dropped off and he didn’t step up sufficient and was offered. He wasn’t the man to steer the road.
We then signed Romelu Lukaku who might have been the reply however we forgot about his ego and the way self-obsessed he’s. Thomas Tuchel additionally received it fully confused and noticed him as a ‘back-to-goal’ striker, which in fact Lukaku mentioned he wasn’t. So though the intentions have been there with this signing, it additionally proved to be a giant costly mistake.
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Tuchel was then the person behind bringing in Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, which sadly additionally proved to be a mistake. I might truly see the pondering behind this one although, however once more, it was simply unlucky.
However whether or not fortune comes into it or not, now we have nonetheless did not signal an acceptable striker of the appropriate profile, extra of a trinational striker who’s confirmed, is a goalscorer, can do all of it, is a bodily presence, and has some management expertise and a powerful mentality to have the ability to lead the road for Chelsea.
Once more, I’m not right here to seek out names, that isn’t my job. Some folks at this membership spend a complete 40-hour working week in search of gamers, and also you imply to inform me they couldn’t discover a appropriate striker? Please. Give me that job, and I assure I’ll discover you an acceptable possibility, not even joking.
However not having a confirmed goalscorer up high for Chelsea this season has confirmed to be a expensive mistake, and a catastrophic distinction. I really imagine that if we had an elite striker this season then we’d be difficult for a Champions League end this at a push. I genuinely imagine that.
Mauricio Pochettino and the membership hold pointing in the direction of the information and the xG, and that exhibits we ought to be greater up the league if we took extra possibilities. And I agree, and if we had not made this enormous mistake, we wouldn’t even be speaking about the place we could possibly be and the place the information says we ought to be, as a result of we’d truly be there! Uninterested in listening to about what ifs, once we ought to truly be within the place they hold saying we might or ought to be in.
Similar goes for having a pair extra confirmed gamers on this squad, I really imagine if we had signed a couple of extra of those profiles, we’d be a lot nearer the highest once more. And all of this could be irrelevant of accidents too.
“The signing of one other No.9 was even perhaps anticipated to comply with Nicolas Jackson to Chelsea, which along with a match Christopher Nkunku could have lifted a heavy burden that was positioned upon him,” wrote Scott Trotter of The Every day Mail this week.
“Following Saturday’s defeat, conversations round whether or not an elite striker should be signed returned. It’s understood the membership deliberate to signal a ahead in the summertime until a present participant was in a position to set up they may carry the burden, or a group of gamers might contribute to an elite stage. That query would seem to stay unanswered even with Palmer’s glowing kind.”
Simply deep that assertion and absorb simply how silly that pondering is, truthfully.
We might nonetheless get Europa League this season, however reflecting on the very fact we at the moment are going one other season with out successful a trophy, makes me so pissed off with the errors now we have made in recruitment for this season, as a result of it might have all be so completely different. I genuinely imagine this.
