I feel the belief that we need to replace Olivier Giroud with another striker to be slightly wide of the mark, in my opinion, and I’ll explain why in a moment.
Chelsea look to be losing both Armando Broja and Tammy Abraham as well as Giroud this window, and only signing Romelu Lukaku up top. Many wanted Broja to be a backup and stay in the squad and although that sounds great on paper, it would be awful for his development. Sitting on the bench behind Kai Havertz and Timo Werner rather than playing regularly on loan, not a good plan.
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Also, we don’t even need a third choice striker. Just take a look at the options we have.
Thomas Tuchel will want Kai Havertz and Romelu Lukaku to be in his best Xl, right? So that is two of the three attacking positions he currently plays with occupied before even mentioning Timo Werner, Mason Mount, Callum Hudson-Odoi, Hakim Ziyech, and Christian Pulisic who would all be expecting plenty of game time this summer.
And unless one of those gets sold, we don’t need to sign another striker.
I understand the concerns, and if Lukaku does end up getting an injury, we do still have Havertz, who has actually played some of his best football as a striker with us, Werner, and even false 9 options Ziyech and Pulisic.
The way Tuchel lines his three in attack up is very fluid, they swap and change positions and take it in turns to drop deep or play off the last man, they can ALL play as the central attacker easily enough and they can ALL do a good job there if needed.
If you use another striker in there, you are potentially taking away game time from players like Hudson-Odoi, Pulisic, and Ziyech, and these guys all need minutes.
I get none of them are out and out strikers, and I also would understand completely IF Tuchel decided he wanted to keep Michy Batshuayi in the squad or go and sign another out and out striker instead to bring in, I’d get that. But for me, in my opinion, I just don’t think we need to, due to the reasons above.
werner………pfff
This is so awesome 👏 bravo