by YorkshireRoyal99 »
27 Feb 2023 11:09
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Didn’t think they were too bad yesterday, just a real lack of a cutting edge in the box. There’s something there to work with and Chelsea’s scatter approach of firing and hiring managers so far has hardly brought long term success
Must say though, not signing a striker was odd. And seems to be a bit of a recurring theme under Potter who relied on the underperforming Maupay and Welbeck for too long at Brighton
By contrast though, how long do you stick with an underperforming manager for? At least with Arsenal Arteta wasn't making them significantly worse whereas Chelsea are losing their European status altogether at the moment.
Potter's football has always been good between both boxes, but that's been his (and by extension Chelsea's) problem as well, they lack a cutting edge in the box. All good technical and creative players with a real lack of ruthlessness.
I don't think that money spent on Enzo Fernandez was well placed, they didn't really need him. They should have gone with that money to knock on Napoli's door for Victor Osmihen who really does look the real deal.
Possibly, he's obviously a good player though is Fernandez and they might have known ahead of time that Jorginho was leaving and needed someone else in midfield. It does seem a bit strange that they didn't sign a more natural goalscorer, I suppose the clubs' argument will be that they signed Felix who operates up top, like Havertz, and that they should, in theory, have goals spread across their forward thinking players.
You'd imagine there would be enough quality between Havertz, Felix, Mudryk, Madueke, Sterling, Mount, Pulisic, Ziyech etc to get enough goals to win games, even against the big boys. It's only what the likes of Man City and Liverpool have done over the last few seasons up until recently, they've been successful without a recognised natural number 9 that scores goals, but have managed to have goals across various players (Liverpool being a bit more extreme as Salah has generally scored a lot of goals).
