There is mainly one position Chelsea need to strengthen badly next summer i.e. of a striker, no points for guessing.
Blues have big names but that of old times such as the likes of Eto’o and Fernando Torres. Their best days are long gone and Chelsea need a world class goal scorer in the next window.
Mourinho still has faith in the current strikers and his priority was to reinforce other departments in winter.
Hence, Matic, Salah and Zouma were signed but in summer, the priority is surely going to be a prolific striker.
Blues are still looking for the next Drogba and will hope to have one before the start of next season.
However, there is one Chelsea player who has been dubbed as the new Drogba, Romelu Lukaku, Blues’s best striker for the past two years but that when playing on loan for West Brom and Everton.
The talent is inevitable but the Belgian international has the habit of opening his mouth for all the wrong reasons, especially this season when he was loaned to Everton
Now Lukaku has lately come up and stated that he wants to play Champions League football but all that depends on one man Jose Mourinho. Lukaku claimed:
“I don’t want to play my first games in the Champions League when I’m 23, I want it now. I have to show now that I’m ready.”
“I still have two years on my contract in Chelsea and I know they’re tracking my evolution. In the end, it’s up to the manager to decide.”
The problem is that Mourinho never likes a player who has a big mouth and Lukaku has talked too much.
For him to play for Chelsea, the Belgian star must shut up, only focus on his game and try to perform at the optimum level.
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Yes. Lukaku is no doubt, a very good player and we understand how really frustrated he is at being loaned out to other clubs, instead of being in the regular 11. He must start learning how to keep his mouth shut tight, for that may eventually be the end of his future playing time with Chelsea. He must emulate what other great players are doing, players like Messi, Ronaldo, Aguerro, Thierry Henry, Ryan Giggs, much established and respected players who prefer to talk less but instead let their legs do the talking. If he is really consistently good and keep on pounding those balls into the net, while still being humble and quiet, I reckon even Mourinho will be giving a second thought before off loading him to other clubs, on a permanent basis.