It would not be a summer transfer window if Chelsea was not extremely busy, right?
This summer, the Blues splashed more than 300 million pounds Sterling on nine new senior recruits, including six attackers.
Well, the recent 5-1 demolition of West Ham underlined the attack potential that the side of Enzo Maresca has, but do they have a slight problem in the center-forward, a cobham graduate sold at 34 million pounds sterling could have resolved?
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During the controversial victory of Chelsea 2-0 West London Derby Over Fulham last weekend, Liam Delap hampered the 14th minute due to an injury to the hamstrings, and this had a training effect.
At the same time, Nicolas Jackson was in Bavaria, finalizing a move to Bayern Munich, only for Chelsea to disconnect the movement, although he frozen the Senegalese international since the club World Cup, saying that they could not let him go.
Jackson’s agent Ali Barat published a declaration of anger and, in the end, he finished his move to Bayern, the Bundesliga champions paying outsourcing loan fees of 14 million pounds Sterling, with an obligation of 56.2 million pounds purchase sterling after being agreed.
Instead, the Blues decided to remember Marc Guiu about his loan to Sunderland, the Spaniard having seen only 103 minutes of action for the Black Cats, marking against Huddersfield Town in the EFL Cup, with Chelsea to pay penalty fees, removing one of the shortest loan spells in the history of Premier League.
It remains to be seen how long Delap will really be sidelined, while the return Guiu is far from the guaranteed minutes, given that Maresca in João Pedro, Cole Palmer, Pedro Neto, is the Bêto Willian, Alejandro Garnacho, Jamie Gittens, Tyrique George and others from the choice.
Nevertheless, this whole chaotic and disorderly situation could have been avoided if Chelsea had maintained a graduate of the Cobham Academy once compared to the largest center-center of the club.
The ideal replacement for Liam Delap de Chelsea was sold in 2021
Tammy Abraham joined Chelsea at the age of seven, but certainly had to work hard for his place in the first team of Stamford Bridge.
After loan spells in Bristol City, Swansea City and Aston Villa, scoring 48 goals in 78 appearances in the EFL championship, his breakthrough came once Frank Lampard was appointed director in 2019.
Abraham was the top scorer in Chelsea in 2019/20 with 18 goals, including 15 in the Premier League, before putting 12 the next campaign, part of the team of Thomas Tuchel who won the Champions League against Manchester City in Estádio Do Dragão.
This summer, however, the English international was sold to Roma for 42 million pounds sterling, which makes him the fourth most expensive sale of the Chelsea Academy of Modern Times, behind Mason Mount, Ian Maatsen and Conor Gallagher.
He then scored 27 goals in his first season with the Giallorossi, winning the inaugural League of the conference, before undergoing a break from the previous cross ligament on the last day of the season against Torino, which rather hampered his progress.
Now 27 years old, he spent last season on AC Milan loan, marking ten times for the Rossoneri, two of whom came against Roma in Coppa Italia, before joining Beşiktaş on loan in July.
Well, Abraham took his life in Istanbul, scoring six goals in eight appearances for the Black Eagles, with an average of a goal every 108 minutes, including a hat-trick against Saint-Patrick’s Athletic during a conference league qualifier in Dublin.
To his best, speaking after a victory of the Champions League against Lille, Rio Ferdinand compared Abraham to the biggest striker in Chelsea, affirming that a large part of what he produced was “Didier Drogba-Esque”, praising his “hold-up game” while highlighting his “magnificent touch” and a nice finish for his goal in Fade Pierre Mauroy.
But how do his statistics compare to those of Delap? Discover.
As the table documents, since Delap is only 22 years old, he never scored only 25 senior goals, but to prove himself as a regular scorer, even if she did not go out in the Premier League for a very poor side of Ipswich is a remarkable realization.
Abraham, on the other hand, apart from the campaigns massively destroyed by an injury, has been consistent in front of the goal, reaching the double figures in five of the last seven seasons, in particular by exceeding 25 goals for Aston Villa and the Roma, also making a start of Bel-suiuant the career of Beşiktaş last month.
Thus, while Delap, which has five years younger, clearly has greater potential, Abraham would certainly have proven to be a capable deputy, taking into account their stylistic similarities, both physical penalty presences which like to remain in the width of the region.
Thus, because the Delap as long is on the sidelines, Abraham would have offered the perfect cover.
