Germans Kai Havertz (80 million paid to Bayer Leverkusen) and Timo Werner (53 to Leipzig) went the most expensive players acquired by Chelsea last summer, in which the London team was the one that spent the most on reinforcements, a total of 247.2 million euros, ahead of Manchester City (171.8) and FC Barcelona (119). However, the once German cracks also wanted by Barça, They are living very low hours in England, so much so that it is a relief for Koeman that for the moment that tremendous headache is being had by the coach of the ‘blues’.
Werner has only scored 4 goals in the 19 games played in the Premier League; that is, in the middle of the championship and when he arrived amid enormous expectations for his actions in the Bundesliga where he was the second top scorer with 28 targets, which were only surpassed by the 34 scored by the Polish Robert Lewandowski, who finished as the UEFA Best Player of the Year.
In the case of Havertz, Chelsea’s most expensive signing for 2020-21, he achieved 12 goals for Bayer Leverkusen in the 2019-20 season and in his first season with the ‘blues’ he has only scored one so far. The record of the Germans has the hair of Lampard, who needs to reactivate them as soon as possible or he will end up sinking in Stamford Bridge, where patience is already on the limit after the tough defeat last Tuesday against Leicester City, which sent them to eighth place in the classification and three units of West Ham United that accumulates 32 points.
So much is the pressure for investment, which so far seems wasted, that the voices over Lampard’s output are louder than ever. For example, former Tottenham midfielder Jamie O’Hara is one of those who believes that the historic former Chelsea player will be fired despite his legendary status, due to “the fierce nature of the owner of the ‘blues’, Roman Abramovich”, who does not wake up to remove and place trainers. He has done it in the past and will surely continue to do so, it seems a matter of time.
“Timo Werner just doesn’t look like the player he was in Leipzig; he can’t finish, his touch is off and he doesn’t look sharp”added O’Hara, who classified Havertz as a player of the “academy” for his performance so opaque, which Lampard has excused with “adaptation problems”, a little similar – saving distances – to what he goes through Eden Hazard at Real Madrid, although his game has been more diminished by the physical, or what Barcelona lives with the Portuguese kid Francisco Trincalo, who still does not find the tone or represent the posters for which he was signed, or what happens with the Bosnian Miralem Pjanic, who despite his experience does not finish taking flight either.
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Another comparable case, more similar, is that of Luka Jović, who to arrive at Real Madrid with 17 goals for Bundesliga (2019-20) he only scored two in his entire stay in the capital of Spain, until he was banished back to Eintracht Frankfurt, where it seems that it is his place in the world.
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