Chelsea have only one world-class player and wants to raise quality to their squad, according to former Arsenal midfielder Stewart Robson.Frank Lampard took Chelsea to fourth place in the Premier League in his first season at Stamford Bridge.not being able to recruit new recruits last summer due to the club’s movement ban.
Lampard has already been busy this summer, with Hakim Ziyech and Timo Werner joining for about a million pounds.
But Robson says there’s still a long way to go for Chelsea to succeed in the grades she needs.
The expert says N’Golo Kante is the most productive player they have so far and believes that quality is added, especially in defense.
“They’re pretty much [where they should be],” Robson told ESPN FC.
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“When Frank Lampard communicates about players of the past, wonderful players of the past, I think now they only have one first-class player, when I talk about a world-class player, it’s Kante in midfield.
“He’s the genuine world-class player they have.
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“They have very smart players, but they have to stop by to buy other players, especially defensively, to move on with Timo Werner, who I think will be a big plus for them, and Ziyech, who will come and play on a wing and be a player who can overtake people.
“But they want better midfielders and better defenders.”
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“[Chelsea’s priority should] be to have a defender, a smart central medium who can only play with the ball and at the same time be a smart defender, whether when balls enter the area and also when reading the danger.
‘That is what the Chelsea defenders did not do well, they did not understand the danger.
“We saw him in the FA Cup final against Arsenal and saw him in both matches against Bayern.”
After leaving the Champions League on Saturday at the hands of Bayern Munich, Lampard admitted that more recruitment was needed.
“Let’s take a look at that [recruitment], because that’s our job, we’re already very attached to that,” Lampard said.
“After the move-in ban [last summer], you feel like you missed what other clubs have spent and improved, and recruitment is an important component of this game.
“Nights like this in the sense of football, they show me a lot, they tell me a lot.
“So now it’s a verbal exchange, the season is over, it’s a very fast response time, so it’s time to see where we can improve, what spaces we can improve.”
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