Forget Garnacho: Chelsea want to increase £350m spend on attackers with 2 expensive targets | OneFootball

Matt Law’s piece for the Daily Telegraph today is all about Chelsea’s rumoured interest in Alejandro Garnacho, but ultimately he comes to the same conclusion as the rest of us: another wide attacker is the last thing the Blues need.

As Law points out, the club have spent more than £350m on attacking players since January 2023, and have yet to really settle on a front 3. Nicolas Jackson is great but can’t do it all alone. We’ve cycled through many wide options without finding ones that look set to be our present and our future. Jadon Sancho and Pedro Neto were the latest brought in, with the explicit hope they would add more goals and assists to the team.

Well, Neto has one goal and two assists in the Premier League, and Sancho has 2 goals and 4 assists. It’s not a disaster, but it’s not what this team needs to go to the next level either.

Chelsea could bring striker support to help wingers

Benjamin Sesko in action for RB Leipzig. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

All those wide attackers would benefit from another top striker to play off, and the good news is that Law claims Chelsea are still “looking at strikers in case an opportunity presents itself” in the rest of this window. Beyond that, they’re also looking to “line up a deal for the summer.”

Ipswich striker Liam Delap and RB Leipzig’s Benjamin Sesko are named by Law as our top targets – not for the first time.

For our part, we’d far rather see money spent on one of them than on Garnacho, who doesn’t seem like he’d offer much that our current options don’t already offer.

Given we’re also short in central midfield, in need of a top goalkeeper and are about to sell our backup left back, another winger feels far down the list.