Former Arsenal player and English football pundit Paul Merson has urged Chelsea to get a new centre-forward, stating that Nicolas Jackson may not be good enough, just yet.
Merson has also slammed Chelsea’s recent acquisition of youth, and said that the club must sign experienced players if they want to go back to their glory days.
Chelsea have spent an exuberant amount of money in the just concluded summer window. Despite that, the club has nothing to show for it, as we sit in the 14th position in the league table – winning just one game out of six since the beginning of the new campaign.
Paul Merson said: “I don’t think they’re good enough. For all the players they’ve bought, they haven’t bought a team. I hope he [Pochettino] gets the time, but you just don’t know with the owners. I think come January they’ve got to bring in more experience. I don’t think all of them are good enough.
“If you ain’t got a good centre-forward you don’t win nothing. Chelsea haven’t got a centre-forward. I like the kid, I like Jackson, but he’s a young lad. He should have been taken out of the firing line every day of the week by now, but they haven’t got anybody.”