Chelsea next transfer is clear after player “ragdolled” by striker claims former scout

Chelsea need to buy yet another central defender, a former Premier League scout has claimed today when looking at our defeat at the weekend.

Chelsea were beaten by Sunderland on Sunday, and while the referee was a problem, a far bigger issue for Chelsea was the way that the Black Cats dominated the Blues’ defence physically.

Former Man U scouts Mick Brown noted the name thing in his commentary on the game, and claimed it was so bad that transfer action was needed.

“Brian Brobbey caused no end of problems for those Chelsea centre-backs at the weekend,” Brown told Football Insider.

“He exposed a major weakness in that team, one that they’ve known about for a while, that they don’t really have that fight and grit in their back line that they desperately need. Brobbey ragdolled [Levi] Colwill more than once, it was like men against boys, and for a team with Chelsea’s aspirations, you can’t afford to be put in a nightmare situation like that.

“As I said, we’ve been saying for a while that Chelsea need new centre-backs, and that has finally been made clear, so they’re going to be stepping up those transfer plans. It has to be a priority for them because it’s such a weakness in that team, and they’re never going to have success with defenders who constantly get bullied by strikers.”

Well, if you’ve forgotten, Chelsea went out and bought a really physical, Premier League experienced centre back this summer. But Maxence Lacroix is injured and didn’t play this game.

Chelsea have been linked with interest in Martin Zubimendi, the Arsenal midfielder currently out of favour at the Emirates.

Chelsea are now 10 games into the Xabi Alonso era, and some fans and pundits are starting to get upset about a lack of progress.