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Luke Thrower

Kylian Mbappe sends Chelsea clear scouting mission as Todd Boehly eyes summer striker transfer

Despite Chelsea's new owners Boehly-Clearlake spending over half-a-billion-pounds in the transfer windows since their arrival, the Blues still lack in one key area: centre-forward. It's a familiar story for Chelsea's managers and fans alike, who are still trying to battle towards landing a striker that will consistently find the back of the net.

Naturally the side aren't unique in that facet as very few teams aren't looking for that 20-goal per season forward - Manchester City perhaps the exception to that rule. There were many attempts to solve the issues as Alvaro Morata, Timo Werner and Romelu Lukaku all came for big fees but the trio left in similar regards.

For Graham Potter, the way to address the issue has been through attacking as a team, saying in February: "We’ve tried to address the goalscoring problem in terms of helping the team attack better. You can zoom into one position but teams in the past four or five years have won the Premier League without a recognised centre-forward, arguably.

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