Since the final day of the 2021/22 campaign, we have been trying to dissect the flaws in Chelsea's attack. One of those was Romelu Lukaku, a £97m headache that has at least been frozen for a year with his loan back to Inter Milan.
Then the debate arose over how much of Chelsea's shortcomings in the final third rested on the shoulders of the players or Thomas Tuchel. A nuanced take would be to ascribe responsibility to both parties, the failure in ruthless finishing from a profligate attack and a system that tries to avoid risk and maintain ultimate control.
The first part of trying to resolve this issue comes in the form of Raheem Sterling, the first major men's signing of the Todd Boehly/Clearlake era.
