Chelsea legend suggests Tuchel may need to replace summer signing

The new Blues boss hasn’t even been in the dugout for a month yet, but a big transfer decision may already await.

Timo Werner has ‘lost his way’, says Chelsea legend Alan Hudson, who suggests the club may need to replace him with a Didier Drogba-type forward to lead the frontline.

Despite a promising start to his Blues career, Werner’s form has declined. The €53m summer signing has scored only one goal in his last 19 appearances in all competitions since early November.

But while the German has shown flashes of improvement under Thomas Tuchel, the new Chelsea manager may need to look elsewhere in the summer.

“It is weird that Werner started so impressively and has lost his way, for he looked the answer,” Hudson told CaughtOffside.

“It happens. Had he continued in that form we wouldn’t be talking of this, but Chelsea need a number 9 like Tammy Abraham – only a far better model; a throwback to Didier Drogba and Peter Osgood in my day. Big imposing players who could also play, but, more importantly, not be bullied by their opposite number.

“We talk about Erling Haaland, but as we’ve found this is the toughest league in the world, not the best, but the toughest.

“We have seen so many find that out. They come have a couple of good or fair seasons, take the money and go back home, look at Fernando Torres – he was one of the best at Liverpool, fantastic, but at Chelsea was like the Invisible Man. He simply didn’t fit their style.”