Chelsea do not need another striker and here's why!

We are all aware of the stories in the media of late, linking Chelsea with a number of strikers in the game. Being the summer, rumours are always rife, but in the last couple of days it seems as though they have intensified.

I have to be honest, I don’t think we need another striker at the club this season.

We have seen over recent seasons the introduction of rotation within our squad. Look at Didier Drogba for example. Towards the end of last season, with a run of games and big games at that, he found his form and scored important goals.

When he was being chopped and changed from week to week, it was difficult for him to get going. Look at his last couple of seasons at the club. In our double winning season of 2009/10, Drogba played 44 games and scored 37 goals in all competitions. He was the main man here and virtually knew he would be playing week in, week out.

In 2010/2011, he featured in 46 games and scored only 13 times and you have to remember this included the arrival of Fernando Torres at the club and he wasn’t starting every week.

Finally, last season, Drogba featured in 35 games and scored 13 goals, again rotating with Torres.

The case for sticking with a main man is there for all to see and this is the time I really believe that Fernando Torres will really bed in at our club. He has received assurances from Roman Abramovich that he IS the number one now and I am 100% certain that Torres could go onto score 25-30 goals this term.

Obviously, we need to keep him fit, but the reason I believe that we do not need to go after another striker is because we have the raw talents of Danny Sturridge and Romelu Lukaku backing him up and giving Di Matteo other options.

Sturridge wants to play through the middle and I believe he will get his chance, but playing second fiddle to Torres. If we need a game changer, then Sturridge is the man to come on and use his pace to give us something different in that way.

In Lukaku, we have his physical presence up front and he will provide something different to Torres and Sturridge completely.

For me, it seems as though it’s the right time this season to focus on Torres as our main striker and giving the other two the knowledge that they will also feature this season.

Whether or not both of them will be happy being on the bench is another thing, but with Lukaku especially being more involved, this season could provide us with a major breakthrough in the lad’s confidence.

So what do you people think? Am I talking complete nonsense or do I have a point?

KTBFFH