5 top strikers who failed to deliver the goods in Chelsea colours

#3 Claudio Pizarro (2007-2008)

A Bundesliga hero; Pizarro never showed up in the Premier League

The summer of 2007 was one of the strangest transfer windows that Chelsea had had in the Premier League era. That season, the likes of Tal Ben Haim, Pizarro, Steve Sidwell were brought in to reinforce the team that had finished 2nd to Manchester United in the previous season.

The giant Peruvian had been one of Europe's best strikers during his time at German club Werder Bremen where he became the club's record goalscorer and the highest foreign goalscorer in Bundesliga history.

He couldn't transfer his legendary goal-scoring skills to the Premier League in Chelsea colours as he wasn't able to prove himself a suitable backup for Didier Drogba.

His slow-paced style wasn't a good fit for what wasn't a quick Chelsea team under both Mourinho (who was sacked that season) and his replacement; Avram Grant. Given Frank Lampard's penchant for occupying the space strikers normally occupy, Pizarro never showed his true form and only scored twice in 32 games for the Blues.