Chelsea legend names one player Lampard must sign this January
Chelsea legend Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has called on his former team-mate Frank Lampard to sign “killer goalscorer” Moussa Dembele.
Blues boss Lampard is desperately searching for a striker in the winter window to help take the scoring burden off Tammy Abraham, who has 12 goals in 20 league matches.
Chelsea have already had a £35million bid rejected by Lyon for 23-year-old Dembele, with the Ligue 1 club even releasing a statement to say the forward will not be sold.
But ex-Blue Hasselbaink – who faced Dembele as QPR boss when the striker was at Fulham – believes the Frenchman is the perfect signing to rival Abraham.
He told The Mail: “Chelsea need to make new signings because you have to keep the rhythm going and just to get some kind of new blood coming through the door.
“It is always good when you make a signing. It gives everybody new energy. Obviously Tammy Abraham is doing really well but he is the only one really who is doing really well.
“Batshuayi is not making a difference. Giroud, I think, he does not really fit in with their plans.
“They need to get a striker in. Moussa Dembele would be a magnificent signing for Chelsea.
“I know Moussa quite well. I faced him when I was QPR manager, he played ever so well and killed my defence.”
Hasselbaink reckons two-time Scottish Premiership winner Dembele has the experience of competing for trophies and importantly knows the London environment after his three years with Fulham.
He added: “He has developed himself extremely well. He went to Celtic and played at a big club where the atmosphere and the pressure is there of winning. You have to win every match.
“Having already tasted that and gone through that pressure, and if Chelsea buy him, he is familiar with that.
“When you are at Chelsea, you have to be able to handle the pressure of winning things and he has shown at Celtic he can do that.
“More importantly, he is a killer. He is a goalscorer. He lives for goals. He scores goals in different ways, with his head, with his feet, left and right.
Reports suggest we have agreed personal terms with 23 year old Lyon Striker Moussa Dembele
Dembele's record since the 15/16 season:
👤 211 games
⚽️ 98 goals
🎯 33 assistsHe's still only 23, Lyon probably wouldn't demand an astronomical fee and he looks decent… #CFC pic.twitter.com/Pb6xlu6PzF
— CFC-Blues (@CFCBlues_com) January 9, 2020
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“He is quick, he is strong, he can still improve, he is still very young. Frank will improve him with Jody Morris, in his combination play, that can be better and improved.
“But what you can’t teach a player is being somewhere at the right time, and he has that a lot.
“Tammy has that as well, but at a big club you have to have a couple of strikers who are really good. You need competition.”