Premier League legend Alan Shearer has slammed the Chelsea board over a ‘baffling’ transfer decision.
Chelsea have spent well over £1billion on signings since Todd Boehly’s BlueCo purchased the club from Roman Abramovich in 2022.
Chelsea spent near £300m last summer alone, bringing the likes of Joao Pedro, Alejandro Garnacho and Jamie Gittens to Stamford Bridge.
Despite the incredible spending there stays a lot of glaring weaknesses in a Chelsea team which have slipped to sixth within the Premier League under latest boss Liam Rosenior and exited the Champions League.
Rosenior has swapped between goalkeepers Robert Sanchez and Filip Jorgensen, with neither suggesting they’re at the extent to be Chelsea’s long-term No. 1.
Centre-back has also been an issue position for the Blues and Shearer says it’s ‘baffling’ that those two areas have still not been addressed by Chelsea’s big-spending owners.
‘Chelsea are still looking for a top-class goalkeeper and a top-class centre-half,’ the England legend said on Premier League Productions.
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‘It’s baffling, really, whenever you spend that sum of money, that you simply still haven’t got that.
‘They usually’re being punished for it, the keeper makes a mistake or two, the centre-halves are too easy to play through.
‘Newcastle scored the same goal to the one Everton scored last weekend once they went straight through the center of Chelsea.
‘Chelsea usually are not going to realize what they need while they’re still looking for that.’
Numerous Chelsea’s sales have also been questioned, with the likes of England duo Lewis Hall and Marc Guehi sealing moves away from Stamford Bridge lately.
Ex-Premier League striker Chris Sutton has even questioned Chelsea’s decision to sell Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall given his recent form for Everton.
Chelsea spend £30m to sign Dewsbury-Hall from Leicester City in 2024 however the midfielder only made 13 league appearances before being sold to Everton for £28m last summer.
The 27-year-old has impressed under David Moyes on the Hill Dickinson Stadium, scoring six goals and providing three assists within the Premier League.
‘Take a look at Dewsbury-Hall at Everton, I ponder what Chelsea fans make of that,’ Sutton said on the BBC’s Monday Night Club.
‘I do know Cole Palmer is there but I ponder what they’re pondering once they see his form and his ability in the ultimate third to choose a pass.’
Chelsea enjoyed a promising start under Rosenior, who replaced Enzo Maresca within the Stamford Bridge hot-seat in January, but lost 4 games in a row before the international break.
Rosenior’s side suffered an embarrassing 8-2 aggregate defeat to PSG within the Champions League either side of Premier League defeats to Newcastle and Everton.
Chelsea return to motion next weekend with a favourable FA Cup quarter-final tie against Port Vale, who sit bottom of League One.
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