Ex-Chelsea player, Tony Cascarino has confessed that his old club should look at signing RB Leipzig striker Yussuf Poulsen.
Poulsen has performed with Timo Werner back in Leipzig – with the latter thriving alongside the Denmark international and now Cascarino has pointed it out.
Cascarino made a comparison between Michael Owen and Timo Werner, with Chelsea requiring to find Emile Heskey to get the greatest outcome of their underperforming summer signing.
“It’s a tricky one, because I’ve seen a lot of Werner and when he was at Leipzig he played alongside Poulsen who is a big center-forward, and he played off the left of him and thrived,” he told talkSPORT.
“It’s a bit like Michael Owen; Michael Owen without Emile Heskey was never going to be the same player.”
The German forward, Werner entered the Blues for approximately £48million as Lampard has invested massively in his squad forward of this season.
However, he has not performed to the price label, with only eight goals secured in all the competitions and he is currently without a single goal in any of the last 11 presentations.
Werner was even kept out of the home game against Aston Villa on Monday. He came from the bench as a replacement with 18 minutes to go. Still, Chelsea was unable to turn the match to their favour as they failed to score and ended in a 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge.
Though at Leipzig Werner was joined alongside Yussuf Poulsen, who is far better physical performer than Abraham or Giroud and whose whole responsibility was to build space for his strike partner.
The 24-year-old has contributed much of the season playing on the left side of a front three, with Oliver Giroud and Tammy Abraham picked in the centre as they are more suitable at possessing up the ball and carrying their teammates into play.
Werner has never been acknowledged for such techniques, and he starred for RB Leipzig performing the same role on the left of the attack- something that Lampard is trying to do at Chelsea.
