Armando Broja can become a fan favourite at Chelsea if he hits double figures. That’s an extraordinary position for a striker to be in at a Champions League club.
Ordinarily, when a striker of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s standing arrives at a club like Chelsea, it’s with at least a degree of fanfare. Social media will be awash with doctored pictures of said new player in club colours with innumerable comments from fans explaining why this guy will score more goals than some fraud playing for a rival, often with hilarious references to how many of that charlatan’s goals come from the penalty spot.
With that fanfare comes desperation for the player to do well – in Aubameyang’s case to score goals – to prevent feelings of regret at having made a mistake in the transfer market and embarrassment at having given them such a build-up.
When it comes to signing strikers, those are feelings Chelsea fans know all too well.
There comes a breaking point, when it’s obvious a new signing just isn’t going to work, at which you give up caring whether they play or not. For £100m man Romelu Lukaku that time came about three months into his return to Chelsea last season, but him openly not giving a shiny sh*t about the club played a big part in that. Usually, high-profile signings are given longer because there’s increased hope, disguised as expectation, that they will come good.
Aubameyang has scored more than a goal every two games in his career and got one every 99 minutes for Barcelona in the second half of last season. Chelsea striker curse aside, there’s no reason why he couldn’t replicate such form at Stamford Bridge. Yet it doesn’t feel as though Blues fans are particularly bothered either way.
Having a big-name signing sitting on the sidelines is usually a cause of great frustration for fans, but having not been particularly enthused by Aubameyang’s arrival in the summer, it feels as though the majority will happily watch their team grow with him a spectator.
That wouldn’t be the case if Thomas Tuchel were still in charge. Given the German boss had pushed to sign Aubameyang, the fans would have wanted to see him use and get the best out of the Gabon international. But there is no such pressure on Graham Potter, who has reportedly taken a shine to an alternative with greater potential than a 33-year-old former Arsenal striker to become a fan favourite.
Reports suggest Armando Broja will lead the line for Chelsea against Crystal…
Click Here to Read the Full Original Article at Football365…