Tammy Abraham is an excellent striker and any transfer would be secondary too him. He only need fear himself at Chelsea, not any potential signing.
Chelsea supposedly wants another striker. They have been linked to players such as Timo Werner, Moussa Dembele, Gabigol and more. Some are seemingly starter quality whereas others are very much set to be backups if they arrive.
It is a difficult situation for a club to be in. Having a striker so locked in as a starter that any signing is coming in to ride the bench is a difficult situation. Tammy Abraham has nothing to fear in the transfer market.
That is, except himself. The only player who can possibly unseat Abraham from a starting role is the man he sees in the mirror. The most recent match against Burnley only highlighted that.
It is important to start with the simple fact that Abraham, like many of the youth attackers coming through the Chelsea ranks, can influence a game greatly without ever putting the ball in the net. He seemingly always knows when to come short and when to stay high, when to occupy the center and when to float wide. His movement, not unlike Mason Mount’s, does a great deal of shifting the opponent around for teammates to pounce.
But Abraham likes scoring goals. In fact, he likes it enough to be on pace to score more than Diego Costa did in any season with Chelsea. The tricky bit is that he should be scoring even more than that.
Abraham scored against Burnley. That is good! He also fluffed two easier chances after that denying only himself the hat trick. Now, the game is not built on the goals that are not scored but even Frank Lampard felt the need to comment on it.
Lampard hoped Abraham was upset by the misses and thought he would be. Any striker will always want more goals and that is part of what makes Abraham so deadly. But when the manager makes note of two misses over the actual goal scored, it is a bit of a wake up moment.
A new striker could come into Chelsea and want to play. They would not, at least until Abraham gave Lampard a reason to drop him. A few performances like the one against Burnley may be enough to do it. It surely would not be permanent or lengthy, but the message would be received.
In the grander scheme, it goes back to the team needing to be clinical and have that killer instinct. Both of those traits have been rare in recent years. Abraham has shown he has it at times, but Lampard does not want it just at times. He wants it constantly.
Abraham need not fear the Werner’s, Dembele’s, or Gabigol’s of the world. He need only fear letting himself slip for just a moment. That would be the moment Lampard looks to another striker he can trust.
Abraham has given little reason overall to cause Lampard worries, but only he can keep it that way going forward.