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Chelsea boss Frank Lampard is still without a strong spine to his team despite spending big on Timo Werner and Hakim Ziyech, according to former Manchester United midfielder Owen Hargreaves. Ziyech became Lampard's first signing as Chelsea head coach earlier this summer, agreeing to join from Ajax for £33.3million. Prolific German goalscorer Werner followed shortly after following a superb season for RB Leipzig.
Hargreaves is a fan of both players and says they will add to the quality "ball players" Lampard already has.
However, he still thinks the Chelsea team are a long way off matching the Blues' Premier League title-winning teams of the past.
"I think Timo Werner's a fabulous player and Ziyech, I love him off the right-hand side," Hargreaves said on BT Sport.
"But still when I think back to those great Chelsea teams, I think back to [Petr] Cech in goal, John Terry, [Claude] Makelele, [Didier] Drogba, the spine. Frank doesn't have that yet.
"So [Lampard] might spend a lot of money on these really good players but I think Frank probably wants to see somebody emerge a bit like JT [Terry] and a bit like him.
"That's going to be difficult. I think United need that, I think Chelsea need that, Arsenal need that."
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McGarry said on the Transfer Window podcast: "You would have heard us speak on numerous occasions about Frank Lampard's desire to ramp up his defence and therefore the purchases of Ziyech and of Timo Werner, and the potential arrival of Kai Havertz, do not fulfil the particular roles of augmenting the defence.
"It's our information that Lampard is willing to sell up to four of possibly five of his current defensive players including Kurt Zouma, Andreas Christensen, Emerson and Marcos Alonso."
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