Chelsea's cursed number 9 shirt, Aubameyang 'chilled' and lost sleep 4
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will wear the cursed number 9 shirt at Chelsea, after the Gabonese player moved to the West London giants.
Former Arsenal striker Aubameyang completed a deadline-day transfer to The Blues from Barcelona for £12 million with Marcos Alonso leaving in the opposite direction.
Aubameyang then showed off his number 9 shirt on his Chelsea debut.
Below are some players who had failed careers wearing the number 9 shirt at Chelsea Club.
Players wearing the number 9 shirt at Chelsea.
Lukaku joined Chelsea for a blockbuster fee of £97.5 million.
Lukaku makes his Chelsea debut.
Lukaku only scored 15 goals in 44 matches, before being loaned to Inter Milan this summer.
In 1999, Sutton moved to Chelsea from Blackburn for £10 million.
Chris Sutton makes his Chelsea debut.
However, in his first season at Chelsea, Sutton showed a dull face, scoring only one goal in 39 matches.
Mateja Kezman joined Chelsea from PSV for 6 million pounds. He showed disastrous performance when after 25 matches Kezman only scored 4 goals.
Mateja Kezman only played for Chelsea for one season.
In 2006, Chelsea gave Dutch defender Boulahrouz the number 9 shirt, following his £9 million move from Hamburg.
Mourinho recruited Khalid Boulahrouz in 2006. Photo: Internet.
With the nickname ‘The Cannibal’, he was unable to compete for an official position with the duo John Terry and Ricardo Carvalho.
The former Arsenal academy player is a strange signing for the Blues.
Steve Sidwell makes his Chelsea debut.
But that season, Sidwell did not play well as his performance dropped miserably, only appearing in 25 matches before being sold to Aston Villa.
A contract worth 4 million pounds for the young Argentine player, but that season did not show much when Santo only made 16 appearances without scoring any goals.
Franco Di Santo failed for Chelsea.
Chelsea fans have always argued that Torres’ goal against Barcelona at the Nou Camp to seal a place in the 2012 Champions League final was worth the £50m transfer fee.
Before joining Chelsea, Torres played for Liverpool, scoring 81 goals in 142 matches in 4 years at Anfield.
Torres joined Chelsea for a record fee in 2011. Photo: Internet.
However, with 45 goals in 172 matches for the Blues, it is considered a failure for Elnino.
After a disastrous season at Manchester United, Chelsea took a gamble when recruiting Falcao.
After a disastrous season at Manchester United, Chelsea took a gamble when recruiting Falcao.
But it was actually a failed gamble when he only scored 1 goal in 12 matches at the Blues.
A huge fee for recruiting Spanish striker Morata, who came to Chelsea in 2017 for £60 million.
Morata makes his Chelsea debut.
Chelsea fans had a lot of expectations after Morata scored 15 goals in his first season.
After that, Morata moved to Atletico Madrid to play.
It was Maurizio Sarri’s dream contract – and a striker whose goalscoring ability he knew how to develop when he coached Higuain at Napoli.
Higuain failed miserably while playing for Chelsea.
The Argentine striker, in 3 years with Napoli, scored 91 goals in 146 matches. But when he moved to Chelsea, his career seemed to be over when he only scored 5 goals in 19 matches.
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