It appears that despite Chelsea's big boss Peter Kenyon saying that rich Russian owner Roman Abramovich will not spend in the January transfer window, the coach Luiz Felipe Scolari wants one more striker.
Right now, Nicolas Anelka is the team's only fit centre-forward, and until this season, he wasn't even first-choice.
"I need a striker," said Scolari. "For the game against Arsenal, I I had only Nicolas Anelka. For the Bolton game, I had only Anelka.
"If I had one player more in very good condition, I'd have more options for change sometimes," he explained.
For now, the French forward has done superbly, scoring 13 of the club's 35 league goals, more than one-third all on his own.
But what if he gets injured too? In the past Didier Drogba has been Chelsea's goal-machine but he has spent most of the season out injured and young talent Franco Di Santo is neither ready to spearhead the attack nor fit to play.
In the past, Chelsea has not had much luck buying extra forwards. Drogba has been the only success story.
Everyone surely remembers how Andriy Shevchenko was an RM200 million flop and Claudio Pizarro hardly played before leaving the club.
Even Anelka struggled initially and has been doing well this season thanks to the lack of competition to disrupt his form.
Perhaps if Super Soccer Star Malaysia provided Chelsea with a great attacking talent, then Scolari wouldn't have to beg Abramovich for money to buy strikers in the future.
In two or three years, Big Phil can blood a Malaysian teenage sensation to terrorise opposing defenders.
Find out if we have a Chelsea superstar in the making beginning Jan 7, 8pm, only on RTM2.
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