2: Andriy Shevchenko
After years of trying to lure the brilliant and prolific Ukraine striker from AC Milan to Stamford Bridge, finally the Rossoneri agreed to sell the Blues the world’s most sought-after attacker in the summer of 2006 for a whopping £30.8m, with many experts immediately predicting a period of utter domination by Chelsea following Sheva’s signing.
However, things did not work out quite as everyone had thought they would as the front man struggled badly for both fitness and form in front of goal, and after just nine Premier League goals in his first two seasons at the club, Shevchenko was then loaned back to Milan in the summer of 2008, before then joining his former club Dynamo Kyiv the following year.
1: Adrian Mutu
Yet another in a long line of centre forwards who failed to make the grade at Chelsea following the arrival of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich as the club’s new owner in the summer of 2003, with the Romania international being signed from Serie A outfit Parma that August for £15.8m.
But after the striker had failed a drugs test for cocaine in September 2004, his career at Stamford Bridge was over and Mutu never played for the club again, signing for Juventus in January 2005.
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