Abramovich Express Readiness To Spend Big This Transfer – Redknapp

Chelsea are splashing the cash this summer transfer window and Jamie Redknapp believes it shows Roman Abramovich is ‘interested’ again.

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Abramovich is rolling back the years with his big spending, which launched Chelsea back to prominence when he first took over.

Timo Werner and Hakim Ziyech have already joined the club with Kai Havertz set to follow suit and a number of other big names, including goalkeeper Jan Oblak, linked.

Redknapp reckons their ambition comes from the drive of manager Frank Lampard as he looks to close the gap to top two Liverpool and Manchester City.

And he says Lampard will have been in close dialogue with Abramovich and club chiefs to outline his ambitions and how they can be achieved.

“Well he’s so driven Frank, he’s been driven throughout his career,” Redknapp said (via Football.London ). “He wants to be a leader, wants to be a winner and that’s what he’s done.

“There’s no doubt at all he’ll be speaking to the owners and I do get the feeling the owner’s interested at the moment.

“The fact they’ve signed Werner, the fact they’ve signed Ziyech, they’re talking about Havertz as well who is a really talented player from Germany, Declan Rice has had a mention as well in the papers.

“So there are a lot of players that Chelsea are getting aligned to. If Frank gets those players in, I still think defensively he will look at that and think we conceded too many goals this year.

“Finding a good goalkeeper is not going to be easy, he made a big decision leaving Kepa Arrizabalaga out and bringing in Caballero who was excellent.

“Frank’s under no illusions, they need to buy players to get to that next level. Man City and Liverpool are still on a different level and that’s why they are so far ahead.

“But slowly they’ve got to bridge that gap, bring in better players, they’ve got the right manager in place.”