Chelsea ‘could do with’ having £50 million rated Upamecano at the back, Lamps told

Chelsea “could do with” having RB Leipzig centre-back Dayot Upamecano in their back-line, according to former Blues defender Jason Cundy.

Upamecano has earned huge praise since this season with the German outfit and his performances over the past few seasons have got many top clubs interested in a possible summer transfer deal.

We are one club that are in dire need of adding to the back-line over the next few windows, especially as they had one of the worst defences out of the top ten sides in the Premier League last season, and Cundy believes he would be a good signing for us, who are in the market for defenders this summer.

“Largely, you look at the two squads, they went into [the quarter-final] as second-favourites, especially losing Timo Werner as well,” Cundy said on talkSPORT.

“You’ve got some big names, some household names in football in the Atleti team but I have to say, the boy at the back, Upamecano, what a performance.

“I was looking at him thinking, as the game was developing, ‘this was the first time I’ve had a close look at your game’ and I was watching him and he was just immense.

“I was thinking: ‘Chelsea could do with him’.

“He’s 21 years of age, it’s the best performance I’ve seen of a young centre-half in a very, very long time.”

Upamecano is a very good player that we would love to see arrive here, simply because he is proven at the top level and looks like a defender that could be as good as Virgil Van Dijk.

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