Lamps opens up and reveals he had to spend this summer to replace this former Chelsea star

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Frank Lampard has revealed Chelsea needed to spend this summer after being unable to replace Eden Hazard last year.

We spent well over £200 million on the likes of Edouard Mendy, Ben Chilwell, Kai Havertz, Hakim Ziyech and Timo Werner in order to bring some more goals and creativity to the side, something that they lost when Hazard left for Real Madrid.

The club were banned from signing players in last summers transfer window and did nothing in the January window, meaning that the club needed a overhaul of players in order to challenge for that Premier League title by the end of the season.

And after seeing the club spend some serious money, Lampard has opened up and revealed just why the club felt the need to get their business done, he was quoted on the SUN: “For me we lost probably the best player in the League. We couldn’t do any business so the work we did was on the pitch last year.

“Teams that are striving to be in and around top six and upwards were spending last year, they were spending again this summer.

“They’ve had the opportunity with the players they bought last year to get them embedded into their teams and we’re dealing with teams above us, which is where we want to get to, where we are aspiring to get to, that have been building their squads for a long time.

“We want to build our squad. We missed two windows and now we come back in and we’ve brought players in with a view to improve us.”

We have spent well and the players that have been signed should help fill the void that was left by the departure of Hazard. And to be honest, the side are more of a team now then they were when the Belgian was at the club.

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