With Chelsea still desperately on the look out for new strikers this summer in order to help take the club to the next level and win a second Uefa Champions League crown, these are the five frontmen who we believe the Blues should try and sign for next season to make that a reality …
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Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint-Germain)
There is usually no smoke without fire, with the noises coming out of the Parc des Princes still suggesting that the prolific Uruguay international is unhappy with life at present in the French capital following his big-money switch to the Parisians last summer, and so who better to sign to fire the Blues to Champions League glory next season than the 27-year-old marksman?
Radamel Falcao (AS Monaco)
The west London club’s head coach Jose Mourinho is known to be a huge admirer of the Colombia goal machine, while both men also currently share the same agent in Jorge Mendes, and despite the forward currently being sidelined with a serious knee-ligament injury which he sustained at the start of the year, the 28-year-old is still expected to have returned to full fitness by the summer, when the Special One should break the bank in order to lure the player to Stamford Bridge.
Christian Benteke (Aston Villa)
If it is an attacker with Premier League experience behind him, then Chelsea could do worse than trying to persuade Aston Villa to part company with their star centre forward at the end of the campaign, as there are few better available options, especially when one considers that the powerful Belgium has managed to net 28 goals in total in just 58 top-flight encounters since first arriving at Villa Park from Genk two years ago.
Luis Suarez (Liverpool)
While the Premier League top scorer may have only recently agreed to put pen to paper on a new bumper long-term deal with the Merseyside giants that keeps the Uruguay attacker at Anfield until June 208, that does not mean that a big-money offer somewhere in the region of £70m from the Blues would not be enough to make the Reds part company with their star man this summer.
Robin van Persie (Manchester United)
Speculation regarding the Netherlands international’s future at Old Trafford has been rife in recent weeks, especially after the player’s meek displays up front for the Premier League champions, prior to Wednesday night’s timely hat-trick against Olympiakos in the Uefa Champions League that is, but there are still huge question marks hanging over the 30-year-old and so the west Londoners should try everything in their power to land the forward this summer.