Christopher Nkunku best Chelsea position revealed as Mauricio Pochettino faces Arsenal dilemma

Around 12 months go it was first reported that Chelsea were closing in on agreeing a deal to bring Christopher Nkunku to the club. Having spent the summer looking at forwards to make up for the Romelu Lukaku sized gap in the squad as well as prying for more efficiency, Nkunku was a player on their list.

He was coming towards a crossroads of sorts at RB Leipzig with his contract but, like Josko Gvardiol at the time, signed a new deal and extended his stay in Germany. It looked to end all the interest in him coming from around Europe, and there was plenty of that.

Since leaving Paris Saint-Germain in 2019 he has only enhanced his standing as a player and rose to become one of the most feared attackers on the continent.Even in his two years spent as a true first team option in France he was putting up impressive per90 numbers.

As someone coming into his late teens and early 20s he was not being afforded much gametime in a fearsome domestic attack including Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Edinson Cavani or Angel Di Maria at the time but between 2017 and 2019 he still scored seven league goals with two assists — none from the spot — in just 10 starts and less than 1,800 minutes.

It was just a precursor for the output demon he would become in Germany. At a goals and assists rate of 0.57 per90 and 0.39 per90 he was already starting to show what he would become. However, despite the scoring and laying up its still not quite clear what he is.

Nkunku is a hybrid player, someone who during the past six months since his inevitable arrival at Stamford Bridge was clear, has been described as a replacement for Lukaku, a new Eden Hazard-type figure, someone who will be the Dele Alli of this team and slot behind Mauricio Pochettino's striker but