But what seemed plain
enough from that Monaco game where Chelsea were simply torn apart by Falcao, Atletico Madrid's Colombia centre forward, was that the summer transfer policy has gravely weakened the team defensively, while the decision to allow the
dreadnought centre forward Didier Drogba to depart, on a free transfer to Shanghai Shenhua, has much diminished the forward line in which Fernando Torres, his form so unpredictable, imposes a radically different and less effective pattern on the attack.