Source: Daily_Mail
Chelsea players urging Ancelotti to spend as dressing-room fears grow
Concerns are growing in the Chelsea dressing room over manager Carlo Ancelotti's refusal to sign a striker in next month's transfer window. [LNB]Ancelotti has vowed to place faith in youngsters Daniel Sturridge and Fabio Borini while Didier Drogba is on duty for the Ivory Coast at the Africa Cup of Nations and Nicolas Anelka is absent with a hamstring injury.[LNB] Indeed, so confident is Ancelotti that Chelsea can stay top of the pile without their prolific strikers that he has claimed he will run around the training ground naked if he goes back on his word and buys a forward. [LNB] Dependent: Chelsea were reliant on Didier Drogba (left) once again in the tense win over Fulham on Monday, but will now be without the striker for a month[LNB]However, senior members of Chelsea's squad would be only too happy to see their manager in his birthday suit if that means him signing a world-class goalscorer. [LNB]Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is ready to fund a £50million foray into the transfer market, but Ancelotti is adamant that his title favourites can see off champions Manchester United and improving Arsenal without reinforcements. [LNB]Goalkeeper Petr Cech admitted the loss of Drogba -and the rest of Chelsea's African contingent - is a major blow. [LNB]'If your best goalscorer goes away then you always miss him,' said Cech. 'But the same goes for all four of them because Michael Essien is a great player, so is John Mikel Obi and Salomon Kalou is important to us.' [LNB]Michael Ballack, 33, is ready to sign a two-year contract extension at Chelsea after declaring he can still cut it in the Premier League. [LNB]'I can still play the two coming years at the best level for Chelsea,' said Ballack. 'I still have great sporting ambitions.' [LNB] Chelsea boss Ancelotti shrugs off star striker Drogba's month out in AfricaWild Rover: Let me go, says Blackburn early bird Benni McCarthyBallack ready to sign new two-year Chelsea deal despite 2010 quit threatCHELSEA FC
