Luiz Felipe Scolari has cited Arsenal's interest in Salomon Kalou as proof he already has enough depth in his squad.Spurs earned their first Barclays Premier League point of the season with this draw at Stamford Bridge, ending Scolari's perfect start to his career in England.
With Didier Drogba sidelined and Andriy Shevchenko back at AC Milan, the Chelsea manager had Nicolas Anelka as a lone striker, with Kalou coming off the bench.
He revealed Arsene Wenger's interest in taking Kalou to the Emirates Stadium:
"I have Kalou. If you ask Arsene Wenger, he wants Kalou as a centre-forward and Arsene is an intelligent man.
"He wanted Kalou two or three months ago when we started negotiations for some players. I said no.
"If he loves Kalou as a No 9, I try it sometimes. But I have Anelka, Drogba and (Franco) Di Santo.
Despite these comments Chelsea looked to have run out of ideas in midfield as Spurs flooded theirs with five men.
Lampard, Deco and Essien were largely ineffective as pass after pass went astray.
A goal from Belletti, employed in a midfield holding role with Mikel injured, from a low Deco corner opened the scoring for The Blues, but they couldn't kill the game off.
On the stroke of half time a freak deflection fell into the path of the largely redundant Darren Bent and he slotted home for the equaliser.
The second half degenerated into a farce of misplaced passes and unenthusiastic forages forward and in the end The Blues were hanging on for a point.
Thank god we didn't lose our unbeaten home record to this shower, but make no mistake, if we we had been playing a better side we would have done, and if we don't improve it will be sooner rather than later.
Must do better.
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