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Chelsea FC news: Alvaro Morata’s response to critic who said he’s not worth £20m

Despite hitting the ground running in his first season in the Premier League, Alvaro Morata has quickly discovered you can't please everyone.

Following his £60million summer transfer from Real Madrid, the striker has scored seven goals in ten games and set about removing a curse Chelsea's no.9 shirt supposedly had in the process.

Since Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink vacated the number in 2004, the Blues have had a run of not so great options, including Khalid Boulahrouz, Franco Di Santo, Fernando Torres and Radamel Falcao.

“That was one of the first things I was told after turning up here,” Morata explained to Four Four Two, joking that his team-mates begged him not to take the shirt.