New Chelsea signing Edouard Mendy is highly-influential and highly-rated by club legend Petr Cech, reports the TalkSport website.
Frank Lampard has been able to spend some serious money this transfer window that has brought in players like Timo Werner, Hakim Ziyech, Kai Havertz, Ben Chilwell and Thiago Silva in order to help close the gap on Liverpool and Manchester City.
But one area that Lampard was desperate to improve was the stopper area, as Kepa is looking like a goalkeeper that is struggling for confidence and unable to cope with the pressure that has been placed on his head in recent months.
Step in the rumours that Chelsea were keen on Mendy, the Rennes stopper that has been watched by the Chelsea scouts for more than a year now and the man that will add experience to the Blues side.
He will not be heading to the club for cheap, as that £22 million is still alot of money to pay, while his £150,000-a-week wages will make him one of the highest earners at the club and the Premier League.
The reports suggest Chelsea were told to sign him by legendary glovesman Petr Cech, who now works as a technical and performance adviser for the club he served as a player for eleven years.
He is hailed as the clubs greatest ever stopper, so there is no-one more trusted by Lampard to make the decision about who to sign in order to help improve the stopper area and hand Kepa a real challenge.
Mendy is not the elite stopper that the fans would have liked to see arrive this transfer window, but he is a player that is welcomed by the fans, and will surely be looking to impress from the minute he steps onto that pitch as a Chelsea player for the very first time.