Michy Batshuayi is not the right man to provide back-up for Diego Costa at Chelsea, Ray Wilkins has told Premier League Daily.
The Belgium striker cost £33m in the mid year and has four objectives from the same number of begins taking after his FA Cup strike against Peterborough on Sunday.
Yet, Conte is yet to begin Batshuayi in the Premier League even in Costa's nonattendance, and Sky sources say a swap bargain including Swansea's Fernando Llorente could be on the cards this month.
Wilkins, a previous Chelsea chief and right hand supervisor, watched the forward in real life against Peterborough and gave his decision in the Sky Sports News HQ studio on Monday.
Approached if Batshuayi is sufficient cover for the association's top scorer Costa, he said: "No, as I would like to think.
"Recently when I watched him he resembled a person kept from playing for the primary group, and he was out to awe so gravely. He truly needed to do well – he ran all over the place, his ball control was quite poor when it was played up to him.
"I don't think when you have Costa in the kind of shape he's in, that Batshuayi would be the response to come in.
"When they played Pedro, Willian and Eden Hazard in advance [when Costa was suspended] I was addressing why Conte didn't play Batshuayi as a characteristic striker, and now i can see why he didn't – on the grounds that he doesn't have the control of the ball that alternate players have."
Wilkins additionally scrutinized the 23-year-old's attitude, saying: "When you come into huge clubs it's not just about your footballing capacity, it's the manner by which you handle the mental limit.
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