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Thierry Henry believes Chelsea will fail to attract ANY top players this month due to the club's uncertain future.

The Blues are currently 14th in the Premier League, 17 points off the top four, meaning they are unlikely to qualify for next season's Champions League.

Chelsea are also on the lookout for a manager for next season, with interim boss Guus Hiddink set to leave in the summer.

Henry, whose former side Arsenal face Chelsea at the Emirates on Sunday afternoon, also claimed the Blues' continued struggles since Jose Mourinho's sacking are proof that the players are solely to blame for the club's current plight.

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"Clearly, the damage the team has suffered in recent months runs far deeper than anyone realised," Henry wrote in his column for The Sun. And now that they don’t have the manager or the doctor to blame, it’s clearly the players who are responsible for this mess.

"No top player is going to sign for Chelsea during the January window because they don’t know who the manager will be next season or if they will be playing in the Champions League.

"It looks as though they could be signing Alexandre Pato from Corinthians. But if I had the chance to join Chelsea this month, I would sit tight until the summer and wait for some of those questions to be answered."