NEW: Sources confirm Chelsea star now set to leave, trio of Premier League clubs on alert
EXCLUSIVE - this saga is nearing its conclusion...
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Chelsea will have a big decision to make on one of their forgotten players, following a loan move this season which hasn’t worked out.
Speaking to well-connected sources close to the agents industry, I’m told that Nicolas Jackson is not in Bayern Munich’s long-term plans after a lack of impact at the Allianz Arena this season.
Bayern took Jackson on loan from Chelsea, but now seem to have decided against signing him permanently, meaning the Blues misfit will have to head back to Stamford Bridge, albeit probably not for very long.
Nicolas Jackson attracting transfer interest as Bayern stay in doubt
Jackson’s time at Chelsea has also surely come to an end, and it looks like the club have already done their work replacing him by bringing in Liam Delap and Joao Pedro this summer, while Emanuel Emegha is already set to join next term.
This will be an opportunity for Chelsea to make a sale, and my sources suggest there’ll be plenty of options for them to offload the Senegal international.
“Jackson is highly unlikely to stay at Bayern,” one source said. “His loan deal included a 65 million euro mandatory buy option, but it was tied to specific performance milestones which are now almost certainly not going to be met.”
Another told me: “In the Premier League, Aston Villa, Newcastle United, and Everton are closely monitoring Jackson’s situation. Atletico Madrid and Napoli could be two other options to watch out for, and Chelsea will certainly be looking for a buyer.”
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What went wrong for Nicolas Jackson at Chelsea and Bayern?
Jackson looked like an exciting talent when he first joined Chelsea from Villarreal in the summer of 2023, but he hasn’t developed as many would’ve hoped.
Now 24 years of age, Jackson is no longer a youngster, so will need to start performing more consistently if he is to make it at a truly top-level club.
Jackson scored 17 goals in his first season at Chelsea, followed by 13 in his second campaign, but he has just five goals in 18 games so far for Bayern.
An injury to Delap at the start of this season led to Chelsea quickly trying to cancel Jackson’s loan to Bayern, but the player pushed for the move to still go through, and in the end he got his wish and Marc Guiu was recalled from his loan at Sunderland instead.
It’s now anticipated that Jackson will be open to leaving Chelsea for a new challenge next summer.
my add
Those stats quoted above for this season are misleading, as he has 5 goals and 1 assist in only 542 minutes of play
that is a really good rate of return per minute
we would kill to have one of our CFs score at that rate
That works out to a rate of 30 goals and 6 assists in 3,252 minutes
plus he scored 2 more goals for Senegal in 104 total minutes of play (versus Brasil and Kenya)
compare that to Isak
2 goals, 1 assist for Pool in 766 minutes
and no goals, no assists for Sweden this season in 226 minutes
