If misfortune on this occasion does not prevent him, Nicolas Jackson will make his dream of playing in the Premier come true in the next few hours.. The footballer will sign for Chelsea after the agreement between the London club and Villarreal is almost total and that the La Plana club admits the closeness of the agreement and refers to the classic “fringes”. The amount of his transfer, still unconfirmed by the entities, will exceed 35 million euros
In this way, and after seeing how an untimely injury knocked down his medical check-up and consequent transfer to Bournemouth in the winter market, the young Senegalese striker will reach a club with greater prestige and potential such as Chelsea.. And it is that, despite the bad season of the “blues”, which have been left out of the European squares, they aim to be once again one of the great entertainers of the market.
It should be remembered that Chelsea was the team that spent the most worldwide on transfers last season after the arrival of the American Todd Boehly. After buying the club from Roman Abramovich for 5,000 million euros, in what was the largest acquisition of a football club in history, he did not hesitate to invest 460 million in 14 footballers.
Jackson arrived at Villarreal in the summer of 2019 from Senegalese Casa Sports in exchange for a very affordable amount and with just turned 18. After going through different ranks of yellow youth football and a loan to Mirands, he debuted in the first team at the hands of Unai Emery during the 21/22 season, consolidating himself in the latter as a player in the first team His spectacular final stretch of the championship It has allowed him to make the leap to one of the greats in Europe.
