Alan Shearer lays down challenge to in-form Chelsea star: 'There's still a long way to go'

Striker Nicolas Jackson has shown existent signs of betterment this play with 4 goals already but Premier League's grounds marksman believes helium inactive has betterment successful him

Alan Shearer reckons Chelsea’s Nicolas Jackson has shown signs of delivering arsenic a Premier League striker - but inactive has enactment to do.

The guardant joined from Villarreal successful a £35m woody and precocious signed a caller declaration to widen his enactment astatine Stamford Bridge until 2033 - contempt a dilatory commencement to his career.

He scored 14 times successful 34 games during his debut run and was criticised for being excessively wasteful astatine times. But Jackson, 23, has already blasted 4 goals successful conscionable 7 Premier League outings this term.

Shearer said: “Nicolas Jackson is getting amended and improving, but there’s inactive a mode to go. He’s inactive learning, he’s inactive raw, but successful presumption of his ability, there’s tons you tin spot that helium tin enactment astatine to scope the adjacent level.

"The important happening is, helium is improving. He does inactive miss a batch of chances, but that’s going to happen.

"It’s a enactment successful progress, but he’s looking a batch amended erstwhile I comparison him to past season.”

In an interrogation with Betfair, ex-England striker Shearer added: “The 20-goal people indispensable beryllium his target, considering helium managed 14 Premier League goals past season.

“Once he’s done that, and I deliberation helium volition bash that, past the adjacent measurement is to bash it play aft season, which past becomes much hard due to the fact that everyone knows who and what you are.

“That’s erstwhile you find retired if you’re a apical subordinate oregon not if you tin bash it implicit a magnitude of time. There’s quality successful determination and helium volition proceed to get better.”

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