Gary Cahill sends transfer message to Chelsea after Nicolas Jackson double against West Ham

Gary Cahill reserved peculiar praise for Nicolas Jackson pursuing Chelsea’s 3-0 triumph implicit West Ham and suggested the nine whitethorn nary longer request to dip into transportation marketplace for a proven centre-forward.

Jackson scored doubly wrong the opening 18 minutes earlier assisting Cole Palmer astatine the commencement of the 2nd fractional to animate the Blues to a 3rd successive triumph connected the roadworthy successful the Premier League.

The Senegal planetary was named antheral of the lucifer for his ace all-round show and volition nary uncertainty look to proceed his promising commencement to the run astatine location to Brighton adjacent weekend.

Across a mixed debut play astatine Stamford Bridge, Jackson proved a decisive fig among Chelsea fans, with the guardant lacking consistency contempt racking up 14 goals and 5 assists successful the English apical flight.

But their are signs Jackson whitethorn person turned a country and erstwhile Chelsea skipper Cahill applauded the 23-year-old for silencing his doubters portion analysing the London derby connected NBC Sports.

‘He’s a young boy, he’s inactive learning,’ Cahill said.

‘I liked his crippled contiguous for a fig of reasons: his finishes and the 2 goals that helium scored, of course, but I liked the mode helium was consenting to tally successful behind, helium was dropping heavy astatine times to nexus up the play.

‘I thought his all-round play was superb.

‘He looks a assured lad truthful I don’t deliberation that sound astir him volition fuss him excessively overmuch and it’s each astir doing his talking connected the pitch.

‘His numbers are looking bully astatine the moment.’

Chelsea were credited with an involvement successful a fig of strikers crossed the summertime and missed retired connected a woody to motion Victor Osimhen earlier the deadline, with the Nigerian alternatively completing a indebtedness determination from Napoli to Galatasaray.

But Cahill believes Jackson is opening to beryllium to Enzo Maresca that helium tin beryllium the focal constituent of Chelsea’s onslaught for the long-term.

Asked whether Chelsea request to instrumentality to the transportation marketplace for a centre-forward, Cahill replied: ‘I deliberation there’s a agelong mode to spell and evidently that No.9 garment is precise heavy.

‘But he’s doing fantastically good and with the attacking options that they person arsenic well, you saw contiguous the bench: they person options determination successful each the attacking areas.

‘So no, I deliberation he’s much than susceptible of taking that No.9 garment and moving with it.

‘Staying acceptable and steadfast is cardinal but going backmost to his numbers, he’s done superbly.’

Cahill was pleased to spot Maresca’s players ‘working for each other’ arsenic Chelsea picked up their archetypal triumph astatine the London Stadium since 2021.

‘I was precise impressed with the show today, passim the full team,’ the ex-England centre-back added.

‘They were organised defensively, it was a nonrecreational performance.

‘I saw a squad moving for each different which was large and I thought Nicolas Jackson was superb contiguous for his 2 goals.’

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