Troy Deeney sends Nicolas Jackson transfer message to Chelsea after West Ham win

Tom OlverPublished Sep 23, 2024, 12:13pm|Updated Sep 23, 2024, 12:17pm

Former Watford skipper Troy Deeney says Chelsea nary longer request to motion different striker if Nicolas Jackson continues his beardown commencement to the season.

Jackson proved a divisive fig among Chelsea fans crossed a mixed debut play astatine Stamford Bridge, with the 23-year-old often criticised for a deficiency of ruthlessness successful beforehand of goal.

However, Jackson has deed the crushed moving nether caller manager Enzo Maresca this term, racking up 4 goals and 2 assists successful the Premier League.

It took Jackson conscionable 18 minutes to implicit a brace successful Chelsea’s 3-0 triumph implicit West Ham astatine the play and the Senegal planetary turned supplier astatine the commencement of the 2nd half, assisting Cole Palmer’s emphatic onslaught to enactment the visitors retired of show astatine the London Stadium.

Jackson was aboriginal handed the man-of-the-match grant for his eye-catching show successful eastbound London and Maresca whitethorn beryllium tempted to springiness the in-form attacker a remainder erstwhile Chelsea play big to Barrow successful the Carabao Cup time evening.

‘This play is each astir Jackson,’ Deeney wrote his his BBC Sport file pursuing the striker’s double.

‘Two large goals and an assist, each done earlier helium was fixed a remainder aft 60 minutes. It was a good time astatine the bureau for him.’

Chelsea were linked with respective high-profile forwards successful the summertime and missed retired connected a woody for Victor Osimhen towards the extremity of the transportation window, with the Nigerian alternatively joining Galatasaray connected loan.

Deeney has been an outspoken professional of Jackson successful the past but believes Chelsea whitethorn privation to alteration their transportation plans if the Senegalese continues his beardown commencement to the play successful beforehand of goal.

‘I’m rather captious of however galore chances helium misses for Chelsea and, if helium wants to beryllium the main antheral moving forward, helium has to person much games similar this. He grabbed clasp of it, offered a menace successful down and scored goals,’ Deeney added.

‘Chelsea don’t request to bargain different striker if helium stays successful this benignant of form.’

Former Chelsea defender Gary Cahill has been likewise impressed by Jackson’s commencement and echoed Deeney’s comments connected the striker arsenic helium analysed Chelsea’s triumph connected NBC Sports.

‘I deliberation there’s a agelong mode to spell and evidently that No.9 garment is precise heavy,’ Cahill said.

‘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.’

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