{"id":18853,"date":"2026-07-19T14:07:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T14:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=18853"},"modified":"2026-07-19T14:07:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T14:07:45","slug":"emery-targets-nicolas-jackson-reunion-as-aston-villa-bank-117m-from-morgan-rogers-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=18853","title":{"rendered":"Emery targets Nicolas Jackson reunion as Aston Villa bank \u00a3117m from Morgan Rogers sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-blocks\">\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\"><b>Aston Villa are weighing up a move for Nicolas Jackson as the club prepare to receive a record fee for Morgan Rogers.<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Aston Villa have accepted a \u00a3117m offer for Rogers from Chelsea, in a transfer that will make the 23-year-old the most expensive English footballer of all time.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Rogers&#8217; exit is another blow to Unai Emery as Villa prepare to return to the Champions League next season, following Youri Tielemans&#8217; move to Manchester United. However, the record fee will allow Villa to reinvest, with Jackson in their sights.<\/div>\n<p>The 25-year-old has returned to Chelsea after spending last season on loan at Bayern Munich. Jackson scored 11 goals in 34 games as Bayern won a German double, but the Bundesliga side opted against making the transfer permanent.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are now assessing Jackson&#8217;s future, following a change in head coach at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">According to Fabrizio Romano, Aston Villa have internally discussed an approach for Jackson, with Emery having worked with the Senegal international at former club Villarreal. Emery is a big fan of the forward, who can also operate from the left-hand side.<\/div>\n<p>Villa are also understood to be monitoring West Ham winger Crysencio Summerville and Everton&#8217;s Iliman Ndiaye as the club look to reinvest their imminent windfall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa are weighing up a move for Nicolas Jackson as the club prepare to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}