{"id":19984,"date":"2026-07-22T10:17:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=19984"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:17:33","slug":"chelsea-slap-65m-price-tag-on-aston-villa-target-nicolas-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=19984","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea slap \u00a365m price tag on Aston Villa target Nicolas Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aston Villa are interested in signing Chelsea forward Nicolas Jackson this summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Blues are willing to sell the 25-year-old but want a \u00a365 million transfer fee, per BBC Sport. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Villa are looking to strengthen their attacking options, with Morgan Rogers poised to make a \u00a3117m move to Chelsea. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finding a replacement for Rogers is not easy, but the Lions believe Jackson could be a good option for them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senegal international mainly plays as a striker but can also operate on either flank. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jackson is not a clinical finisher, but he is highly rated for his blistering pace, work rate and link-up play.\u00a0He has scored 30 goals in 81 appearances for Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senegalese enjoyed a decent loan campaign at Bayern Munich last season, notching 11 goals and four assists in 34 games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bavarians had the option to make the move permanent for \u00a356m, but decided against activating the clause. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chelsea currently have five strikers on their books \u2013 Jackson, Joao Pedro, Liam Delap, Marc Guiu and Emanuel Emegha. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With no Champions League football next season, the club wants to offload some of the centre-forwards. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are also aiming to raise funds to balance their books after committing \u00a3117m to seal a move for Rogers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Stats from Transfermarkt<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa are interested in signing Chelsea forward Nicolas Jackson this summer. The Blues are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19984","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\/19984","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=19984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}