{"id":2741,"date":"2026-05-01T10:28:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:28:51","slug":"juventus-join-chase-to-sign-outcast-chelsea-forward-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=2741","title":{"rendered":"Juventus join chase to sign outcast Chelsea forward Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_65\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Juventus have joined the race to sign Nicolas Jackson from Chelsea and are keen on a loan deal for the forward.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jackson has spent the 2025\/26 campaign on loan at Bayern Munich, who have confirmed the club will not trigger a purchase option in the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The Senegal striker has scored 10 goals in 30 appearances during a season spent largely as support for Harry Kane. Bayern have decided to pursue alternative options this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The player\u2019s agent, Diomansy Kamara, has said Jackson is focused on a successful end to the season with treble-chasing Bayern before a decision is made on his future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNico is having an excellent season with 28 matches played, 10 goals,\u201d he said last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrican champion, German champion and also qualified for the (cup) final. Bayern Munich did not want to activate the buy option, and Nico remains 100% focused on the Champions League semi-final against PSG, a very important moment for him and for the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBayern is a very big institution; the most important thing is to win as many trophies as possible by the end of the season. The future, who can predict it? Trust the process, everything is possible\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Italian giants interested in Nicolas Jackson deal<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Sky Sports are reporting that Juventus and AC Milan are both considering approaches. The former are planning an overhaul at centre-forward, with last summer\u2019s recruits, Jonathan David and Lois Openda, having struggled to make an impact. Dusan Vlahovic is also out of contract and set to leave Turin as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the Serie A sides, there is interest in Jackson from England. Newcastle and Aston Villa have both been linked with approaches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Atletico Madrid vs Arsenal \u2013 Champions League Combined XI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0Remembering Arsenal\u2019s previous Champions League semi-finals<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube | TikTok<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juventus have joined the race to sign Nicolas Jackson from Chelsea and are keen on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","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\/2741","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=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}