{"id":7238,"date":"2026-05-11T14:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=7238"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:13:16","slug":"bayern-board-make-decision-on-jackson-despite-kompany-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=7238","title":{"rendered":"Bayern board make decision on Jackson despite Kompany view"},"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>Vincent Kompany is understood to have preferred to keep on-loan Chelsea striker Nicolas Jackson at Bayern Munich, though the club\u2019s board have deemed the transfer too expensive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jackson joined Bayern on loan from Chelsea last summer and has scored 10 goals in all competitions for the German champions.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old has primarily operated as deputy to Harry Kane, where his performances have impressed head coach Kompany.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern have decided against triggering the \u00a370m option to sign the Senegalese striker permanently, with the Bavarians deeming the deal too expensive. That decision comes despite Kompany\u2019s preference to retain his services.<\/p>\n<p>Former Bayern Munich midfielder Lothar Matthaus told Sky that Kompany is \u2018convinced\u2019 by Jackson and \u2018would have liked to keep him in Munich\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKompany is convinced of Jackson\u2019s abilities and would have liked to keep him in Munich, but he\u2019s too expensive. Kompany has made it clear internally that he would like to keep Jackson, but obviously at a certain price that Chelsea might not accept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Premier League Awards: Has VAR handed Arsenal the title?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0Moments that made the Premier League: Chelsea\u2019s final-day victory ushers in the Abramovich era<\/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>Vincent Kompany is understood to have preferred to keep on-loan Chelsea striker Nicolas Jackson at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7238","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\/7238","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=7238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}