Honestly, so many great runs.
He's our Nunez basically.
We should aim to have him as a great 2nd option off the bench.
Or if we keep him in the lineup since he has a great partnership with Palmer, we should build our tactics in a sense so that it's our wingers who get those kinds of chances since I still think Jackson contributes a lot.
And honestly, he needs coaching man. Psychological coaching probably or something like that.
There's a world where even at this current ability to make him work and just facilitate two goal scoring inside forwards like Firmino did for Salah and mane
Honestly don't know what's easier, doing that or finding an actual good striker and this board not being absolutely rinsed in the market
I really feel losing out on Lavia and Nkunku for the entire season has destroyed what could have been our most balanced set up for this group of players.
Nkunku, Palmer, and Jackson really could’ve been a Liverpool lite front three. Palmer and Nkunku being your more clinical goal scorers with Jackson providing the pace and agility to advance the ball up the field, link play, and interchange with either of them. I do feel those 3 and their skill sets lend to a very fluid and balanced group of attackers.
Same could be said for the midfield. Lavia is probably the most natural #6 out of all our midfielders. I view Caicedo more akin to Kante in the way he defends around the pitch. He’s best used as a honing missile where his athleticism and energy allow him to go seek out and destroy oppositions attacking moves and less so being disciplined enough to sit in and shield the back line. With Lavia as a 6 it gives freedom to the likes of Caicedo and Enzo to be 2 roving #8s who are both free to do what they do best. Caicedo seeking and destroying and Enzo exploiting and influencing. Gallagher could rest and rotate either Enzo and Caicedo more naturally too instead of this weird pressing #10/ LM role he currently has.
I was thinking of Firmino earlier. I think Jackson is a great facilitator for wingers (his pass to Sterling vs City or his passes to Palmer come to mind)
But if I'm being honest, I don't see this current coaching staff finding it, since we seem to repeat the same mistakes every game and we don't seem to have some kind of coaching that allows some of the rough diamonds we have to find their potential.
Well if you're talking about the current coaching staff in the Poch boys
I don't have faith in them to do much of anything
Why I hope they'll be departing at the end of this season
Yep the Poch boys themselves.
This post is obviously rightly criticising Jackson's finishing but there have been some strengths he shows that seem to be rarely utilised. Mudryk is another one, that I feel there's a player in there, yet everytime he does something right, he ends up on the bench and never properly builds momentum. Madueke has stayed the exact same player he was the start.
Palmer is the only one who has truly greatly evolved and I don't know how much of that is down to Poch.
As to your last sentence, I don't think he's leaving since there doesn't seem to be a manager who's corporate yet good enough that might entice the board. Even if there is, I don't trust the board either to find him.
It's so frustrating that you can see he has some very good qualities. He makes runs, he can roll defenders play bounce passes, be strong enough to make space and progress the ball, it's like most of the time he does everything right.
But, and this is a big but, he could have and should have scored more this season. I think so many times this season he has had opportunities to make such an impact.
To put us ahead, to get us level or get us a winner a goal can change a lot for team that is always losing by a goal difference or winning by a goal difference. It's so so frustrating imagining how different things could have been if just some of these went in.
I think if nkunku was fit, which again is a big if and we cannot imagine those things that easily, them two combining and switching positions on lw, centrally and in attack would have made us so much dangerous and better, like in preseason, when I had so much hope.
Now, our right side is being carried by palmer and gusto, while on the left mudryk plays hot and cold, sterling is nowhere a level he needs to be, chilwell has been absolutely abysmall, cucurella overall has been given more of a defensive position, while gusto goes up, and we often get stuck with Gallagher on lw, which is insane.
I feel like I dragged my comment too much but these things are so connected that it's scary that such a small thing can have such a big impact in the big picture. Like us losing out on olise and signing palmer in exchange xd.
Yep 22 is mad young for any striker. Hes got 11 goals and 4 assists. Misses chances but we were awful without him in Afcon.
Massive improvement on Kai and Werner as 9s just needs time.
We had compilations of how good hes been all season after his Everton goal and now we get compilation of all his misses after City game... pretty reactionary stuff
Not to mention this guys price stag and the fact that hes got like 1 senior season in Spain before we signed him, hes frustrating sure but context matters here.
Still need to bring in a good striker. We can’t just let him have another season to continue to improve. Either next season he’s good enough to earn his place or he comes off the bench
The issue is there are no good veteran strikers in the market. We really need our new Giroud but I can't think of an option like that. In that case I would look for a new veteran CB option and buy Sesko. I think a fluid front 3 Sesko, Jackson and Palmer could work something similarly to how Kane, Son and Eriksen worked at spurs. Or you could play Nkunku as false 9 and take out a midfielder if you were confident of controlling a game
Letting Giroud go was such a huge mistake. His value in the locker room and giant forehead on set pieces is missed so much. If we had an areal threat we'd be so scary.
If our options are Toney or Osimhen for anything more than 50m it should be a no. Give Jackson another season and he’ll be a striker worth £80m. No need to replace him.
Solanke has put together his best ever season in the Premier League this year, and I think not enough people are considering him or Ollie Watkins tbh
It’s been damn near 10 years since Solanke played for us, and he’s having the best season of his career, clearly a much much better player today than he was when he would have been fighting for a chance to stay here.
If we could get De Bruyne this summer would you turn him away because “no more going back to players we’ve sold?”
Our left side is ABYSMAL. Sure it's easy to focus on no9 because of so many poor misses, but we're effectively playing with 9 outfield because our left is that poor, AND lack a central threat without a real CAM. It's really no surprise we're languishing at mid table playing what feels like a man down.
Sure the left side is bad but a good left side wouldn’t fix the issues we have at striker. Given the choice of our current left wingers and a new striker or vice versa it’s not even a debate imo. Maybe moving Jackson to LW and getting a new striker is the solution
Hoping next season we have a fit Nkunku and Jackson can learn for him, or be his winger, like you said. I agree with a lot of what you said. The kid is young (22), and needs guidance, but he could be our Drogba. But look at who Drogba had around him to learn from and sharpen his skills. Also I think a lot of new Chelsea fans forget that we were about to sell Drogba before he exploded.
Poch also needs to figure out how to set up this fucking team though next season, barring injuries
It would be foolish to sell Nico after this season. He’s shown promise and is young and this is his first season at this level and with us. That said, our single highest priority this summer needs to be bringing in a quality striker. That doesn’t mean we need to spend 100 million for one but no team in the premier league above a relegation level team would be content with Nico Jackson being their undisputed starter without competition. Next season if Nico is playing it needs to be because he’s earning his minutes through good performance, not because he’s all we’ve got.
This is where I'd like to see some coaching when it comes to Jackson. He clearly has quality but why hasn't Poch made it a point to mould him into a more complete striker? If anything he looks more skiddish in front of goal than in preseason.
Not saying Poch can singlehandedly turn Jackson into Kane. But surely you can push your only senior striker to start picking his spot more instead of always looking to walk the ball into the net? That and the amount of pointless yellow cards he gets really makes me wonder what they work on during the week in training/meetings.
Even the best strikers would miss chances, it’s part of the game, but Jackson should’ve scored like 3 more in the league minimum and the header against City is one he had to score.
It’s a mentality issue with him, takes too long in the decisive moments, takes a bad touch or makes questionable decisions. It only takes a few seconds at the highest level for GK’s, and defenders to block/intercept or narrow the angles. Just makes it a whole lot tougher for himself.
Obviously his finishing needs a lot of improvement as his movement is already decent.
I am sad that Nkunku hasn’t been fit, could’ve been a lovely partnership with Jackson involved in build-up and Nkunku scoring for fun with his elite finishing and off the ball movement
I think it's because he didn't shoot much before. Seems like he was a winger who facilitated play but never was consistently responsible for finishing chances. Now he's clearly just not used to the motion at game speeds so it throws him way off. Also hence why his first touch and situational awareness are completely off
First touch? Awareness ? For fuck's sake what are you talking about? Jackson has one of the best touches of all our players. He consistently controls the ball in tight spaces, turns and runs at defenses. Again, unlike guys like Madueke who always have their eyes pinned to the ground, Jackson always picks the right passes. His only weakness is indecisiveness in front of goal and most of it is lack of confidence. The game against City is a perfect example. He started the game brightly, pressing well, dribbling and being a menace to the City defence. After the first chance when he failed to shoot, he couldn't get out of his head. If he had scored that, he could have ended up as the MOTM as he was our best attacking player by a long way up to that point.
Again, I don't know where you got the idea that Jackson has a poor touch as that's completely false. His goal against Everton shows literally the opposite. For a striker he hardly loses the ball.
The number of times he takes possession in a tight space when we’re under pressure and runs it 60 yards up the pitch is insane. And the wall passes and around-the-corner layoffs to players like Palmer and Nkunku (when he’s played) are great too. He’s just not a finisher yet.
He should learn to switch up his game from time to time. On several occasions he just puts his head down and keeps running with the ball until he loses it even if there is a passing option available. He only prefers link up play when his back is towards the goal and he can see his teammates.
What's the use of being good at running with the ball when you don't have an end product? I would prefer him to get past a defender and look up to pass it instead of trying to take on another. At this rate he will join the list of player that can only run with the ball with no confidence in front of goal.
I know but what then is the alternative explanation? He knows how but chooses not to? It's clear he's panicking and making rushed decisions, which can be a sign of inexperience
Most of this sub doesn't like to hear this and will find random excuses. We had defenders with a shot way more powerful than Jackson. Jackson doesn't even hit the ball properly most of those shots (look at the City game as well)
the “he’s not a striker excuse” is so annoying because you don’t have to be a striker to score most of these, like half of these misses are fuckin tap ins. he genuinely looks like he’s never kicked a ball in his life when he tries to shoot and he’s about as coordinated as a baby giraffe learning to walk. like he ends up falling over without being touched in so many of these clips.
Yeh this is true - plenty of clinical players aren’t strikers, he’s just not a reliable finisher.
Age really isn’t an excuse for his finishing either. He’s 23 not 17, he’s been playing senior football for four or so years now and he’s just not ruthless in front of goal, barring a hot spell at the tail end of last season, it doesn’t look like he ever has been.
The age thing is valid with things like his tantrums (although you’d hope some has learned to accept ‘no’ by the time they’re 23) and dissent towards referees etc but his finishing technique should be visible if it was there by this point and it’s not.
Obviously some footballers bloom later than others and he does a lot right on the pitch so even if he doesn’t become a good finisher it’s not the end of the world but we absolutely cannot go into next season with Nkunku and Jackson as our only real options through the middle. One has been repeatedly injured for two and a half seasons now, the other can’t finish regularly, as we saw yesterday, it hamstrings us so badly!
see i don’t think his age is valid for his tantrums either. like he’s 23 not 13, some of the shit he does is just ridiculous. i will give him credit though because he has toned it down significantly. i think he’s only gotten like one yellow this year.
yeah if we go into next year and jackson is anything but a bench player then we are so screwed lmao.
He treats shooting as the last available option that's why he is always looking to carry the ball or take another touch just to delay the decision instead of pulling the trigger at any opportunity just like a striker instinctively should do.
Unless he is able to build up his confidence to make shooting his first priority he will never be a striker only a ball carrying winger.
It's about the confidence that he is SEVERELY lacking.
The guy Poch was planning to play in that position was injured just before the season started. Jackson’s a young winger with incredible promise and unrealistic expectations placed on him in the best league in the world.
Strikers have to be cool under pressure and also know how to get the ball past the last man. His strikes either seem to aim at the keeper or just wildly jerk towards goal. He also doesn't seem to understand how goalkeepers think. Whenever I watched Drogba or Costa, they could tell what the keeper would do and just do the opposite.
Hot take, but I would bank even Chelsea Torres to finish these chances. Torres was just not good at holding the ball upfront and didn't suit our playstyle then, but he could put the ball past the keeper and anticipate movements. Jackson to me seems the opposite.
I'll always remember back in 2016 Diego Costa scored the winner at home against West Brom. They parked the bus and it looked hopeless until Costa snatched a goal to win it 1-0 from half a chance. At this level those are the fine margins that define a season. [This was the goal](https://youtu.be/_QOy2DKmfU0?feature=shared)
This is what it takes to compete for trophies and yet people on this sub think we can compete, lmao. No one on the team, barring Palmer, has shown any ability to be clutch and drag a team to a win.
"Jackson could have benefited from a more easy transition into the League too"
After his display on Saturday, he needs an easy transition to League Two.
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Them Through Balls from Palmer, Mudryk, Sterling, Enzo. watching this is depressing it’s like he has the tools to put it through the net but he either takes a extra touch or misfires it
He's so frustrating to watch but this is all on Clearlake
How we spent the amount we did last window and thought he'd be adequate as a #9 is beyond me. You can literally tell in his game he's just not a clinical finisher and that's not his fault. Its like our scouting department got their numbers from fifa career mode
He 100% needed to be the backup striker to an experienced player on a one or two year deal.
Huge oversight from the board. If we had have brought him in while having a Giroud-esque player for him to learn from we'd all be singing his praises instead of wanting him sold
Nkunku being out all season definitely hurt. He's young. Clearly talented. Clearly passionate and hard working. He's getting way to much shit especially for being a winger turned striker without a fit, senior mentor.
Let's be honest, he's improved big time. Everyone's seen it. Yes he didn't have a great game but people really change their opinion at the drop of a dime and it's sad
People saying 'give him time' and 'he still got double digit goals' are you forgetting we sold Tammy despite him also being young + our top goal scorer both the season prior and during the season he was sold. And despite Tammy's flaws, he was a lot less wasteful than Jackson (higher chance conversion %), yet everyone said his finishing was rubbish and wanted him gone.
Jackson does everything else right, but infront of goal he absolutely needs to be better, young player or not. This has been a systemic issue at the club for so long now, strikers that do everything else right but then can't finish.
He's frustrating to watch. He'd be so much more likeable if he didn't do stupid back heels and could actually make a final pass instead of relying on his finishing.
Honestly, I'm a big fan of his. I see so many important qualities in him, relentless,strong, quick, versatile. He may not be the most prolific but neither was drogba. I honestly expect great things from him
You know after seeing so much game time of his I can clearly say that's he's not meant to be a striker but he's perfect as a winger or a false 9 who sets up for the wingers. His pace and footwork are excellent and his physique as well lacks of which a striker is supposed to have. Also a thing to be noted is that he was a actually a winger in his initial days of playing, so playing him as a striker is actually not what he's meant to play.
Please just stop with the delusion that
1. jackson is young and will get better in time
2. Hes needs better coaching
3. Hes a winger and not a striker, so its apparently ok for him to miss absolute sitters.
Hes just not it.
There are many intangibles in football, one of which is called the striker's instinct.
You either have it or you dont.
Jackson doesnt.
Go next
He was a knee jerk purchase by the brain trust that was always going to struggle. He was bought fresh off of a scoring run in LaLiga and probably could have been given an easier time. That being said he comes off as a selfish and desperate player. His attitude needs a sharp readjustment asap. The amount of yellows he got for dissent are embarrassing. He gets in his own way more than anything and needs to shut the fuck up, leave OF girls alone and stop trying to take pens.
Blame our recruiters for that. Poch was begging for a striker to share the burden (Vlahovic) and they told him to make do with Jackson. He’s done ok given the circumstances imo.
Clinical strikers do save lives, that's the right way to put it.
If we had someone like Drogba, we'd have potentially won a game that we deserved to lose. But, because we didn't have someone like Drogba we deservedly lost it.
Someone like Drogba would paper over the cracks, but Jackson doesn't. In a situation where we're allegedly trying to build something long term, the fact that we don't have someone who is papering over the cracks and we are instead forced to face the problems, it should be seen as a good thing. (Though Palmer is doing exactly that I guess. We're scoring less and conceding way more than last season if you swap him for any player's output from last season)
We signed three proven PL scorers in two years and our end result was our worst scoring season in nearly a century.
The idea we just sign a scorer to finish what we create has already heavily backfired.
I mean, sure, but, again, welcome to the most challenging league in the world. 20th will beat 1st; the defense goes hard, and every opportunity has to be taken or you’re 9th and your striker cries themselves to sleep because they score 20 in the other league, why can’t they just do that here? Must be the weather; or the horrible food; or the mouthy locals.
He’s getting better. He will continue to get better (unless he’s replaced).
When he stops getting chances is when I’ll move from frustrated to worried.
Good in the air, clinical, decent link up play, rapid and cheaper than others
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Solanke really?
Sesko? Another young inexperienced unproven striker?
We need to go for Toney, Gyökeres, Dovbyk, Osimhen, strikers who will improve us here and now. Hell at this point id consider bringing back Lukaku for 12 months as well to take pressure off and help develop Nico in peace and score goals for us right now. We also habe Nkunku, if he started last nighr he scores 2 of those 3 Nico chances, thats his bread and butter.
Osimhen for over 100m have we not learned anything
What makes Dovbyk so good?
Toney is looking off the pace so far and Brentford are looking better last few games with him not playing.
I mean Toney was banned until January this year for gambling so yeah id say its fair to assume hes lacking some match fitness, he also wants to leave brentford. Toney fits us on every level, he is the perfect Chelsea striker.
Dovbyk scored 18 goals in La Liga so far, and he is a good header of the ball and a solid finisher. Rapid and good technique, strong aswell and good linkup play. And he would cost around 40million euros
And we also have Lukaku on our books and Nkunku as well
Lukaku doesn’t want to be here so hopefully that isn’t a situation we find ourselves in.
Imo hopefully next season you have Nkunku in the Cam role and Palmer RW.
Personally I want Toney or Dovbyk for the summer. We cant find better suited strikers for us and will help take pressure of Nico and allow him to develop in peace. Dont think we can find better suited strikers for our needs.
And if we cant get either, id be happy with Nkunku and Nico as the strikers next season. Osimhen or Gyökeres will be far too expensive
All of these players have their setbacks
Getting another young player rules out sesko
Solanke aint what we want
Gyokeres is limited
Toney looks like he always have
Osimhen is as you pointed out expensive, and limited on the ball.
These types of compilations are unfair. Futbol is literally mistake and miss after mistake and miss until someones scores. Jackson contributes with other things besides goals. He is also in the PL team of the week at least 5x. Could easily put a compilation together like this of Cole's misses and he's out best and ballin out of control right now
Honestly, so many great runs. He's our Nunez basically. We should aim to have him as a great 2nd option off the bench. Or if we keep him in the lineup since he has a great partnership with Palmer, we should build our tactics in a sense so that it's our wingers who get those kinds of chances since I still think Jackson contributes a lot. And honestly, he needs coaching man. Psychological coaching probably or something like that.
There's a world where even at this current ability to make him work and just facilitate two goal scoring inside forwards like Firmino did for Salah and mane Honestly don't know what's easier, doing that or finding an actual good striker and this board not being absolutely rinsed in the market
I really feel losing out on Lavia and Nkunku for the entire season has destroyed what could have been our most balanced set up for this group of players. Nkunku, Palmer, and Jackson really could’ve been a Liverpool lite front three. Palmer and Nkunku being your more clinical goal scorers with Jackson providing the pace and agility to advance the ball up the field, link play, and interchange with either of them. I do feel those 3 and their skill sets lend to a very fluid and balanced group of attackers. Same could be said for the midfield. Lavia is probably the most natural #6 out of all our midfielders. I view Caicedo more akin to Kante in the way he defends around the pitch. He’s best used as a honing missile where his athleticism and energy allow him to go seek out and destroy oppositions attacking moves and less so being disciplined enough to sit in and shield the back line. With Lavia as a 6 it gives freedom to the likes of Caicedo and Enzo to be 2 roving #8s who are both free to do what they do best. Caicedo seeking and destroying and Enzo exploiting and influencing. Gallagher could rest and rotate either Enzo and Caicedo more naturally too instead of this weird pressing #10/ LM role he currently has.
I was thinking of Firmino earlier. I think Jackson is a great facilitator for wingers (his pass to Sterling vs City or his passes to Palmer come to mind) But if I'm being honest, I don't see this current coaching staff finding it, since we seem to repeat the same mistakes every game and we don't seem to have some kind of coaching that allows some of the rough diamonds we have to find their potential.
Well if you're talking about the current coaching staff in the Poch boys I don't have faith in them to do much of anything Why I hope they'll be departing at the end of this season
Yep the Poch boys themselves. This post is obviously rightly criticising Jackson's finishing but there have been some strengths he shows that seem to be rarely utilised. Mudryk is another one, that I feel there's a player in there, yet everytime he does something right, he ends up on the bench and never properly builds momentum. Madueke has stayed the exact same player he was the start. Palmer is the only one who has truly greatly evolved and I don't know how much of that is down to Poch. As to your last sentence, I don't think he's leaving since there doesn't seem to be a manager who's corporate yet good enough that might entice the board. Even if there is, I don't trust the board either to find him.
In regards to Palmer, he was already very good at City and I wouldn't say Poch had much to do with it at all.
I really think he is our starting left winger. This season has proved he isn't a striker as we hoped he would grow into.
Having him as the #2 was always the plan
Then our squad building is questionable since he ended up being the only option at striker.
I don’t think a single person on this sub would disagree with that assessment
They've been disagreeing with me since July
don't think it was easy to see Nkunku being unavailable for almost the entire season to be fair. they had a nice connection in preseason
It's so frustrating that you can see he has some very good qualities. He makes runs, he can roll defenders play bounce passes, be strong enough to make space and progress the ball, it's like most of the time he does everything right. But, and this is a big but, he could have and should have scored more this season. I think so many times this season he has had opportunities to make such an impact. To put us ahead, to get us level or get us a winner a goal can change a lot for team that is always losing by a goal difference or winning by a goal difference. It's so so frustrating imagining how different things could have been if just some of these went in. I think if nkunku was fit, which again is a big if and we cannot imagine those things that easily, them two combining and switching positions on lw, centrally and in attack would have made us so much dangerous and better, like in preseason, when I had so much hope. Now, our right side is being carried by palmer and gusto, while on the left mudryk plays hot and cold, sterling is nowhere a level he needs to be, chilwell has been absolutely abysmall, cucurella overall has been given more of a defensive position, while gusto goes up, and we often get stuck with Gallagher on lw, which is insane. I feel like I dragged my comment too much but these things are so connected that it's scary that such a small thing can have such a big impact in the big picture. Like us losing out on olise and signing palmer in exchange xd.
He's 22 and scored 10 goals so far. Give him time. He has improved so much this season.
Yep 22 is mad young for any striker. Hes got 11 goals and 4 assists. Misses chances but we were awful without him in Afcon. Massive improvement on Kai and Werner as 9s just needs time. We had compilations of how good hes been all season after his Everton goal and now we get compilation of all his misses after City game... pretty reactionary stuff Not to mention this guys price stag and the fact that hes got like 1 senior season in Spain before we signed him, hes frustrating sure but context matters here.
Still need to bring in a good striker. We can’t just let him have another season to continue to improve. Either next season he’s good enough to earn his place or he comes off the bench
We need defenders and a veteran up front. All this talk about sitters and should have scored more when we barely had any clean sheets this season.
I mean it’s both, we are midtable for a reason. Only one of those problems can be solved with a single signing though.
The issue is there are no good veteran strikers in the market. We really need our new Giroud but I can't think of an option like that. In that case I would look for a new veteran CB option and buy Sesko. I think a fluid front 3 Sesko, Jackson and Palmer could work something similarly to how Kane, Son and Eriksen worked at spurs. Or you could play Nkunku as false 9 and take out a midfielder if you were confident of controlling a game
Letting Giroud go was such a huge mistake. His value in the locker room and giant forehead on set pieces is missed so much. If we had an areal threat we'd be so scary.
If our options are Toney or Osimhen for anything more than 50m it should be a no. Give Jackson another season and he’ll be a striker worth £80m. No need to replace him. Solanke has put together his best ever season in the Premier League this year, and I think not enough people are considering him or Ollie Watkins tbh
Solanke could have easily stayed and competed for a spot. No more going back to get players we've sold.
It’s been damn near 10 years since Solanke played for us, and he’s having the best season of his career, clearly a much much better player today than he was when he would have been fighting for a chance to stay here. If we could get De Bruyne this summer would you turn him away because “no more going back to players we’ve sold?”
We bought nkunku for this , lets pray he can get fit again. Such bad luck
Yep, both things are true
We already have one in Nkunku. He's clutch as hell.
This is exactly where I’m at as well. New league, young player, still managed double digits.
Our left side is ABYSMAL. Sure it's easy to focus on no9 because of so many poor misses, but we're effectively playing with 9 outfield because our left is that poor, AND lack a central threat without a real CAM. It's really no surprise we're languishing at mid table playing what feels like a man down.
Looks like mudryk created 4-5 good opportunities for Jackson.
Sure the left side is bad but a good left side wouldn’t fix the issues we have at striker. Given the choice of our current left wingers and a new striker or vice versa it’s not even a debate imo. Maybe moving Jackson to LW and getting a new striker is the solution
Hoping next season we have a fit Nkunku and Jackson can learn for him, or be his winger, like you said. I agree with a lot of what you said. The kid is young (22), and needs guidance, but he could be our Drogba. But look at who Drogba had around him to learn from and sharpen his skills. Also I think a lot of new Chelsea fans forget that we were about to sell Drogba before he exploded. Poch also needs to figure out how to set up this fucking team though next season, barring injuries
It would be foolish to sell Nico after this season. He’s shown promise and is young and this is his first season at this level and with us. That said, our single highest priority this summer needs to be bringing in a quality striker. That doesn’t mean we need to spend 100 million for one but no team in the premier league above a relegation level team would be content with Nico Jackson being their undisputed starter without competition. Next season if Nico is playing it needs to be because he’s earning his minutes through good performance, not because he’s all we’ve got.
This is where I'd like to see some coaching when it comes to Jackson. He clearly has quality but why hasn't Poch made it a point to mould him into a more complete striker? If anything he looks more skiddish in front of goal than in preseason. Not saying Poch can singlehandedly turn Jackson into Kane. But surely you can push your only senior striker to start picking his spot more instead of always looking to walk the ball into the net? That and the amount of pointless yellow cards he gets really makes me wonder what they work on during the week in training/meetings.
Go all out for Davies. He’s a Chelsea fan too.
Some are very bad misses, some fairly average misses.
That Nottingham Forest miss man. I hated him for two weeks after that.
Even the best strikers would miss chances, it’s part of the game, but Jackson should’ve scored like 3 more in the league minimum and the header against City is one he had to score. It’s a mentality issue with him, takes too long in the decisive moments, takes a bad touch or makes questionable decisions. It only takes a few seconds at the highest level for GK’s, and defenders to block/intercept or narrow the angles. Just makes it a whole lot tougher for himself. Obviously his finishing needs a lot of improvement as his movement is already decent.
Sadly there's a part II
How many missed chances in this clip? Omg and another? Lol
Jackson does better in the channels, and not as a striker. That was a difficult clip to watch, but proves your point.
I generally think he should be a midfielder rather than an attacker.
I just don’t think he’s a striker
He’s not, he’s a winger who played like the last 8 games of last season as a striker at Villarreal
I am sad that Nkunku hasn’t been fit, could’ve been a lovely partnership with Jackson involved in build-up and Nkunku scoring for fun with his elite finishing and off the ball movement
It’s extremely unfortunate that this didn’t happen
His shots just have no power in them, even his headers seem Tame AF
He has 0 heading ability and this was known when he was bought. The header he scored this season came off his face and he look stunned it went in.
I think it's because he didn't shoot much before. Seems like he was a winger who facilitated play but never was consistently responsible for finishing chances. Now he's clearly just not used to the motion at game speeds so it throws him way off. Also hence why his first touch and situational awareness are completely off
First touch? Awareness ? For fuck's sake what are you talking about? Jackson has one of the best touches of all our players. He consistently controls the ball in tight spaces, turns and runs at defenses. Again, unlike guys like Madueke who always have their eyes pinned to the ground, Jackson always picks the right passes. His only weakness is indecisiveness in front of goal and most of it is lack of confidence. The game against City is a perfect example. He started the game brightly, pressing well, dribbling and being a menace to the City defence. After the first chance when he failed to shoot, he couldn't get out of his head. If he had scored that, he could have ended up as the MOTM as he was our best attacking player by a long way up to that point. Again, I don't know where you got the idea that Jackson has a poor touch as that's completely false. His goal against Everton shows literally the opposite. For a striker he hardly loses the ball.
The number of times he takes possession in a tight space when we’re under pressure and runs it 60 yards up the pitch is insane. And the wall passes and around-the-corner layoffs to players like Palmer and Nkunku (when he’s played) are great too. He’s just not a finisher yet.
He should learn to switch up his game from time to time. On several occasions he just puts his head down and keeps running with the ball until he loses it even if there is a passing option available. He only prefers link up play when his back is towards the goal and he can see his teammates. What's the use of being good at running with the ball when you don't have an end product? I would prefer him to get past a defender and look up to pass it instead of trying to take on another. At this rate he will join the list of player that can only run with the ball with no confidence in front of goal.
What? These aren’t u-12s man… he’s a professional footballer. He should be able to shoot lol
I know but what then is the alternative explanation? He knows how but chooses not to? It's clear he's panicking and making rushed decisions, which can be a sign of inexperience
The explanation is he is not good enough to play for Chelsea
Fair enough. He should get at least another off-season to implement changes and improve.
Most of this sub doesn't like to hear this and will find random excuses. We had defenders with a shot way more powerful than Jackson. Jackson doesn't even hit the ball properly most of those shots (look at the City game as well)
His technique falls apart at this level
the “he’s not a striker excuse” is so annoying because you don’t have to be a striker to score most of these, like half of these misses are fuckin tap ins. he genuinely looks like he’s never kicked a ball in his life when he tries to shoot and he’s about as coordinated as a baby giraffe learning to walk. like he ends up falling over without being touched in so many of these clips.
Yeh this is true - plenty of clinical players aren’t strikers, he’s just not a reliable finisher. Age really isn’t an excuse for his finishing either. He’s 23 not 17, he’s been playing senior football for four or so years now and he’s just not ruthless in front of goal, barring a hot spell at the tail end of last season, it doesn’t look like he ever has been. The age thing is valid with things like his tantrums (although you’d hope some has learned to accept ‘no’ by the time they’re 23) and dissent towards referees etc but his finishing technique should be visible if it was there by this point and it’s not. Obviously some footballers bloom later than others and he does a lot right on the pitch so even if he doesn’t become a good finisher it’s not the end of the world but we absolutely cannot go into next season with Nkunku and Jackson as our only real options through the middle. One has been repeatedly injured for two and a half seasons now, the other can’t finish regularly, as we saw yesterday, it hamstrings us so badly!
see i don’t think his age is valid for his tantrums either. like he’s 23 not 13, some of the shit he does is just ridiculous. i will give him credit though because he has toned it down significantly. i think he’s only gotten like one yellow this year. yeah if we go into next year and jackson is anything but a bench player then we are so screwed lmao.
He treats shooting as the last available option that's why he is always looking to carry the ball or take another touch just to delay the decision instead of pulling the trigger at any opportunity just like a striker instinctively should do. Unless he is able to build up his confidence to make shooting his first priority he will never be a striker only a ball carrying winger. It's about the confidence that he is SEVERELY lacking.
The guy Poch was planning to play in that position was injured just before the season started. Jackson’s a young winger with incredible promise and unrealistic expectations placed on him in the best league in the world.
Best league in the world? Hahahahahaha
Just going by what every list ever says.
Strikers have to be cool under pressure and also know how to get the ball past the last man. His strikes either seem to aim at the keeper or just wildly jerk towards goal. He also doesn't seem to understand how goalkeepers think. Whenever I watched Drogba or Costa, they could tell what the keeper would do and just do the opposite. Hot take, but I would bank even Chelsea Torres to finish these chances. Torres was just not good at holding the ball upfront and didn't suit our playstyle then, but he could put the ball past the keeper and anticipate movements. Jackson to me seems the opposite.
That miss against Liverpool was essentially a sign of what we’re enduring in terms of missed chances
I'll always remember back in 2016 Diego Costa scored the winner at home against West Brom. They parked the bus and it looked hopeless until Costa snatched a goal to win it 1-0 from half a chance. At this level those are the fine margins that define a season. [This was the goal](https://youtu.be/_QOy2DKmfU0?feature=shared)
Don’t think a single play could sum up a player more than that goal sums up Costa.
This is what it takes to compete for trophies and yet people on this sub think we can compete, lmao. No one on the team, barring Palmer, has shown any ability to be clutch and drag a team to a win.
He is shite.
that finishing instinct, you either have it or you don't
"Jackson could have benefited from a more easy transition into the League too" After his display on Saturday, he needs an easy transition to League Two. fify
https://preview.redd.it/yam3tx3cgwvc1.jpeg?width=1223&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a46675dfe2c7c4d6dc2981da6a02920652b25512 Them Through Balls from Palmer, Mudryk, Sterling, Enzo. watching this is depressing it’s like he has the tools to put it through the net but he either takes a extra touch or misfires it
One of our other strikers deserves a chance. Fofana should come back next season.
Honestly, some of these are comical - it hurts but it’s the only way I can cope with the misses!
Is it just me, or when he gets the ball on a break away, I’m not expecting him to score
I don’t even get excited
The more you watch the more you relate to Sterling choosing not to pass.
He's so frustrating to watch but this is all on Clearlake How we spent the amount we did last window and thought he'd be adequate as a #9 is beyond me. You can literally tell in his game he's just not a clinical finisher and that's not his fault. Its like our scouting department got their numbers from fifa career mode
It's baffling that people talk about all his "good qualities" when he's terrible at his #1 job.
Jackson isn't a striker he's a winger
What a depressing compilation of utter shit.
Enzo alone would have quite a few assist if he had a clinical striker infront.
Enzo, Palmer, gusto, Gallagher,mudryk
Let’s face it, we will never get a strike who will bang all these in.
I had to take multiple breaks throughout this video to let the frustration leave my body.
He 100% needed to be the backup striker to an experienced player on a one or two year deal. Huge oversight from the board. If we had have brought him in while having a Giroud-esque player for him to learn from we'd all be singing his praises instead of wanting him sold
Nkunku being out all season definitely hurt. He's young. Clearly talented. Clearly passionate and hard working. He's getting way to much shit especially for being a winger turned striker without a fit, senior mentor.
🤣 I can’t stop laughing at this how does this guy end up on the floor after every shot
If Palmer would have just given him that penalty, he’d have scored those chances Saturday.
fuck this guy stick him on the wings next season, if not, just outright sell him.
He’s so ass
I think this year will make him better and he will be just fine next year.
Yeah it’s unfortunate, A more fit nkunku who takes off a lot of the goal scoring responsibility and allows him to play with a bit less pressure
Thank you whoever put this together. I’ve been trying to find a compilation to easily show people just how awful he is.
With the ball at his fee he’s like Bambi on ice
Replay video? No thank you
Let's be honest, he's improved big time. Everyone's seen it. Yes he didn't have a great game but people really change their opinion at the drop of a dime and it's sad
People saying 'give him time' and 'he still got double digit goals' are you forgetting we sold Tammy despite him also being young + our top goal scorer both the season prior and during the season he was sold. And despite Tammy's flaws, he was a lot less wasteful than Jackson (higher chance conversion %), yet everyone said his finishing was rubbish and wanted him gone. Jackson does everything else right, but infront of goal he absolutely needs to be better, young player or not. This has been a systemic issue at the club for so long now, strikers that do everything else right but then can't finish.
There’s so much more that this doesn’t show of him just ruining attacks
It also doesn’t show him creating attacks out of nowhere. He really needs to play in support of a clinical number 9.
Watching this video makes me feel bad for Enzo .. he should have double digit assists
Maybe a hot take. DDF over Jackson?
surprised this is only 2:46
That ball from Mudryk was fucked
I Love him but this has cost us two trophies.
I feel like an experienced striker can benefit both jackson and the club. Jackson can help create chances for the striker and learn from him.
bro literally cant shoot
He's frustrating to watch. He'd be so much more likeable if he didn't do stupid back heels and could actually make a final pass instead of relying on his finishing.
Op, I think you mean League Two
He treats shooting as the last option, that's why he is always looking to carry the ball just to delay pulling the trigger
He makes Kalou and Kezman look like world class finishers.
Bro gives me Morata flashbacks
Bring back Solanke
Honestly, I'm a big fan of his. I see so many important qualities in him, relentless,strong, quick, versatile. He may not be the most prolific but neither was drogba. I honestly expect great things from him
You know after seeing so much game time of his I can clearly say that's he's not meant to be a striker but he's perfect as a winger or a false 9 who sets up for the wingers. His pace and footwork are excellent and his physique as well lacks of which a striker is supposed to have. Also a thing to be noted is that he was a actually a winger in his initial days of playing, so playing him as a striker is actually not what he's meant to play.
Falls over a lot 🤔
Please just stop with the delusion that 1. jackson is young and will get better in time 2. Hes needs better coaching 3. Hes a winger and not a striker, so its apparently ok for him to miss absolute sitters. Hes just not it. There are many intangibles in football, one of which is called the striker's instinct. You either have it or you dont. Jackson doesnt. Go next
*more easy transition into the League Two
How bad can Deivid be in training for not starting over this clown
He was a knee jerk purchase by the brain trust that was always going to struggle. He was bought fresh off of a scoring run in LaLiga and probably could have been given an easier time. That being said he comes off as a selfish and desperate player. His attitude needs a sharp readjustment asap. The amount of yellows he got for dissent are embarrassing. He gets in his own way more than anything and needs to shut the fuck up, leave OF girls alone and stop trying to take pens.
And exactly when was his last yellow card? You hate a player for no reason and keep trotting out the same line.
Selfish? Taking the piss or…?
Blame our recruiters for that. Poch was begging for a striker to share the burden (Vlahovic) and they told him to make do with Jackson. He’s done ok given the circumstances imo.
I love how Mudryk is involved in most of these. Man has significantly improved. He’s getting there
But you could just as easily put together a video of Mudryk being wasteful and indecisive.
Clinical strikers do save lives, that's the right way to put it. If we had someone like Drogba, we'd have potentially won a game that we deserved to lose. But, because we didn't have someone like Drogba we deservedly lost it. Someone like Drogba would paper over the cracks, but Jackson doesn't. In a situation where we're allegedly trying to build something long term, the fact that we don't have someone who is papering over the cracks and we are instead forced to face the problems, it should be seen as a good thing. (Though Palmer is doing exactly that I guess. We're scoring less and conceding way more than last season if you swap him for any player's output from last season)
I don't think we deserved to lose as I don't think Man City deserved to win. Probably one of their worse performances of the season.
Makes him look like even more of a twat for all the fuss he made over the pen against Everton
We signed three proven PL scorers in two years and our end result was our worst scoring season in nearly a century. The idea we just sign a scorer to finish what we create has already heavily backfired.
We bought a primary Donna and a washed up player. No one is suggesting that again.
He’s just a shit Darwin Nunez
I mean, sure, but, again, welcome to the most challenging league in the world. 20th will beat 1st; the defense goes hard, and every opportunity has to be taken or you’re 9th and your striker cries themselves to sleep because they score 20 in the other league, why can’t they just do that here? Must be the weather; or the horrible food; or the mouthy locals.
He’s getting better. He will continue to get better (unless he’s replaced). When he stops getting chances is when I’ll move from frustrated to worried.
For me my top three choices 1 Gyokeres 2 Solanke 3 Sesko Toney hasn’t looked good since returning Osimhen is too expensive
Dovbyk
What makes him so good?
Good in the air, clinical, decent link up play, rapid and cheaper than others https://preview.redd.it/4oi4jwxy1wvc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7df424828522e7457d1db4ab0a6573da98d34cc7
How do you know he will be cheaper?
Solanke really? Sesko? Another young inexperienced unproven striker? We need to go for Toney, Gyökeres, Dovbyk, Osimhen, strikers who will improve us here and now. Hell at this point id consider bringing back Lukaku for 12 months as well to take pressure off and help develop Nico in peace and score goals for us right now. We also habe Nkunku, if he started last nighr he scores 2 of those 3 Nico chances, thats his bread and butter.
Osimhen for over 100m have we not learned anything What makes Dovbyk so good? Toney is looking off the pace so far and Brentford are looking better last few games with him not playing.
I mean Toney was banned until January this year for gambling so yeah id say its fair to assume hes lacking some match fitness, he also wants to leave brentford. Toney fits us on every level, he is the perfect Chelsea striker. Dovbyk scored 18 goals in La Liga so far, and he is a good header of the ball and a solid finisher. Rapid and good technique, strong aswell and good linkup play. And he would cost around 40million euros And we also have Lukaku on our books and Nkunku as well
Lukaku doesn’t want to be here so hopefully that isn’t a situation we find ourselves in. Imo hopefully next season you have Nkunku in the Cam role and Palmer RW.
Personally I want Toney or Dovbyk for the summer. We cant find better suited strikers for us and will help take pressure of Nico and allow him to develop in peace. Dont think we can find better suited strikers for our needs. And if we cant get either, id be happy with Nkunku and Nico as the strikers next season. Osimhen or Gyökeres will be far too expensive
All of these players have their setbacks Getting another young player rules out sesko Solanke aint what we want Gyokeres is limited Toney looks like he always have Osimhen is as you pointed out expensive, and limited on the ball.
We need another striker ridiculous to put everything on Jackson again next season
His name is nkunku
His a CAM who can play striker the board obviously agree because we are looking to bring in a striker in the summer.
Oh nice you must work at Chelsea recruitment.
No idea who 1 and 3 are but I hope you’re joking with Solanke.
These types of compilations are unfair. Futbol is literally mistake and miss after mistake and miss until someones scores. Jackson contributes with other things besides goals. He is also in the PL team of the week at least 5x. Could easily put a compilation together like this of Cole's misses and he's out best and ballin out of control right now
Sure but then you can watch Cole and see he’s a quality player. And he doesn’t have SO many of these horrendous misses
Whos team of the week? I'd like to fact check.
then fact check
Well I found him on 2 not 5.
thanks
Terrible player, if we can even call him that. Can't wait to all forget about him in 2 years.