Chelsea likely to re-negotiate striker transfer next summer despite hope over loan clause | OneFootball

The biggest transfer story of the summer at Chelsea ended up being Nicolas Jackson.

The Senegal star had a tumultuous move to Bayern Munich eventually go through on deadline day, after it looked close to falling apart. The fallout didn’t end with the completion of the loan however – if anything, it’s really ramped up since.

We’ve had Jackson effectively saying goodbye to Chelsea and sending some shots at them, despite the fact he’s only on a loan, then Bayern board member Uli Hoeness claiming that a permanent deal would “never happen.”

Matt Law’s take on Jackson deal details

Nicolas Jackson holds up a Bayern shirt ahead of his move.

On the London is Blue podcast today, they had Matt Law on to give his take.

Interestingly he claimed that there was at least one certain error in Hoeness’ comments: Jackson and his agent didn’t pay €3m towards the loan fee, just €1.5m.

“The one thing that’s been said by Hoeness which is definitely wrong is that Jackson and his agent paid €3m to make it happen. That didn’t happen. What I’m told is that Jackson and his agents gave up about €1.5m to help the deal happen… in terms of the appearances [to trigger a permanent move], there is a condition around 40 appearances, where there’s doubt is whether starts of 40 appearances.”

Chelsea fans who want Jackson gone live in hope

The fact that Hoeness got one part of it wrong gives everyone a little hope that maybe he got the whole thing wrong – but we doubt he’d be super far off the mark.

Even 40 appearances – rather than starts – would be tough to achieve. And if it does happen, it would likely be right at the end of the season. Bayern could just sit the striker on the bench or leave him out entirely if they don’t want to sign him for the fixed price.

It seems overwhelmingly likely that, even if Bayern likes him and he does well, that we end up back at the negotiating table next year.