Arsenal loves to make an approach for a Chelsea player, and they often snap up talent from the Blues.
Mikel Arteta’s side has been following players from the West London club to their squad for several seasons and has already agreed to sign Kepa Arrizabalaga from the Blues in this transfer window. This continues a recent trend of the Gunners looking to poach players from their London rivals, often with the goal of bolstering depth or addressing specific needs in the squad.
Chelsea, despite their struggles, still possesses talented individuals who catch the attention of top Premier League clubs, and Arsenal is never far behind when one becomes available.
Arsenal Monitoring Multiple Chelsea Players
Kepa might not be the only Chelsea star who moves to the Emirates this summer. Reports now claim that Noni Madueke has also been linked with a transfer to Arsenal. Madueke, a player with flair and attacking threat, has yet to fully settle at Chelsea and could be viewed as a project worth developing under Arteta’s system.
However, the list doesn’t stop there. According to a report on Metro Sport, the Gunners have now added Nicolas Jackson to their wishlist as well. Jackson, a striker who has shown flashes of ability but has also been plagued by inconsistency, is reportedly available for transfer this summer. The Blues are said to be open to letting him go if a suitable offer comes in.
Striker Search Highlights Arsenal’s Summer Plans
Arsenal are actively looking for a new striker, but its pursuit of top targets such as Viktor Gyokeres and Benjamin Sesko has run into challenges. With those moves currently uncertain, the club appears to be exploring alternative options, and Jackson is now one of the names under consideration.
Even though Arsenal continues to hold discussions with their main targets, the inclusion of Jackson on their shortlist indicates that the club is preparing for different scenarios in the transfer market.
Still, it’s hard to ignore Jackson’s inconsistency. Arsenal needs a reliable finisher to lead the line if they are serious about challenging for the Premier League title. Jackson may offer potential, but at this stage, he is simply too inconsistent to be the main striker at the Emirates.
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Good choice of a signing. His abilty to get in behind defences will make our midfleld and saka thrive
Just what we need, another player who likes a red card or two. 🤷♂️
Nicolas Jackson is an exciting option for Arsenal for several reasons: his proven goalscoring in the Premier League, his header strength and ability to find space between defences, his youth and potential, and a realistic transfer fee of £40-50m. Jackson’s speed and work ethic make him a good player in Arteta’s system IMO.
“Still, it’s hard to ignore Jackson’s inconsistency. ” as the article says. So, potentially, Arsenal would be bringing in an inconsistent striker to replace inconsistent strikers. An interesting and quite novel move, if it ever came about.
Surely if the past season or two has taught us anything, it’s that we need someone up front who can put the ball into the net on a regular basis.
Just call Brighton and give them 60m quid for Joao Pedro and end all this striker search merrymerry-go-round already. It’s not good for anybody’s blood pressure.
It’s not like Arsenal can’t score goals without a dedicated striker. I think that despite this, we are one of the best scoring teams in the Premier League. But in crucial situations last year, we have lacked a striker, who could just give us the decisive goals. Arteta has some ability to improve players and develop them for his system. Jackson still has room to improve his finishing and decision-making. Jackson would IMO most likely flourish in Arsenal’s structured system, where he gets better chances than in Chelsea’s often slightly more chaotic attacks. He is a PL proven goalscorer. Who knows what Sesko and Gyokeres will be able to do in the Premier League
Yes, but as you say they don’t score the goals (from the wider team) often enough when it really matters. Piling up goals in a relatively few games won’t do.
Arsenal drew 14 league games last season – 37% of the total and the largest number in the league behind Everton. That’s when a top quality striker would very probably have made the key difference. However, I don’t think a gamble on the likes of an inconsistent Jackson is what Arsenal can really afford in this most crucial upcoming 2025-26 season.
Arteta is smart he’ll not sign Jackson. Rest assured. With Delap incoming Jackson fleeing. Who’re we to receive Chelsea rejects year after year. After Sterling horror show there is no season2.
Arteta is fool who buys Chelsea rejects year after year. No problem buying from them if we get good deals. but its utter foolishness’ to buy their deadwood on astronomical transfer fee and player salary (Like Kai Havertz deal). Now Arsenal stuck with him.
Ambachew,
You say Arteta is smart and he won’t sign Jackson.
You are talking about the man who signed Havertz and signed Sterling on loan aren’t you. 🙄🤦♂️🤷♂️
I feel this is Arsenal rage bait. None of us should want to go back into Che bins. The only time I wanted a Che castoff was Salah, who I watched when he was a youth, but this Che hasn’t got the Salah’s or the De Bruyne’s, all they have is projects for sale
We should be chasing McAtee he is killing it a U21 euros. Playing rice at DM with McAtee and Odgarrd infront of him
Then after buying him from them, they ll go ahead and sign gyokeres with d money.
Jackson would not be a good fit for Arsenal as he is not adept at holding up the ball nor in linking with teammates in confined spaces in the final third.With his pace he is more suited to playing for a counter attacking side which is why he has not been fully convincing for Chelsea.Apart from that he is simply not a great finisher.
So many fans in hier seem to be convinced that Sesko and Gyokeres will be consistent goalscorers in the Premier League. I’M NOT. Crazy money for unproven PL strikers IMO.
Osimhen scores plenty of goals wherever he plays. I would go for him. Jackson could be a risk, however, I would be willing to accept at that price. Jackson has great potential. If we want to be sure of a consistent goalscorer in the PL, I can only think of Osimhen, Salah, Haaland and Isak. Everyone else is associated with uncertainty about whether they can do it again year after year.
But three of your “picks”, Salah, Haaland and Isak, all came to the Premiership from elsewhere, so were all “unproven” on that basis.
Salah was at Basel (before going to Chelsea for a single season, where he was a flop) but eventually joined Liverpool from Roma. Haaland was at Borussia Dortmund. Isak was at Real Sociedad.
They all turned out to be very successful here so why shouldn’t the likes of Sesko or Gyokeres just because they play abroad as well? There’s a degree of uncertainty about every single transfer, but that didn’t prevent Liverpool, City and Newcastle going ahead.
Salah came from Roma – €23 m
Haaland came from Dortmund – €150 m (Superstar in Germany) Sesko is not.
Isak came from Realsocidag – €30 m
But demanding/paying €80-100 for Sesko and Gyokeres is crazy for an unproven striker in the Premier Leaque.
@websurfer
Gyokeres had proven himself in the Championship, which is as close as you’re going to get the EPL. Odd that no one wanted him then. Now look at him. He’s a wanted man…
Jackson to Arsenal would make perfect sense, we love a Chelsea reject, he is absolute trash, along with Havertz and the rest of the dross we got stung with from that lot!
That’s pure anger and rage from you bro
No no no another reject how many more
Would choose this one over Sesko.