{"id":438888,"date":"2023-06-30T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438888"},"modified":"2023-06-30T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T19:31:00","slug":"chelsea-sign-nicolas-jackson-on-8-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/chelsea-sign-nicolas-jackson-on-8-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea sign Nicolas Jackson on 8-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have officially signed Senegal striker Nicolas Jackson on an 8-year deal from Villareal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OFFICIAL: Chelsea sign Nicolas Jackson from Villarreal on an eight-year contract \ud83d\udcb0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CQ4159r0ee\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/CQ4159r0ee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1674841615477637135?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old shone for the Spanish club, scoring 13 times in 38 appearances, including 9 in the final eight games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is a young player with big potential,&#8221; said co-sporting directors Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe he is ready for this next step in his career and look forward to him working with our new head coach, Mauricio Pochettino, and his Chelsea team-mates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The transfer fee is still unknown, but Chelsea are believed to be paying \u00a332m for the Senegal striker.<\/p>\n<p>He becomes the Blues second signing after they acquired Christopher Nkunku from Leipzig for \u00a352m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have officially signed Senegal striker Nicolas Jackson on an 8-year deal from Villareal. OFFICIAL: Chelsea sign Nicolas Jackson from Villarreal on an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":438889,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,20208,20209],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17902,20210,20211],"acf":{"announce":"The Villareal striker is heading towards Stamford Bridge","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438888"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438888"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}