Reports suggest Bayern agreed to an initial £14 million loan fee for Jackson, with a clause requiring a permanent £56 million purchase if the striker features in 40 matches. ..Continue Reading
However, Bayern president Uli Hoeness has publicly stated that the club has no intention of finalizing a £70 million permanent deal, and that Jackson is expected to return to Chelsea once the season concludes.
‘There will definitely not be a permanent contract,’ Hoeness said this month. ‘That only happens if he plays 40 games from the start, it will never happen.’
However, Former Chelsea player and manager Di Matteo is not convinced Hoeness is telling the truth over making the deal permanent next summer.
‘If he scores 20 goals for Bayern this season, do you think they are going to buy him or not?’ Di Matteo told Metro via BetVictor Online Casino.
‘The season has barely started. He’s only just joined Bayern. Let’s give the boy a chance to show his quality.
‘I’m not sure Bayern are serious. I don’t believe that they’ve already made a decision.
‘They signed him because they think he has good qualities for their team – let’s see how he fits in the Bundesliga, it’s different to the Premier League.
‘I think it was harsh to let him go, that’s my opinion. He worked really hard, he was a very good striker.’
Jackson was allowed to leave Chelsea after they signed Joao Pedro in the summer and recalled Marc Guiu from his season-long loan at Sunderland to cover for the injured Liam Delap.
‘Maybe he was missing something,’ Di Matteo added about Jackson. ‘That natural [goalscoring] instinct. Maybe he hasn’t got it yet. He still might find it.
‘Comparing him to Pedro, he has that, he is a natural goalscorer who can score out of nothing, which is the difference.’
Former Chelsea defender Frank Leboeuf is convinced that Bayern have a plan to stop deploying Jackson if he plays 39 matches and will leave him on the bench or drop from the squad entirely.
‘He knows that 40 games is going to be hard to be made,’ Leboeuf said about Jackson’s situation on ESPN FC.
‘At the end of the day, you still have some hopes that at some point you will have a chance – and if you are good – you know that maybe the coin will flip and it’s going to be better.
‘But now you already know that if you reach 39 games you’re not going to play any more.’
