Liverpool’s Striker Safari: A Wild Pursuit…
Move over safari expeditions; Liverpool’s summer striker hunt is more thrilling than a night out with Bigfoot in downtown Anfield! With a trail of transfer treasure worth more than $250 million already scattered behind them like bewildered breadcrumbs, the Reds have set their binoculars on a herd of targets including Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike. Newcastle’s own Prince Charming, Isak, has yet to be wooed with official offers, while Ekitike may be the cunning fox Liverpool needs if Newcastle snaps up the French jewel of Eintracht Frankfurt.
But wait, grabbing the spotlight and dribbling through the rumors like a ballerina doing the Nutmeg is none other than Nicolas Jackson! Once causing Bournemouth’s former swashbuckler Richard Hughes to whip out his cheque book faster than a squirrel cracks a nut, Jackson was inches from a $27M deal before his hamstring called time-out. Now, back in action like a phoenix with boots, Jackson’s journey has landed him at Chelsea, even if his exit was on a private jet rather than a private jet ski.
With Bill Foley, Bournemouth’s head honcho, admitting with the regret the size of a goal-mouth miss that not signing Jackson was a grand faux pas, Nicolas continues to dazzle at Chelsea, scoring for fun and occasionally finding himself red-carded in a theatrical flourish. Who’d have thought that the saga of a failed medical would rocket Jackson into transfer soap opera stardom faster than a football strikes the post in a blooper reel!
