Data personnel earning their 🌽

Unearthing another 💎 in Nicolas Jackson, impressive underlying metrics + under 26 (which is very much in keeping with all our signings under Todd & co. from January to present window). Turned 22 today.
These low risk, high reward & high ceiling non-household names are precisely the type required from the data scouting department. (Avoid the likes of Lautaro Martinez, Vlahovic, Mitrovic like the plague)

Couldn't have asked for a better fallback option to Tammy Abraham.
On that, the similarities between them are uncanny....

In the way which Nicolas Jackson runs the channels, cushions and traps ball on chest with back to goal (at ease), exemplary work ethic & short-play in bringing others into play + nimble and quick shifting ball at feet in tight spaces...appears to possess the all round game and fluid movements of our former academy graduate Tammy. (Tammy has aerial ability over NJ...room for improvement, but what NJ lacks in aerial ability, makes up for in incisive off the ball movement)

Striking stylistic similarities in their skillset...tailor-made and naturally built for linking play in tight spaces + strong acceleration to burst players in open spaces and scoring goals (one of the best non-penalty goals to games ratio conversion rates in Europe amongst his peers, if you take the freak Haaland out of the equation).
Ideal foil and profile for our attackers + ambitions of heading straight back to the top.