Chelsea will hand a trademark whopping-length new contract to young buck Nicolas Jackson just to really make sure there was no risk of him looking to run down the mere seven years he had left on his existing deal.
The Athletic s David Ornstein writes that terms have been agreed on a contract extension that would tie Jackson to the club until 2033, which is officially quite a long time in the future.
One would have thought that one of the benefits of securing players to ludicrously long contracts would be that the renewal cycle would come around much less often, yet there Chelsea are, signing Jackson up to a new deal just over a year after he arrived at Stamford Bridge.
They have done the same for Cole Palmer, who signed a two-year extension on his contract last …