Roberto Di Matteo has accused Bayern Munich of telling a lie to Chelsea over the Nicolas Jackson deal in the summer transfer window.
Bayern are reported to have paid an initial £14m to sign Jackson on loan, with an obligation to buy for a further £56m if he plays 40 matches.
But Bayern chief Uli Hoeness has insisted that a £70m move won’t be made permanent and Jackson will be heading back to Chelsea at the end of the season.
‘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.’
Former Chelsea player and manager Di Matteo, though, is not convinced Hoeness is telling the truth over making the deal permanent next summer.
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‘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 the Blues signed Joao Pedro in the summer transfer window 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 games 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.’
Jackson was Chelsea’s main striker last season and has registered a total of 30 goals and 12 assists in 81 games for the west Londoners to date.
