Bayern Munich have told Nicolas Jackson to return to Chelsea after his loan move was cancelled on Saturday.
Jackson was poised to join the Bundesliga champions on a season-long loan for £13 million and had travelled to Germany on Saturday to finalise the move.
Bayern also had the option to make the move permanent next year for £56.2m.
However, Liam Delap suffered a hamstring injury in Saturday’s lunchtime Premier League fixture as Chelsea sealed a 2-0 win at home to Fulham.
Enzo Maresca expects Delap to miss at least six weeks, which leaves Joao Pedro as Chelsea’s only recognised striker.
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Chelsea then made the decision to halt Jackson’s loan move and have ordered the Senegal international to return to London.
Jackson, however, has been left furious with Chelsea’s decision and has remained in Munich on Saturday.
Bayern’s sporting director, Max Eberl, revealed on Saturday that Jackson has been ordered by both clubs to travel back to London and believes resurrecting a deal for the Chelsea striker is ‘not possible’.
‘Chelsea said shortly before the game that they would like the player back after we reached an agreement yesterday,’ Eberl said after Bayern’s 3-2 win over Augsburg.
‘The current situation is that the boy is here in Munich, but we’re sending him back. That’s the current status; I can’t predict the future. I’m not in a position to act now. We would have liked to have done the medical and signed the contract, but that’s not possible now.
‘We’re telling the player and his agent they have to go back to London. We don’t have a signed contract, even though we’ve reached an agreement. He has a contract with Chelsea
‘At the moment, that’s the situation. I won’t comment on what I’m doing and how I’m trying.
‘We have 48 hours left. This isn’t a situation we’ve really planned for, but we’ll find a solution for that, too.
‘First, we’ll consider whether to act. As long as we can act, we’ll consider whether to do anything else. If we then decide not to do anything else, that’s a decision.’
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