Nicolas Jackson is yet to hit the Premier League running, but the 22-year-old has shown promise, even though he has often been criticised this season.

Jackson is in his debut season at the club, and the former Villarreal man believes he can become big like the duo of Man City’s Kevin De Bruyne and Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah, who went on to become big in the Premier League having initially struggled in their early years at Chelsea.

He told the Evening Standard: “He [Mauricio Pochettino] has been with a lot of young players, so he motivates me every day and tells me to go and he has seen people worse than me [in the past] and they are now big players. [Kevin] De Bruyne was here and [Mohamed] Salah was here.

“They struggled here and are now big players. They didn’t listen to people who don’t know football, he keeps telling me that.

“He knows football; they don’t know football, so I don’t listen to them.”

Jackson has scored 8 goals in all competition for Chelsea this season. He has been often criticised for missing big chances, and if he can work on that part of his game, he could easily go on to have a good career.