Can Hojlund and Jackson handle their goalscoring burdens?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Both Rasmus Hojlund and Nicolas Jackson have felt the weight of expectation following their respective summer moves to Man United and Chelsea.
To analyse their starts to life in the Premier League Ayo Akinwolere is joined by former Liverpool striker Neil Mellor and ex-Brighton & Hove Albion forward Glenn Murray as well as The Athletic's Oliver Kay.
The panel assess the impact of the environment both players are operating in, the options available within the transfer market for 'elite' clubs as well as what it will take for both Hojlund and Jackson to succeed.
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Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:03.0 | Both Manchester United and Chelsea invested in the next generation of exciting attacking talent this summer. |
| 0:12.0 | An agreement for Hoyland was reached this morning. |
| 0:15.0 | Chelsea have just confirmed the signing of forward Nicholas Jackson from the Rea. |
| 0:22.0 | While both Nicholas Jackson and Rasmus Hoyland have shown flashes of what they can offer. |
| 0:26.8 | And Jackson has three. |
| 0:29.5 | Big broad, Senegal smile. |
| 0:32.3 | Don Achios got Hoyland up with him. |
| 0:33.9 | He might not need him. |
| 0:35.2 | Hoyland's there. |
| 0:36.3 | Is the goal-scoring burden at the highest level too much to carry for two young strikers? |
| 0:42.7 | I'm Ayahuakim Alere. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast. |
| 0:57.6 | We've got the Strikkers Union in with us today. |
| 1:03.4 | We've got former Liverpool striker Neil Meller and also Ex-Brighton and Hove Albion forward, Glenn Murray, as well. |
| 1:05.7 | Also, for the Athletic, we've got Olly Kay. |
| 1:07.7 | Right, let's start with Rasmus Hoyland. |
| 1:14.4 | He added to his Champions League tally of goals yesterday, joined Alvaro Marata as the joint top scorer in the competition on five goals. How do we assess his impact so far at Manchester |
| 1:20.9 | United? We'll start with you, Glenn. Well, Champions League's been superb, five goals in four games. |
| 1:26.3 | I don't think there's any questions there, but I suppose you've got to look at the level of opposition. He's playing against |
| 1:31.4 | in the Premier League. He's been blunt, but I think you've got to take into consideration. |
| 1:37.3 | He's a young man, only 20 years old, a lot of pressure on his shoulders to score goals at a huge |
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