Chelsea legend, John Obi Mikel, has responded to striker, Nicolas Jackson’s tirade in which he told the former Nigeria international to shut his mouth.
TOTAL SPORTS reported that the Senegalese striker was irritated by Obi Mikel’s recent comments regarding his lack of goal scoring prowess for the Blues.
Obi Mikel won every available trophy in club football with Chelsea during his active days.
Jackson put Enzo Maresca’s side in front in their 6-2 mauling of Wolves on Sunday.
The Senegal international also provided an assist and showed vast improvement from a frustrating showing in a 2-0 defeat to Manchester City the opening week.
Obi Mikel did not hesitate to highlight the striker’s missed chances in the defeat to City and this did not go down well with the 23-year-old.
After Sunday’s victory, Jackson took to Instagram with a furious post, writing, “(Mikel) shut your mouth don’t talk s**t, we are killing ourselves for Africa.”
Mikel responded to this comment on his The Obi One podcast saying, “I really like the guy as a football player, there’s something there as a football player. I haven’t said that he’s a bad player at all. I’ve just said that his finishing qualities, it’s not there yet.
“All I’ve said is that he needs a more kind of experienced striker to come into the football club, to help him, to help him improve, to help him get better because we all know, we can all see the shift he puts in week in week out.
“If he plays well I will praise him, if there is something to be said about him where he needs to improve, I will definitely say it. If he scores every week and tells me to shut up, I’ll take it.”
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