Former Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi has urged Nicolas Jackson to score goals week in and week out and shut down criticisms.
Mikel had questioned the lack of goals by the Chelsea number nine after Chelsea lost their opening game of the season to Manchester City. Jackson did’nt take Mikel’s critic lightly as he asked the former Super Eagles captain to “shut up,” after he scored in Chelsea’s 6-2 win over Wolves last weekend. “(Mikel) shut your mouth don’t talk s**t, we are killing ourselves for Africa,” Jackson posted on his Instagram.
But Mikel who spent 12 seasons at Chelsea winning all available football titles with the club insisted that he would only stop talking when the Ivorian born Jackson finds the back of the net often.
“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.”
