Super Eagles and Chelsea legend, John Obi Mikel has reacted to striker, Nicolas Jackson’s banter in which he told the former Nigeria international to shut his mouth.
It was gathered that the Senegalese striker was irritated by Mike’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 the Blues 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.
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.”
However, Mikel has now 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.
