Ex-Chelsea star John Obi Mikel implored Jadon Sancho to ‘wake the f*** up’ and claimed the winger had ‘deceived’ Blues supporters.
Sancho moved to Stamford Bridge on mortgage from Manchester United final summer season and started his stint brightly, registering two targets and three assists from his first 9 league video games.
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The winger additionally supplied assists for each of Chelsea’s targets of their 2-0 win over Heidenheim within the Europa Convention League final November.
However since his objective within the Blues’ 4-3 win over Tottenham on December 8, Sancho’s objective returns have disappeared.
From that match onwards, Sancho has only one help from his final 12 appearances throughout all competitions.
With Nicolas Jackson and Noni Madueke sidelined with damage and Joao Felix on mortgage at AC Milan, Sancho should shoulder extra of a goalscoring and artistic burden that ever earlier than.
Talking on The Obi One Podcast, Mikel questioned the place the Sancho from the opening 9 video games had scampered off to and referred to as on him to ship extra.
“Jadon Sancho, he is come on and he is deceived us with a number of couple of video games,” Mikel mentioned.
“We thought, ‘F****** hell, now we’re getting this Jadon Sancho from Dortmund.’
“He is gone. He is gone once more. I do not know what’s occurred to Jadon. He is disappeared, off the grid.
“He takes the ball, he does not go previous folks anymore, he does not create probabilities anymore.
“He does not assist the crew as a lot as he needs to be.”
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Sancho’s barren run in relation to targets and assists has coincided with Chelsea enduring a worrying run of type.
Of their final 14 video games throughout all competitions the Blues have picked up simply six wins.
Nevertheless, three of these got here in opposition to Kazakh aspect FC Astana, Irish outfit Shamrock Rovers and League Two battlers Morecambe.
The alarming run of outcomes has additionally seen Chelsea drop from second all the best way right down to sixth within the Premier League because the strain cranks up on Maresca.
With the Blues’ season liable to truly fizzling out, Mikel demanded extra from Sancho and felt he nonetheless hasn’t proved himself regardless of his successes with Dortmund in Germany.
“Jadon Sancho must step up,” Mikel mentioned.
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“I do not know what’s occurred to him. However Jadon Sancho must wake the f*** up.
“He is gone to so many locations. Sure, at Dortmund, we all know he is executed it. However that is the German league.
“No disrespect to the German league, you solely have Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen, let’s put it that approach.
“The Premier League is the hardest league on the planet.”
Sancho will look to interrupt his goalscoring drought when Chelsea journey to Aston Villa, who’re winless of their final 4 league fixtures, on Saturday.