Simply put, he is stating that people who have criticized him do not understand football and that he is only listening to someone who does, his Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino.

To say the least, Jackson has been inconsistent this season, which I guess means I don’t know football because I’m delivering some criticism with those words!!

Even yet, his numbers in terms of getting the ball in the back of the net are good, and what more do you want from your striker than to score goals?

It’s not a bad return for a new striker joining a new league and team, especially one as difficult as the Premier League.

So he should simply keep his head down and realize that in today’s game, fans and pundits will constantly provide criticism, which is only heightened by social media. It’s just how things are.

In words cited by The Evening Standard, Jackson said: “It is OK, it is not what I was going for, though it is my first season, so I am happy, although everybody is talking s***, I am very happy I don’t care what people say.

“It is just people who don’t know about football. I will just continue to play more games and score more goals for the team.

“I should have scored more because I have missed some chances. The Premier League is different from La Liga, where I came from. I am trying to adapt myself.

“It is not an excuse. I am trying to continue to work harder and listen to people. Not the people who do not know football, I listen to the coach that knows more football and try to improve myself.

“[Pochettino] has been with a lot of young players, so he motivates me every day and tells me to go and he has seen people worse than me [in the past] and they are now big players.

“De Bruyne was here and Salah was here. They struggled here and are now big players. They didn’t listen to people who don’t know football, he keeps telling me that.

“He knows football; they don’t know football, so I don’t listen to them.”