In his first interview he was asking the interviewer to speak slowly. Being able to converse in English and speaking perfect English are two very different things.
Besides which, the language on a football pitch isn’t usually normal English anyway. Most the time it’s simple short words or phrases that may not make sense even if you speak English if you haven’t used them before “overlap!” “Man on!” “Line!” Inside” “squares your ball!”
Honestly I just think it’s a case or rotation and resting now, rather than dropping