Former England assistant Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has admitted he was ‘hurt’ to hear Jude Bellingham’s comments around Euro 2024.The Chelsea legend formed part of the national team’s staff under Gareth Southgate for the tournament in Germany two years ago.Bellingham cut an emotional figure as England failed to reach a first World Cup final in 60 yearsGettyEngland reached back-to-back European Championship finals, but fell at the last stage in a 2-1 defeat to current World Cup finalists Spain.However, the Three Lions were far from convincing throughout Euro 2024, having gone a goal down in all four of their knockout games.Bellingham previously admitted months after the tournament that the media scrutiny took a huge toll on both him and his family.It proved in stark contrast to his demeanour at the start of this summer’s World Cup, with the Real Madrid star on top form.And Bellingham admitted last month that he felt the squad under Southgate was not ‘connected as well as it could have been’.“At the Euros we got some things a little bit wrong off the pitch,” he said on England’s Lions’ Den show.“I don’t feel like the group connected as well as it could have for a number of reasons. Expectation was part of it – we had done well in 2018 and done well in Qatar, and when it came to that tournament we were seen as one of two or three teams that should win it.“We were not playing particularly well, so even when we were winning, you didn’t get the feeling you were as happy as you should be.“There has to be that element of relentlessness and wanting to win, but it is the nature of football that wins go out of the system quickly, and we should hold on to that moment a little more.“I think this time round having those experiences… and knowing, for example, that the guy who scores the winning goal in the World Cup final isn’t always the one you’d bet your house on, so you’ve always got to be ready, everyone’s got to feel loved and feel a huge part of the team. The other thing is just to enjoy it.”Hasselbaink: ‘Quite painful for me’Hasselbaink, who is now assistant coach for the Suriname national team, reacted to those comments on talkSPORT’s White and Jordan.He said: “Obviously I was part of the camp before and I heard that and I read that. It quite hurt me. “It was quite painful for me because I was part of that and I thought it was a really good camp, even though there were so many little problems.“I don’t know [what Bellingham meant]. We have to ask him. But the camp and Gareth did absolutely magnificent with what was coming from outside to in the camp to keep that all together and to keep that so positive and to get to that final in the Euros. “Yes, we lost. Yes, we didn’t play well, but we at least had a very, very good semifinal against the Netherlands, that we won.”“Really good camp”Pressed by talkSPORT’s Jim White on what exactly Bellingham meant by ‘things off the pitch’, Hasselbaink replied: “I would like to know what – I really would like to know.”Bellingham claimed that mistakes were made, on and off the pitch, by England, at the 2024 EurosGettyWhen asked if he recognised anything that the 23-year-old has been describing, Hasselbaink added: “No, not really.“I thought it was a really, really good camp. I’ve got little videos of our days off and everybody together and music on and everybody happy singing and everybody together and and all that kind of stuff.“Yes, there were like little problems with players. But those were personal problems with certain players.“And yes, that affected the group a little bit. But it didn’t affect the group so that we couldn’t perform. We were still together.“We were still a unit. And I don’t think that he’s talking about that.“But I would like to know what what what what he means. I thought it was a really, really good camp. And I’ve been in lots of camps.”