Mikel John Obi

[Heisenberg 1,824]

I dont even want to listen to any opinion about how Mikel is good anymore, this guy must go, or become much much better, but since its three years now with the same level, time for him to go.

[Backstreet09 499]

Mikel needs to go, he's utterly useless. @Kojo has been saying this forever, and even though, we all know he's absolutely spot on, he gets nothing but improbable contempt.

But again there'd still be some incredible human beings here, charged with the fucking statistics and nerdy charts to show how fucking good Mikel's passing percentage is, Dayuuum if passing back to the keeper would win you trophies, we would have won it all by now -__-

oh and we don't know what his role is? I reckon, his role is to fucking defend, right? oi, well we fucking conceded two goals while he was on the pitch and scored one when he got off. #GETITRIGHT

In a nutshell, He's not even good enough to be part of a pub team's bench, so just fucking ship him back to Nigeria -__- #5realz

[Land 331]

Oscar probably made more tackles than him when he turned into a DM.I never saw a DM as calm as Mikel, he simply doesnt press players.He is weak in attack,weak in defense, in the end of the day he is just a bloody post in the field

[Korea 734]

Maks, Essien, Ballack............................Mikel..

Anwyays, Mikel did have one good long ball in the beg. of the game.......

[Clevemayer 764]

Shocking by him really disappointed had a point to prove didnt

[bababoom 4,478]

I've backed him all the way until this season. He isn't a DM, no way. He has no positional sense, he doesn't have the slightest clue what to do when we're under pressure and finally, wheres the passion? most of the time he looks like he doesn't give a fuck.. at times today Yaya absolutely bullied him, it was embarrassing.

United fans must be relieved they never actually signed him..

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

[Hutcho 8,443]

Very bad today. Even went wandering from DM. May as well played David Luiz there.

[Styles 9,790]

City are one of the few teams who actually target Mikel. They press him and try to work passes around him because they know he's very slow and doesn't turn quickly.

Today was just another example of Mikel not being athletic enough and being poor defensively.

[The Mak 4,459]

A Passenger. That's how I summed up his game. An absolute passenger.

Maybe we were told to sit deep, sure, but that doesn't give Mikel licence to jog around aimlessly and, more often than not, practically stand fucking still. He didn't even stand were he was fucking supposed to, he was actually, most of the time, too far forward! Mikel, forward! I know, it sounds weird! He actually looked like he was there for the lulz, expecting everyone else to do his job. Maybe I'm too harsh...maybe he just thought we still had Didier...

Once pressure is put on Mikel, he can't cope and turns to absolute shit. City were very quick with their passing and it took him totally out of the game. I mean, completely and utterly out of the game. Sure, he was great last season, great in Munich, but it's a completely different team now. The whole team doesn't sit next to him anymore, behind the ball, defending as one massive unit. This season, he has a lot more responsibility against the top sides and that is where he has been found out. Pass it quick and well against us, which top teams will do, and he is a pointless player to have in the squad. I honestly believe that, and that is why I see him as no more than a squad player.

This is what I meant whenever I say I believe there are DMs in the world who can do what he can do, except they can also run and/or pass. Take Ramires for example; sure, he doesn't have great positional sense or passing, but at least he can fucking run. At least he got at the City players, in so far as he could. At least we can see his passion, his effort and that he gives a shit.

But Mikel? Well, he can't run. Nor can he pass or dictate the tempo of a game. And, apparently, he can't even position himself at times. So let me ask, against the top teams, what fucking use is he?!

[Heisenberg 1,824]

A Passenger. That's how I summed up his game. An absolute passenger.

Maybe we were told to sit deep, sure, but that doesn't give Mikel licence to jog around aimlessly and, more often than not, practically stand fucking still. He didn't even stand were he was fucking supposed to, he was actually, most of the time, too far forward! Mikel, forward! I know, it sounds weird! He actually looked like he was there for the lulz, expecting everyone else to do his job. Maybe I'm too harsh...maybe he just thought we still had Didier...

Once pressure is put on Mikel, he can't cope and turns to absolute shit. City were very quick with their passing and it took him totally out of the game. I mean, completely and utterly out of the game. Sure, he was great last season, great in Munich, but it's a completely different team now. The whole team doesn't sit next to him anymore, behind the ball, defending as one massive unit. This season, he has a lot more responsibility against the top sides and that is where he has been found out. Pass it quick and well against us, which top teams will do, and he is a pointless player to have in the squad. I honestly believe that, and that is why I see him as no more than a squad player.

This is what I meant whenever I say I believe there are DMs in the world who can do what he can do, except they can also run and/or pass. Take Ramires for example; sure, he doesn't have great positional sense or passing, but at least he can fucking run. At least he got at the City players, in so far as he could. At least we can see his passion, his effort and that he gives a shit.

But Mikel? Well, he can't run. Nor can he pass or dictate the tempo of a game. And, apparently, he can't even position himself at times. So let me ask, against the top teams, what fucking use is he?!

We must field 11 players.

[Kojo 4,676]

A Passenger. That's how I summed up his game. An absolute passenger.

Maybe we were told to sit deep, sure, but that doesn't give Mikel licence to jog around aimlessly and, more often than not, practically stand fucking still. He didn't even stand were he was fucking supposed to, he was actually, most of the time, too far forward! Mikel, forward! I know, it sounds weird! He actually looked like he was there for the lulz, expecting everyone else to do his job. Maybe I'm too harsh...maybe he just thought we still had Didier...

Once pressure is put on Mikel, he can't cope and turns to absolute shit. City were very quick with their passing and it took him totally out of the game. I mean, completely and utterly out of the game. Sure, he was great last season, great in Munich, but it's a completely different team now. The whole team doesn't sit next to him anymore, behind the ball, defending as one massive unit. This season, he has a lot more responsibility against the top sides and that is where he has been found out. Pass it quick and well against us, which top teams will do, and he is a pointless player to have in the squad. I honestly believe that, and that is why I see him as no more than a squad player.

This is what I meant whenever I say I believe there are DMs in the world who can do what he can do, except they can also run and/or pass. Take Ramires for example; sure, he doesn't have great positional sense or passing, but at least he can fucking run. At least he got at the City players, in so far as he could. At least we can see his passion, his effort and that he gives a shit.

But Mikel? Well, he can't run. Nor can he pass or dictate the tempo of a game. And, apparently, he can't even position himself at times. So let me ask, against the top teams, what fucking use is he?!

Oh now you've done it, You've put Ramires into your arguement, here comes The Skipper to tell you that Ramires and Mikel are different players.

[Kojo 4,676]

Shocking by him really disappointed had a point to prove didnt

Believe it or not I used to really like Mikel, like he was always one of the ones I would defend, but last season he just proved to me that he's not ready at all.

Yeah sure I maybe I am harsh, that's just me, I am the bigget exaggarator on this forum. But he's not ready, and if he's going to be ready then it's certainly not now. Mikel in some sense does have some abillity in his locker, as I've always described him "good on the ball, bad off the ball". He is very good at keeping the ball, not many are as good as that for his weight, he rarely gets the ball took off him.

But it's clear this season has been possibly his worst. He's been off form so many times, even his passing which has been a strong point for Mikel throughout his whole Chelsea career and It's just been shambolic this season, yeah once again i exaggerate but still you get what I'm saying, 'I aint happy'. My point is, and I've been making this point since november last season is that he's not ready, and will he ever be ready? I don't think so. But It's clear we have to get a new midfielder, yeah sure keep him in the team, but we need new midfielders we can't just keep holding onto him when he's playing bad.

[Ollie 4,400]

He can be such a boss but sometimes he just doesn't care, is not interested and after what he said about not being motivated for the Europa League, fuck him. I'd kill to play for Chelsea as would all of the ppl on this forum. To see players saying things like that and see that they are clearly not putting in maximum effort, really makes me mad. Fucker gets paid shit-loads (don't like to bring this up but it's true) to do the best job in the world and he plays like that? He provided no help or security for our defence all day, yet that's his job. He just clearly didn't fancy it today.

Our midfield was owned by Toure, they just left him alone because they were shit scared. Pathetic effort in such a game as this.

[manpe 10,861]

and after what he said about not being motivated for the Europa League, fuck him.

Care to enlighten me what and when he said?

[The only place to be 11,313]

Getting a lot of criticism but people are missing one thing - he had 84% pass completion percentage today!!

To put that into context, Barry only had 82% and Nasri only 78% so aren't you glad we didn't have those players instead??

All you haters focus too much on what you see on the 'television' with your 'eyes' when you really should base everything around statistics that mean something.

[Backstreet09 499]

Getting a lot of criticism but people are missing one thing - he had 84% pass completion percentage today!!

To put that into context, Barry only had 82% and Nasri only 78% so aren't you glad we didn't have those players instead??

All you haters focus too much on what you see on the 'television' with your 'eyes' when you really should base everything around statistics that mean something.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

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You Sir, just won the internet :tophat:

[remains of the day 564]

I'm by no means a mikel hater and rarely do I ever criticize him...but he was disappointingly poor today. Considering his number of appearances in comparison to the rest of the outfield players on that pitch, its almost inexcusable and borderline laughable that he can put out a display like that in such an important game. He's already taken quite a bit of stick so I won't yap on about this. What I will say is that if we're going to continue with this expansive system and if we're going to continue using hobbit size attacking players then it's imperative that we sign a defensive midfielder who understands that tackling isn't just a thing a DM does every 60 mins of so.

I mean...to have any type of defensive solidarity in an attacking system then surely your defensive midfielder needs to have one of the highest work rates in the team, no? Besides channeling opposition players to the flanks or areas they can't do much damage, a defensive mid also has to be quick to break up play, stay with runners, hassle opposition players.... otherwise your defenders will constantly be under siege.

Just take a look at Mikel here.....

Look at the gap between him and the defenders! Look at the number of man city players in front of him. I mean, really? Are you kidding me? Even oscar is ahead of him trying to get back. This is just shocking and has become all too common with mikel.