Mikel John Obi

[lucio 5,386]

ffs why is everything good in my life fake......................

[Sheva. 5,373]

always sounded too good to be true.

I still stand by my initial sentiment

No other club will be stupid enough to actually make a bid for John Obi Mikel (unless they have Emenalo/John Shittu as the men deciding their transfers)

The fuck? Emenalo didn't sign Mikel and has nothing to do with him - except the fact they both happen to come from the same country.

[didierforever 7,349]

does not any1 feel sad for the guy... he ll probably be leaving us without scoring a single PL goal.

[Tomo 21,681]

always sounded too good to be true.

I still stand by my initial sentiment

No other club will be stupid enough to actually make a bid for John Obi Mikel (unless they have Emenalo/John Shittu as the men deciding their transfers)

No other club was shrewd enough to sign KDB and Courtois for penuts and see their price doubled or even possibly trebled.

Emenalo was.

[Phil Driver 503]

I have every confidence their is truth in this story or at least we are anxious to sell .

1. Because Mikel is a poor player.

2. Mourinho is a top manager who knows what he is doing.

1+2 = Bye bye Mikel .

[Kostas 1,468]

This last page has been enjoyable to read, in a very juvenile/immature way. Mods can us 10 lads that rate him on here throw a party in this thread if its still in this section on the 1st of September?

David Luiz was an emergency midfielder because our squad was woefully short. He is not a midfielder. Please stop this nonsense, I never want to see him in midfield again. EVER.

Love the emphasis. I love the boy but I'm just as desperate.

[diskoviolente 425]

Didn´t Mourinho say back then that players like Kalou and Mikel are the future of football ? Mikel today is the player because of Mourinho. Why would he let him go, can´t see no reason other than Mikel really wants to go.

[Kostas 1,468]

The whole thing makes no sense. Usually such stories are a product of an agent trying to negotiate a new contract. With Mikel's last contract having been signed some 7 months ago I seriously doubt his side is the one causing the stir (if there is any).

I can see only 3 possibilities. Either Galata (or some other club) promised Mikel higher wages (unlikely) and his agent a decent fee, or the Mourinho desired to offload him and the media got a sniff of it (ha), or the journos made this up, threw in Galata for good measure, realized this is attracting clicks from a number of Chelsea fans and went with it.

Bonus: Of course it could also be the club deliberately misleading the media to their own end by leaking vague BS e.g. African CFC player to join ex teammate. (Remember the Italian ex-player to join AVB's staff and top english midfielder to ManUtd stories a while ago which had the media drooling over Zola and Lampard?)

[The Mak 4,459]

Didn´t Mourinho say back then that players like Kalou and Mikel are the future of football ? Mikel today is the player because of Mourinho. Why would he let him go, can´t see no reason other than Mikel really wants to go.

Yes, when everyone thought they had the potential to be great. As it turned out, they're above average at best. Where is Kalou again?

[CHOULO19 24,332]

He might leave to Gala (unlikely, imo) but he certainly won't go talking so openly about the deal when nothing is official yet. The club won't let him. The quotes were so obviously fake.

This last page has been enjoyable to read, in a very juvenile/immature way. Mods can us 10 lads that rate him on here throw a party in this thread if its still in this section on the 1st of September?

Count me in!

[The Skipper 20,593]

I have every confidence their is truth in this story or at least we are anxious to sell .

1. Because Mikel is a poor player.

2. Mourinho is a top manager who knows what he is doing.

1+2 = Bye bye Mikel .

The same top manager who fought to bring in Mikel and said he struck gold with him right? Come off it.

[Jase 43,479]

Wait, the quotes are false?

Possibly. Then again, people are always prone to believe things like this when they want to.

[Jase 43,479]

Jesus...even his proposed transfer is slow-moving and tedious.

Maybe it wasn't even on in the 1st place. Just some people here had believed it was.

[Special Juan 27,099]

Possibly. Then again, people are always prone to believe things like this when they want to.

I'd like to see us bring in someone better, I believe we can too.

[Phil Driver 503]

The same top manager who fought to bring in Mikel and said he struck gold with him right? Come off it.

It is all part of Mourinho's psychological approach to management, confidence building, making a player feel great ,with a player like Lampard it most certainly worked ,but for it to work a player needs to have an ability to start with and the scope to improve and believe in himself and Mourinho ,Mikel had none of this to progress unfortunately , he is leaving or he will hang around like Malouda and Bogarde, he has no future at Chelsea this will become even clearer as the season progresses in the event he is not sold soon .

Mourinho is a top manager and he will have seen that Mikel can only hinder his ambition to take us to the top of English football ...................................keep watching this space ,Mikel is finished as a player at Chelsea .

[chelseathebest 150]

Mikel is a good player and it would be a shame to lose him.

Still, I am sure that we will sign a decent replacement if he goes.

Mou is not going to make the same mistake we did last year.

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,738]

This thread is going to explode when Mikel has another solid game for Nigeria in an hour

[nono 791]

Who is the main culprit for the midfield being overrun time after time if not Mikel ?