🇳🇬 Mikel John Obi

[y10edn 185]

Mikel: Chelsea 1st signing in January 2016 transfer window had a wonderful debut today against Crystal Palace in a 3-0 away win, we wish our new signing a brilliant season in Chelsea. Old boy Matic would have to raise his game to get back into the team.

[Stats 7,142]

I hope this performance makes his critics realise how useful of a squad player he is. He does his job. He is not going to play consistently world class but for a player who knows he is a back up role and comes in and performs like that, we should appreciate that. He proves that he can do a role in Matic absence and hopefully that performance assures people he will be fine in place of Matic for PSG. Great game and great valuable player. Why people think we should ship him. I never know. Anyway, today he showed the quality he has. Simply brilliant.

[Ossie the King 634]

2 minutes ago, Stats said:

I hope this performance makes his critics realise how useful of a squad player he is. He does his job. He is not going to play consistently world class but for a player who knows he is a back up role and comes in and performs like that, we should appreciate that. He proves that he can do a role in Matic absence and hopefully that performance assures people he will be fine in place of Matic for PSG. Great game and great valuable player. Why people think we should ship him. I never know. Anyway, today he showed the quality he has. Simply brilliant.

I daresay if he played like that more often then he wouldn't have critics.

[Kieran. 6,317]

2 minutes ago, Stats said:

I hope this performance makes his critics realise how useful of a squad player he is. He does his job. He is not going to play consistently world class but for a player who knows he is a back up role and comes in and performs like that, we should appreciate that. He proves that he can do a role in Matic absence and hopefully that performance assures people he will be fine in place of Matic for PSG. Great game and great valuable player. Why people think we should ship him. I never know. Anyway, today he showed the quality he has. Simply brilliant.

Notice he got a couple games in a row under his belt (unlike under Mourinho where he'd play here and there) and he puts in a worldie? 

[DYC. 7,542]

13 minutes ago, Stats said:

I hope this performance makes his critics realise how useful of a squad player he is. He does his job. He is not going to play consistently world class but for a player who knows he is a back up role and comes in and performs like that, we should appreciate that. He proves that he can do a role in Matic absence and hopefully that performance assures people he will be fine in place of Matic for PSG. Great game and great valuable player. Why people think we should ship him. I never know. Anyway, today he showed the quality he has. Simply brilliant.

I'll need more before 'converting'.

[Amblève. 4,995]

It was the avatar change, obviously.

[Jase 43,479]

36 minutes ago, Stats said:

I hope this performance makes his critics realise how useful of a squad player he is. He does his job. He is not going to play consistently world class but for a player who knows he is a back up role and comes in and performs like that, we should appreciate that. He proves that he can do a role in Matic absence and hopefully that performance assures people he will be fine in place of Matic for PSG. Great game and great valuable player. Why people think we should ship him. I never know. Anyway, today he showed the quality he has. Simply brilliant.

Fair play to Mikel today. He was very very very good. It was arguably one of the best performances by any midfielders in the league this season - controlled the game, didn't give Palace an inch and provided a platform for us to launch our attacks. The thing with Mikel is he needs to be more consistent (it will probably come with more game time, I guess). We shouldn't forget that he sometimes can produce brainfart games - e.g looking slow and pedestrian on the ball, looking lost on the ball, losing out in challenges etc.

[bababoom 4,478]

Mikel normally holds on to the ball for too long (similar to how Matic' been lately) but today he was class, great composure on the ball and quick 1 touch passing, brilliant. 

[Jase 43,479]

Hiddink on Mikel's performance...

http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2016/01/final-whistle-verdict-post-palace.html?extcmp=SOCIA_TW_ENG_NEWS_POSTMATCH

'He played very well as he also did in the previous games. He’s the ideal player in my option to bring balance to the team.

‘If the team is not willing to defend well or have the right balance then you concede a lot of goals. I thought John Obi can be one of the key figures in getting the balance back. On top of that the talented players can then explore their qualities.

‘He can recover the radar. He knows the game very well. He knows where the strength of the opponent is and he knows exactly how to cope with that. He has a very good eye, a very good nose, and a very good sense of where to recover.

'He doesn’t do it in a very brutal way – he’s very, very elegant. What I like to see very much is not just a quality player but a player who can defend so smoothly. It’s beautiful to see. He doesn’t lose many balls, he’s good in short passing. I don’t expect and I don’t ask him to make the decisive final pass. He can but no, we let the other players do that.’

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

Just Need to continue like that...

not only 2-3 good games...

[Blue Colored Sky 1,807]

More lifes than cats.

Wasn't Mikel sold several times to Turkey already and most recently, in July, was in Istanbul even negotiating his contract there ?

[lionking 10]

MIkel never gives a wrong pass.....you are in the wrong position

[LDN Blue 7,903]

41 minutes ago, lionking said:

MIkel never gives a wrong pass.....you are in the wrong position

#DareToObi

[nyikolajevics 2,698]

He is one of my favourite people on this planet right now. <3

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

[Melanicus 5,208]

5 hours ago, Jason said:

Hiddink on Mikel's performance...

http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2016/01/final-whistle-verdict-post-palace.html?extcmp=SOCIA_TW_ENG_NEWS_POSTMATCH

 

 

 

Mikelele.

[ANDRECHO 432]

LEGEND !! 

https://twitter.com/ChelseaFC_Lat/status/683816270857375748

[Fernando 6,585]

9 hours ago, Stats said:

I hope this performance makes his critics realise how useful of a squad player he is. He does his job. He is not going to play consistently world class but for a player who knows he is a back up role and comes in and performs like that, we should appreciate that. He proves that he can do a role in Matic absence and hopefully that performance assures people he will be fine in place of Matic for PSG. Great game and great valuable player. Why people think we should ship him. I never know. Anyway, today he showed the quality he has. Simply brilliant.

Well kinda of the same like Ramires. 

Not world class but great squad players to have. I always said that about Ramires, and why I never bother in keeping him. 

Mikel is just an enigma, he did good today but there is no consistency. 

[Chelsea4 1,521]

John Obi Mikel completed 78/82 passes againts Crystal Palace.

[Special Juan 28,141]

Like yesterdays result, I am not getting ahead of myself with that or Mikel, it's happened before, and we need a run of consistency from Mikel and the team before we start shouting from the roof.