I do imagine that John Obi Mikel’s coronary heart is in the best place and his intentions are good. I additionally do agree with a variety of the issues he raises about Chelsea proper now, how we’re working, and a few of the gamers not being ok.
However he’s excessive, too excessive in actual fact, and his opinions form of get cancelled out when he does issues like this.
So, again in December 2024, the house owners had been clearly making an attempt to sweeten Mikel up and invited him to a recreation to attempt to get him on aspect. And for some time, a really brief whereas in actual fact, they perhaps did get him onside.
On the nineteenth of December, Mikel stated:
“A lot of conversations in my assembly with Behdad that I can not share however he loves the membership, and he’s additionally very educated on Soccer, we had been speaking in regards to the recreation and techniques.”
Then simply this week, Mikel jumped on his Podcast and was completely fuming with a variety of issues and has had an actual large dig on the house owners.
“I dont know an excessive amount of about these American house owners, they name it Soccer or Soccer? Anybody who calls Soccer soccer, I don’t wanna speak to you, you clearly don’t have any information on the sport. No however Roman was the man, spending a lot cash, bringing one of the best, all the time ensuring we’re on the prime, yearly we’re profitable trophies and competing. Even when we didn’t win, the following 12 months we HAVE to win 1-2 trophies, for us roman was the man.
“I’ve met the house owners a pair occasions, and after they name soccer “soccer” I dunno, it places me off mate. They’ve spent some huge cash however its not nearly throwing cash round, they should perceive the tradition, the heritage, they aren’t there but, I hope we get again to the place we belong.”
Wow, what a change up from Mikel. This doesn’t paint him out too properly to be trustworthy. I feel a few of the criticism he has known as has been spot on, however going on the house owners on this means after praising them a lot simply a few months again is a bit foolish. Particularly the entire ‘soccer’ factor.
I do imagine that Mikel simply desires one of the best for his membership, and I do fee that. I do fee the eagerness and the way laborious he works to simply attempt to get the perfect for our membership once more, as a result of that’s all all of us need. However come on, mate, when you’re going to rant a minimum of present some context and a few reasoning. I additionally suppose he ought to direct his anger at those that have constructed this squad and people who’s mission we’re following – The SDs.
He’s completely proper to boost issues, however I feel hammering them away on this means is simply not constructive.
In all honesty, I’ll by no means doubt the intentions and ambitions of our house owners, I imagine they need us to succeed. I hold going again to the truth that this can be a enterprise and it HAS to succeed to revenue. So whether or not they perceive the membership tradition or not, profitable is what they have to prioritise and that’s the reason I imagine they do have the ambitions and intentions to do this. It’s simply the way in which they’re going about it and the individuals they’ve handed the keys to run it.
Mikel would do properly so as to add in a little bit of considerate concerns and context to his rants! However I do agree with most of the different issues he has known as out, and it does take bravery for a former participant to name issues out in the way in which he has achieved while many others will simply keep quiet.
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Simon Phillips
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