All this fuss about John Obi Mikel (AKA Mikel John Obi) and why? Oh yeah, we're in the midst of a credit crunch and Chelsea are desperately trying to scrape together enough pennies to pay the TV licence. Do me a favour Mr. Abramovich.
The truth will come out as it always does. Bruce Buck will pen a book, just in time for Christmas, that will be serialised in the Daily Express.
The real reason the Blues are opening legal proceedings against Mikel's (or should that be 'Obi's') former club, Lynn Oslo, to recoup the £16m (this isn't a typo!) transfer fee they paid for the Tracy Chapman lookalike is because they realise just how badly fleeced they were.
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Mikel is no Winston Bogarde, no Mateja Kezman, no Slavisa Jokanovic. The boy can play, but is he quite as good as they believed he would be?
After all, Chelsea paid off Manchester United in order to let Mikel join them despite United already agreeing terms with the player, with £12m of the £16m transfer fee going to Old Trafford. They badly wanted him, but Sir Alec must still be smiling about that one.
Or maybe Chelsea have followed Gordon Brown's lead and thought 'fuck it, the Government are taking on Iceland, nows the time for us to give it to their Scandinavian neighbours!' They do seem to think they can do as they please.
I dunno, it's a funny ole game (cliché crime, and a Jimmy Greaves catchphrase to boot, I can only apologise).
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The truth will come out as it always does. Bruce Buck will pen a book, just in time for Christmas, that will be serialised in the Daily Express.
The real reason the Blues are opening legal proceedings against Mikel's (or should that be 'Obi's') former club, Lynn Oslo, to recoup the £16m (this isn't a typo!) transfer fee they paid for the Tracy Chapman lookalike is because they realise just how badly fleeced they were.
Mikel is no Winston Bogarde, no Mateja Kezman, no Slavisa Jokanovic. The boy can play, but is he quite as good as they believed he would be?After all, Chelsea paid off Manchester United in order to let Mikel join them despite United already agreeing terms with the player, with £12m of the £16m transfer fee going to Old Trafford. They badly wanted him, but Sir Alec must still be smiling about that one.
Or maybe Chelsea have followed Gordon Brown's lead and thought 'fuck it, the Government are taking on Iceland, nows the time for us to give it to their Scandinavian neighbours!' They do seem to think they can do as they please.
I dunno, it's a funny ole game (cliché crime, and a Jimmy Greaves catchphrase to boot, I can only apologise).
