rman: Mourinho should shut up.

You never recognized his ability to score goals or you always play conservative tactics even when you have only coached extremely talented teams.
The only striker to have flourished under you is Drogba. Benzema and Higuain became shadows of themselves immediately u took over Madrid. Apart from C Ronaldo that has exceptional talent, which striker has actually flourished under Mouh?

It happened to Shevy, Kezman, Torres and now Eto. You are a not the special one if you couldn't understand that Mikel was actually compared to Zidane in 2005 ,but u have turned him into a back passing, side passing can't run with the ball midfielder. What happened today is Mikel displaying the inherent talent u suppressed.

Bantino: Sharap there Mourinho, you killed our boy by assigning him a defending midfield role instead of the attacking midfield role that made him second best behind Messi

luvable sam: See him saying he didn't realize Mikel had eyes for goals. As if he wasn't the one that almost killed Mikel's talents in relation to attacking football...mtcheew....

rman: Mourinho should shut up.

You never recognized his ability to score goals or you always play conservative tactics even when you have only coached extremely talented teams.
The only striker to have flourished under you is Drogba. Benzema and Higuain became shadows of themselves immediately u took over Madrid. Apart from C Ronaldo that has exceptional talent, which striker has actually flourished under Mouh?

It happened to Shevy, Kezman, Torres and now Eto. You are a not the special one if you couldn't understand that Mikel was actually compared to Zidane in 2005 ,but u have turned him into a back passing, side passing can't run with the ball midfielder. What happened today is Mikel displaying the inherent talent u suppressed.

xtervaganza: And besides, fernandinho plays DM for man city just like Mikel for Chelsea and he has scored more for city already

airmark:


The rate at which your man utd is going down, they may find crude oil.

safarigirl: ok, and how many did Makalele score for Chelsea in the same role in ten years?

Felixjude: Mikel is a good player no doubt, but when I imagine the kind of player he would have been if not for mourinho who deployed him to the defensive mid field position, I shake my head. If u saw mikel @ the U-17 & U-20, you'd know what am talking about.
Even in the position he now plays, I do wonder why he is so scared of moving forward, in the modern game, all over the world, defensive mid field players score goals, unfortunately, he doesn't.
Therefore I don't why people are making a lot of noise, just because he has just scored one goal in as many games

Chartey:
That's really not an excuse for underperformance from Mikel. Schweinsteiger was converted from a winger to a central midfielder and he's one of the best midfielders in the game today. Ancelotti converted Ramires from a winger to a central midfielder, and he's ahead of Mikel at Chelsea. Fernandinho isn't really a defensive midfielder but he's playing the position so well at City. Please Mikel simply didn't live up to our expectation. There are many players who that happened to e.g Pato, Freddy Adu, Giovanni Dos Santos, Adiyiah(u20 golden ball winner just like Messi n Aguero), Seidou Keita(he could have been a much more better player) and a long list of others. Please leave Mourinho alone.

Swiftboy: where were you when they both played the world youth championship in Holland back in 2005/06?

Bantino: Sharap there Mourinho, you killed our boy by assigning him a defending midfield role instead of the attacking midfield role that made him second best behind Messi

Swiftboy: where were you when they both played the world youth championship in Holland back in 2005/06?

safarigirl: ok, and how many did Makalele score for Chelsea in the same role in ten years?

safarigirl: ok, and how many did Makalele score for Chelsea in the same role in ten years?

Toluwarni: Sign of greater things... I predict 20 goals for Mikel this season.. 2 down, 18 to go

Aifey: That cartey guy has d best football analysis on NL. Bravo. Abt mikel, I started liking his person at d finals in 2005 when Nigeria lost 2 howarb webb argentina + card. Mikel was spot crying like a baby on d side lines. It was so persionate. Seein tears like bebeto crying 4brazIl after loosin in d WC 94.

esshman:

Pls don't forget the fact that mikel was P'square's friend at Pepsi Academy. Meaning He probably trimmed his age for that 2005 tournament. if That's true, it is obvious that the age difference between him and Messi caused the little gap in-between them in 2005. As the two grows older, Mikel will obviously decline faster than Messi. We should rather be grateful to Mourinho for believing in him. Fergie would have dumped him just as He did Pogba, Manucho etc. Let's not forget that of all our players who have excelled at age-grade tournaments, only Mikel is close to world class. Where are Opabunmi, Chrisantus, Rabiu, Obasi, Promise, Bala Ezekiel and Yakubu Alfa?

sucess001: to the OP who is just hating...see a review by a british journalist on mikel...


this shud shame you...


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2534573/John-Obi-Mikel-How-Chelsea-man-transformed-seven-years-crucial-component.html

xtervaganza: I think you're mentally derailed. How did José ruin mikels career? By playing him ahead of equally illustrious teammates?


And Mikel a Zidane? Are you insane? How many goals did Mikel have at the 2005 u/20 world cup? Even Taiye Taiwo a fullback scored 3goals. Mikel is never a goal scorer and never will be. It was only José' forward thinking that saved mikels career by changing to a DM.




And tell me one youth prospect that played in the same position he started his career? Messi started as a winger now a forward(false 9), Nistelrooy started as a midfielder but ended up as a striker, Gerrard started as a DM later an attacking midfielder now a central midfielder, Beckham a right sided midfielder played more than half of his Madrid career as a central midfielder, pirlo from attacking midfileder to a deep lying playmaker so shut up if you don't understand football

xtervaganza: listen, my point about Mikel not scoring wasn't to demean him. Mikel is a good player but its idiotic for anybody to suggest he would flourish as an attacking midfielder, he would have failed miserably as an AM.


and let's not compare Makelele to Mikel, during Makelele's time, he was peerless, no defensive midfielder ever came close to him so much the post ion was named after him. Have u ever come across the term “Makelele role in football?



Makelele was the best DM of his time so him not scoring was never a problem. Is Mikel the best DM of his own era?

NDprudent: Ppl can talk nonsense shaa!!!! Afta mou's 1st reign @ cfc, dere has been series of coaches...y hasn't ,y of dem convertd him bak 2 an AMF?

He's doin well as a DMF, he's a great player, n he has a unique playing style.

As far as m concerned, nobody in cfc plays dat position beta dan mikel does... Giv d guy a break

thegoodjoehunt: Mikel would have excelled as a CAM. Of he wouldn't have, how come he flourished and did well against the best midfield players in national team football(Spain)?

He did well at the Nations Cup also. He was never given the opportunity, so writing him off is wrong.

Many didn't know Yaya could do well as a player in an attacking role till Mancini tried it.

Chartey:
The truth is Yaya was making forward and defense-splitting through passes even as a DM at Barca. Most of Mikel's passes are diagonal and sideways being why he's got a high completed pass rate. He rarely makes adventurous passes. If he was that good as CAM at the Confed Cup, why didn't he have so many assists? Well, you may say the strikers wasted chances and there will be some truth in that. But the thing is if Nigeria had world class AMs like Chelsea has, Mikel would be played as a DM. National teams improvise in positions where there is dearth being why Uruguay used Forlan as an AM behind Suarez and Cavani at the 2010 world cup even though he was one of the best strikers in Europe that year. Michel Bastos was also used as a left-back to good effect by Brazil even though he was the best winger on the Lyon team and maybe France that season. Mikel is decent as a DM and when Nigeria gets a great AM to partner him, the midfield will be far better than it is right now.

Chartey:
The truth is Yaya was making forward and defense-splitting through passes even as a DM at Barca. Most of Mikel's passes are diagonal and sideways being why he's got a high completed pass rate. He rarely makes adventurous passes. If he was that good as CAM at the Confed Cup, why didn't he have so many assists? Well, you may say the strikers wasted chances and there will be some truth in that. But the thing is if Nigeria had world class AMs like Chelsea has, Mikel would be played as a DM. National teams improvise in positions where there is dearth being why Uruguay used Forlan as an AM behind Suarez and Cavani at the 2010 world cup even though he was one of the best strikers in Europe that year. Michel Bastos was also used as a left-back to good effect by Brazil even though he was the best winger on the Lyon team and maybe France that season. Mikel is decent as a DM and when Nigeria gets a great AM to partner him, the midfield will be far better than it is right now.