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bettermike: I should be asking you if you watch football bro. Mikel and Moses didnt even play in the Uefa cup final. They were benched. I remember Benitez converting Luiz to 4 because mikel was wack! Please get your facts right. Forget rotation jor, Morinho is the reason mikel's starting. Many people now know Morinho to be a player helper. Even Drogba confessed in his book how Morinho would encourage him to tackle other players roughly just to get a red so he could be with his family. Morinho is simply helping mikel for Afcon simple. Believe it or not. Remember, this is the same guy that contemplated selling mikel o.

Moses didn't play in the finals,I though he gave Torres an assist by heading down a ball from set pieces.

Ukeachu1: I see u

bros,na admire I admire her o,abeg no vex.

omar22: Cannavarro wasnt the main man and Captain of the Azzuri team at the world cup, it was Alessandro Nesta who got injured and Cannavaro stepped up for a team that was battered due to the defensive set up Lippi made that's why Cannavaro stood out most especially against the host in the Semi's and in the Serie A Juve won it....

Did Mikel stand out as the main man for Nigeria at the Nations Cup? may be one game when he made 2 telling passes! but not like he is the main man.
Last season in the league Did Mikel stand out for Chelsea? No, I could remember Mikel getting death treats on twitter for making some high profile mistakes that led to goals, if you ask all the SKYSPORT/BBC SPORT pundits honestly no one rates him higher than average. some will say yeah oyinbo this and that, then ask them about Yaya Toure?

I know you will repeat your previous argument about his twitter threat,it was only the mistake against Juve,Terry has committed more blunder,please look for another flimsy excuse.Oh did you remember the latest Essien's assist?no one is talking about that,but you can dig mikel's archive.

pweetixandy: Omg! that hoodedd black shirt,*dies*

Lol,damn your pretty!

PurpleHouse: dude!!!!
All the coach that once benches Mikel, gets sack! You Know why?
Mikel is Chelsea and Chhelsea is Mikel..... Every coach that came to Mikel thinks Mikel is a "Jarah" but when they do get to know what he brings to the table, he becomes indispensable!
No wonder Di Mateo once praised mikel as the "engine of Chelsea, a player many clubs don't know how dangerous he could be, except for Chelsea!"

underate Mikel at your own peril..... Many Managers have come and gone, but Mikel remains a die-hard Chelsea Whiz-Lord-General!!!
Go ask Drogba everything about Mikel, or you think it was a fluke tha Gala wanted him by all means last season? Drogba knows the quality of a Player that fed him with long range passes for years at chelsea!
Point is: No Manager at his right sense will bench Mikel without getting lashed and lost in the Middle of midfield, before being sacked! Mikel Rules Man, we just seem to underate him far too much.

You are on point,avb benched him,chelsea performance was woeful,di matteo came and we saw what happened when he gave mikel playing time.Benitez wanted to form badoo by benching him.but he quickly came back to his senses.

heykims: OMG, see ds human bean dey talk in d garb of sentiments. This is sentiment presented in black nd white. Mikel is even just enjoying ds bit of playing time courtesy of d fact dt Mourinho is d manager. We all know how he faired wt d past Chelsea managers. No manager will ever come to Etihad nd retire Yaya to d bench, a characteristic of an ideal title winner.
No reasonable coach will eva choose Mikel over Yaya. My God.
The financial value of Mikel can't even be up to Yaya's slashed to two.
Abeg let's be realistic now...

This statement has justified when you started watching football.

chelseaguy: Still a rumour my friend besides Matic is a Central Midfielder. I hope you know your football?

Mikel has been through a lot and challenges,bringing a new midfielder won't pose any threat towards him.

omar22: According to Benithez who only confirmed that Hazard, Moses and JT were doubtful

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11668/8701757/rafa-benitez-coy-on-selection-for-europa-league-final

He mentioned them as being doubtful,but Mikel was already ruled out due to injury,next time get your facts right.

naija noni: Bro did you watch d back of ur t.v or was ur t.v black and white ??.
Mikel was just returning 4rm a hip injury. moses too wasnt 100% fit.Benitez didnt say any shiit.
Ramires didnt even play in any midfield,he played on d RIGHT WING.
Lampard patnered luiz in midfield.
Last season When mikel didnt start,he was always on d bench(d chelsea squad was too thing).
But in d finals,Mikel WASN'T EVEN ON THE BENCH,he wasnt listed in d 18 man list for d match.
Ake a reserve player was on d bench.
Mikel was not FIT,he just recovered 4rm injury few days before d finals.
Here is Mikel's injury/suspension history:-

Hip/Thigh Injury01/05/13 to 13/05/13 (EL finals was 16/05/13)
Knee Injury27/12/12 to 04/01/13
Suspended06/12/12 to 24/12/12
Hamstring23/12/11 to 09/02/12
Back Injury01/11/11 to 05/11/11
Knee Injury02/01/11 to 14/01/11
Knee Injury22/04/10 to 15/05/10

Brother!wagbayi,let him come explain to us where he got his own info,na wa o.OMAR22,come out ooooooooo,I laugh in swahili.

pumpingmachine: abegi you are all the same. What is good in suggesting that someone, your compatriot, is not good enough for the African title? Mikel has won 2EPL, One Champions league title, one Europa league, nations cup, FA. . . And he led the Super Eagles to victory. If u don't like him, just shut up. Do u think if Mikel sees this thread, he would be proud of playing for Nigeria? And you are talking nonsense. Mr. Analyst, analyze that

Apparently you are intelligent,the guy na mumu.

damoobaba: I hav learnt nt to join words with your people again.Being stupid is jst ur second nature and it makes no sense trying to take d crown from ur ethnic group.The OP was jst being realistic,and even tipped Enyeama as a better candidate than Mikel. Any good analyst will tell u same thing.

You obviously too dumb to understand my post,abeg fade!

omar22: So when Adebayor won in 2008, what medal did he have ?

Please clarify your self on your claim that Mikel was benched in the finals of Europa,I thought you were gonna prove me wrong when I said he was injured.

naija noni: And u claim u follow chelsea very well.
FYI Mikel WAS INJURED towards the end of the season(including d europa cup finals).That
Mikel wasnt even listed on d bench,while Ake and and some reserve players were listed,confirmed his injury.
Also benitez used mostly fringe players for europa league matches(d likes of ake,benayoun,moses,torres,e.t.c).
While he used d 1st team players in d league matches becos he.
prioritized Making top 4 over winning d EL.It was only in d finals that benitez fielded the full 1st team,but mikel was injured.
Mata and Oscar started only TWO matches in d europa league out of 7 matches.
Mikel started 1 match.

Don't mind him,you should have allowed him continue spewing rubbish,we all know Mikel was injured prior to the finals,let's see what his gonna say now.

Philistine: Hello Guys, I am a chelsea Fan,so i do not have any grudge against mikel. But let's call a spade a spade,it will be an insult on africa if a player in the calibre of mikel obi wins the AFOY award,he simply does not deserve the award,Enyeama should have been nominated instead of mikel. Nigerians pls stop been sentimental.

Nigerians will stop being sentimental when Caf stop being bias.Why was drogba picked ahead of Enyeama?

omar22: He didnt have any injury, Rafa Benithez said Ramires has the speed to cope with Benfica's Namanja Matic in the midfield, it was John Terry and Hazard that were injured.

hahahahahahahahaha,I laugh in Kigali

omar22: He was on the bench in the final, he wasn't instrumental for Chelsea winning the trophy!

If your talking about europa,he had injury during that time,get ur fact right.

safarigirl: lol, this after making the controversial statement "...it's those in his geographical area that support him..." niggur please don't kill ma vibe. Love indeed.

Don't mind him,me confirm Yoruba boi will support Mikel anyday anytime,na only igbo dey watch epl?that op statement is lame.

Iamzuna: @OP.. Its very obvious that you started watching football just recently. What you should consider first is that the award is for African excellence and not for European excellence. Do you think Yaya winning the award is not an insult to African football also? Well the reason why African football is backwards is because we only want to give these awards to player who flourish in Europe (not even flourish but sometimes its as bad as them just playing good for their club sides) and forget the heroes who make the African game worth watching. I am sure you will say a Zambian player does not deserve the award last year and you will also support that the Egyptian Aboutrika does not deserve to win the award at least twice. Now lets go to other continents, do you think its just players who do well in Europe that wins the best player award from those continents? Africa will want to copy from Europeans and Europeans are just selecting players from their own league (or have you seen the best player in South America compete for the EFOTY (before it was merged with FFOTY)). Now coming to the world cup calender year, why do you think that irrespective of the club performance its only the best at the world cup that wins the award *barring Messi 2010*(though his performance that year was something else). Once a major tournament takes place that year, the winner of the best player award should come from that tournament and i think for once it has to happen in Africa and since Mikel is the only one representing the champion of Africa then he has to win it. Also he does not play for a small team so he just has to win it.
Concerning the bench warmer argument, i think you guys have to start watching football all over again and understand that there is a difference between team rotation and bench warming. How can you argue that Mikel is a bench warmer when he is obviously getting much more playing time than Essien. Dont forget that there are other players in Chelsea that will leave this January and yet Mikel remains in the coach's plan and you call him a bench warmer.... Mourinho rotates his players and that is the reason why Mikel has had to sometimes sit on the bench and for your information Mikel is not a bench warmer and he has a better and a more successful last season than Yaya (generally not individually) so he has a claim for that award not for his performance in club (europe) but for his performance in the same AFRICAN football. For me all three players dont deserve to win the award as Eyeama or Petriopa should have won clearly (the later being the best player of the tournament).

You sir,you are a very intelligent man,thanks for reminding us its an African award and not european.I want Enyeama to win it,but its obvious he was axed to pave way for Yaya.

pweetixandy: jUne 1st

omg!those eyeballs,*faints*

Kog45: Walahi,if Mikel wins this award,people go die.

lol

They weren't really interested about Nigeria,its obvious they know next to nothing about Super eagles,even iran is confident on getting 3points off naija just like that.Only one guy mentioned naija players up there,and he doesn't even know much about them.

naija noni: Of course enyeama deserves d award over mikel.
But he wasn't nominated.
Another nigerian was=Mikel
Nobody is sayin Mikel is better dan Yaya.
Or Mikel's individual performance was better than Yaya.
If Yaya wins it,Okay.But its none of my business.
He's not 4rm my country,he doesnt play 4 d club i support.
If Mikel wins i'll be happy becos he 's 4rm my country and he plays 4 my club.
It might give him more confidence
and that could also affect d nigerian national team and chelsea in a good way.
Una dey carry am for head like say if mikel wins the award,them go sack u for work or u go fail ur exam or u go commit suicide.

Exactly my point,it will be a good news for us if a Nigerian wins the award.Its like Enyeama was intentionally omitted cause he might dent Yaya's hope,but mikel on the other hand would be an easy run over.Nigerians think!

heykims: Im a Nigerian nd I hold nothing against Mikel as a player, in fact am a fan esp then when he represented Nigeria in d U21 category in d world cup back in 2005. I just like to be factual.
U re right Mikel is doing what he does best, but unfortunately some others re doing it better.
Ans ds:
does it make sense for a palyer who warms d bench in europe to come to africa nd is crowned d footballer of d year? Pls just YES or NO..

I didn't comment on this topic about who deserves APOTY,but bad mouthing the guy is just pathetic.Why kick someone that is already down,this guy get criticized on little or no mistake,pressure from fans because he doesn't score goals,Ghanian hating cause Essien has been on bench,now NIGERIANs too?,ha ba!.Its not mandatory you support him but why stand against him.

heykims: .....wch is why I'm not a footballer, and am sure Mikel is also a nuisance in d profession where I flourish.

Why don't you tell us what you have achieved in your so called profession in the last 10yrs,unlike who your hating on,he has already made name internationally just in time of 10yrs.His achievements will speak for him even decades to come.

@op,its either your a clown or desperate in need of undue attention,well congrats cause you ve gotten one today.Mikel might no be an outstanding player but bad mouthing and hating on him won't do you and your entire family any good.This is a player that is serving the nation,wearing the green white green jersey just to represent his nation,its obvious you are such an ingrate cause this guy has been doing the nation proud,I'm sure you were happy when naija won the AFCON.Its such a shame the only thing you could come up with is to open a thread about him,tongue lashed him for doing what he knows how to do best.Mikel has created name for himself,why don't you in your idle time think of how to make name for yourself rather than hating on another man's way of life.Waiting for your reply......................

omar22: C Ronaldo is not only doing everything to win the Ballon D'or, but he is going for the golden ball and boot at next years World cup! Ronaldo might struggle against the Germans but against Ghana! he will run riot on ya kwaku @$$es! Ghana doesn't have a good defence and goalie! am sorry but your going to receive so serious beating this summer

I'm not Ghanian!

naija noni: I have no problem with yaya.
My only problem is why drogba was nominated ??.
Can someone tell me how drogba performed better than any of these players last year :-Emenike,Enyeama,Kwadwo Asamoah;Aubameyang ??.

Someone said its becos he won the turkish league.
Like really ??
Turkish league is rated 11th in europe(not even among d best 10 leagues).
Since it is African POTY award,should d Turkish league trophy be considered over d African afcon trophy ?
If winning d turkish league made drogba get nominated,then Ahmed musa who won the russian league(A far better league and rated 7th in europe) should have made d final 3.
Cos Ahmed musa contributed 11goals and lots of assists to CSKA Moscow winning d Russian league.
Drogba contributed ONLY 5 goals to galatasaray winning d Turkish league.

Someone said its becos of his performance in champions league(last season and dis season).
Like really ??.
Scoring only 1 goal in d champions league last season is good enough ??.
Or scoring two goals in d champions league this season??.
There was nothing fantastic about his champions league performance to make him deserve to be in d final 3.
If drogba was nominated becos of champions league,then these 2 ghanaians:-Kwadwo asamoah and Prince Boateng should've made d top 3,becos IMO they performed better than drogba in d UCL this year.

National team performance:-Was nothing to write home about.


Talking about total goals scored for both Club and Country Last year.
Drogba didnt score up to Aubameyang and Emenike last year.
His goal/per game ratio for galatasaray last year wasn't even good enough.
So can somebody Pls tell me how drogba deserves to be in d final 3 ahead of aubameyang,emenike,enyeama,Kwadwo Asamoah ?

Thanks a million,Drogba has got no business in the final 3,I think I agree with Safarigirl when she said APOTY nomination is being partial,I'm not saying anyone is better than Yaya o,before some people start to dey yarn dust.

June 26

Only Germany has got a sure ticket to the knockout stages,Ghana might surprise some of y'all.

safarigirl: first off, I never said he was close to breaking an European record, I said even IF he had broken...those 2 sentences are far from related. Secondly, since I didn't see anyone voting, I can't take anyone's word for it, or were you there when this voting took place or during the counting of votes? Are you their spokesperson? For all I know, it's all fixed, so don't give me that 'coaches and captains voted' line. No be today CAF start to dey yeye Naija. I repeat ENYEAMA deserved that third spot over Didier 'diving' Drogba or is it because Gala and La casera are in UCL? Or cuz Lille is not an EPL team? The awards is crap abeg

2013 was a good year for naija players,which the likes of Emenike,Mikel and Enyeama were outstanding.Enyeama deserve the 3rd spot,he was outstanding for club and country in 2013.I don't know what with some nairalanders,maybe they are trying to look intelligent thereby appear dumb to me,cause only a naïve person will justify Enyeama's omission from the top 3.

Hayatou can give it to anyone,na him sabi.

Congrats