In fact, op can only state here that he has personal issues with Mikel Obi than what he just stated here. I see hatred with anger from the op.

As Op stated here, If Mikel were to be all that bad, was he chosen by himself or his parents to have made the best 3 by CAF? Was Mikel nominated by Nigerians ONLY?
What of Drogba making it and Iyama you mentioned here never made it?
You call Mikel bench warmer in his club? Remember it is very rear having one play with a club like Chelsea and note for your information, Mikel is NEVER bench warmer as you stated and tell me who among Chelsea player that plays week in and week out?

Even if you are having issues with Mikel, that will not change his salary and poor you is here ranting when nobody from your family is successful. This is someone talent you want to destroy and can you tell me why you cannot make the team of voters that nominated these players and vet your anger on Mikel?
Give me the name of any of your family member or sibling that has contributed to Nigeria development? Do not hide under this cover of nairaland and be ranting and asking people to run your fellow country man down because of a position any of your family member and generation can EVER attend in their life time? Answer these questions hater and envious man.

omar22:

Matic is a box to box player like Essien who could also play as destroyer like Tiote and Chelsea are concerned about his buyout clause

Yes he's a box to box midfielder that flourish in Benfica set-up. I don't think Chelsea would give him same responsibilities as Benfica when there are like players in Ramires, Essien even Lampard lately etc.

OP GO AND DIE

In fact, op can only state here that he has personal issues with Mikel Obi than what he just stated here. I see hatred with anger from the op.

As Op stated here, If Mikel were to be all that bad, was he chosen by himself or his parents to have made the best 3 by CAF? Was Mikel nominated by Nigerians ONLY?
What of Drogba making it and Iyama you mentioned here never made it?
You call Mikel bench warmer in his club? Remember it is very rear having one play with a club like Chelsea and note for your information, Mikel is NEVER bench warmer as you stated and tell me who among Chelsea player that plays week in and week out?

Even if you are having issues with Mikel, that will not change his salary and poor you is here ranting when nobody from your family is successful. This is someone's talent you want to destroy and can you tell me why you cannot make the team of voters that nominated these players and vet your anger on Mikel?
Give me the name of any of your family member or sibling that has contributed to Nigeria's development? Do not hide under this cover of nairaland and be ranting and asking people to run your fellow country man down because of a position any of your family member and generation can EVER attend in their life time? Answer these questions hater and envious man.

Historically,AFBP award is erratic one,that doesn't have a basis or dogma to follow,and recently,it has become 'mediocre and clumsy' award to order football award in the world. Realistically, some recent past winners have scooped the award based either on club performances or basking in the success of their country achievement:some gotten the award based on their individual performances, while others won it based on their team which is either country or club achievement in that particular year. Furthermore, Frederick Kanoute, got the award based on club performances which he was even mediocre and blacksheep of his club(Sevilla)then, Emmanuel Adebayor, scooped the award whilst in Arsenal because he was one of the top scorer in EPL then, and he made his country(Togo)qualified for the Afcon and world cup to Germany 2006, et al,. Realistically, Yaya toure,is currently performing well than (Obi), in his club but, the award is not meant for current performance only,but entails past acheivement for both club and country which vividly shown that Mikel has the edge this time than Yaya if their acheivement so far for thier nations and clubs has any to go by. S,Eto, got the award four times consecutively mostly at the expense of Okocha because he was countinued to perform well for both his country and club,and countinued to score then which means he only got the award based on scoring than others then and being in a big club than others made him the best over others then. In my own candid opinion,if the 2012/2013 season has anything to go by, then Mikel, deserves to be a winner of the award this time,because he(Mikel) has performed and achieved a 'remarkable and stellar' performances for both club and country than any other African players irrespective of their countries or clubs. Finally, I wholeheartedly cast my vote for Mikel Obi. Mikel is the AFBP for 2012/2013 winner in advance!

safarigirl: MIKEL OBI. Football is a team sport, not an individual game, hence, I'll pick the one person who can help the cause of the team, not one oversabi. Lamouche had Toure in his team and they were kicked out, Keshi had Mikel and won AFCON. Now answer your question without a biased mind.

Very biased. Yaya will do his job and even score match winning goals in tough matches for you. As for mikel, just pray cos he might just be dispossesed of the ball that will allow the opposition to score the winning goal against your team. At some point, chelsea fans shouted in fear when mikel held the ball.

omar22:

Well he won Serie A, with Juve, got to the quarter final of the CL. Cannavaro is one of the most expensive defenders and one of the best

you forgot cannavaro also won the world cup that year.....and no other player performed to expectation.....zidane was the closest competitor and he was injured for almost the whole season for real madrid

Lwkmd @op...u refer to mikel as a bench warmer...what will u call mata,luiz n ashley cole dis season are dey also bench warmerz?mikel dat playez 90min in all d major trophiez chelsea won..u still refer to him as a mere player...do u fink if he is not important to the team..chelsea wudnt hv dispose him long ago?if mikel is destined to win it....oga no amount of ur beef can stop dat...okocha even wif all his individual ability..eto o was still given d CAF award,wesly sneidjer at d world cup,mr messi was still choosen ahead of him....so i see nafin bad if mikel winz it...

Haba haba, y are some of u goin to d extent of abusin OP and his family? All cos of football. Cant u ppl just post ur comment without insults and abuse? It make u ppl look uncivilized. D OP state his opinion, u can countered it too without any abuse or insults pls.

chelseaguy:

Yes he's a box to box midfielder that flourish in Benfica set-up. I don't think Chelsea would give same responsibilities as Benfica when there are like players in Ramires, Essien even Lampard lately etc.

Essien is leaving this window and Lampard may not get another contract after his current one finishes in June

Kog45: Walahi,if Mikel wins this award,people go die.If ex players like okocha,Ikpeba and Kanu are saying Mikel deserves the award,who are you to tell us he doesn't deserve it.Mikel deserves it because he is among the last three contenders and any of the three can be pronounced winner.Enyeama issue is very simple,he came strongly into reckoning three months ago and for that he doesn't deserve it.The only Nigeria that deserves to be in the last three is Mikel whether a regular player in Chelsea or Mr backpass.The highest football body in Africa nominated someone for Africa footballer of the year,you are here posting stupid thread"Mikel winning Africa footballer of the year award is an insult to you"not Africa football.Posting such thread about your fellow Nigerian on the verge of being honour tells me how we reason in this country.A cote d voire or a Ghanaian will never post such thread,even if the player is an handicap.Please learn to be your brothers keeper.

BROTHER KEEPER,That is why evil kept on the rise in Nigeria because we keep protecting our evil friends and brother in the name of Brothers keeper.

Kog45: Walahi,if Mikel wins this award,people go die.If ex players like okocha,Ikpeba and Kanu are saying Mikel deserves the award,who are you to tell us he doesn't deserve it.Mikel deserves it because he is among the last three contenders and any of the three can be pronounced winner.Enyeama issue is very simple,he came strongly into reckoning three months ago and for that he doesn't deserve it.The only Nigeria that deserves to be in the last three is Mikel whether a regular player in Chelsea or Mr backpass.The highest football body in Africa nominated someone for Africa footballer of the year,you are here posting stupid thread"Mikel winning Africa footballer of the year award is an insult to you"not Africa football.Posting such thread about your fellow Nigerian on the verge of being honour tells me how we reason in this country.A cote d voire or a Ghanaian will never post such thread,even if the player is an handicap.Please learn to be your brothers keeper.

THEN WHAT IF THE DESERVE WINNER YAYA WIN IT?

Personally I think any AFOTY in any year should be the first African mentioned when FIFA rates players as they do annually.
Back to the topic let's ask ourselves honestly between the quartet of Mikel;Yaya and Enyeama abi na Drogba sef who do you think based on the calender year 2013 deserved to be rated first and higher than the other three if you rate footballers worldwide.

Keep the answer to your self cause I suspect pride and sentiments will take control of your fingers when you start to type; but you all know who will be number 1 in your mind.

amobii:

Some people does not have a brain at all, you said Mikel warms bench in europe, even he does its not his choice because the coach then does prefer another to the role, but when another coach came he started using his 1st eleven. Just leave the panel to decide and stop bad mouthibg someone career.

But all we know is by now he is warming it full stop

hollyfat: Even when Fredick Kanuote of Mali won the award in 2007 at expense of Drogba and Essien you didn't see that has a disgrace to African football. Mtchew

hey listen pls, have u 4gotten that year was one of d best for Kanoute. He was among d top scorers in La liga and also won d UEFA cup with sevilla back to back wit Rafeal Benitez as d coach inwhich Kanoute was one of d best player nt only in Sevilla bt also in La Liga

safarigirl: MIKEL OBI. Football is a team sport, not an individual game, hence, I'll pick the one person who can help the cause of the team, not one oversabi. Lamouche had Toure in his team and they were kicked out, Keshi had Mikel and won AFCON. Now answer your question without a biased mind.

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...

lolaxavier:

FINDINGS
You have successfully proven to the whole world your inability to understand topics especially around 1.30 in the morning when you posted this comment. Ki la n wi, ki lo n so...It's either you deliberately strayed away from the topic or you're too tired to think at night, hence your mumu post.


CONCLUSION & RECOMMENDATION: Please stop making contributions to subject matters in the dead of night especially around 1.30am.

What is wrong with that? your 1.30 am maybe early morning to another person from another country,please try to be on point not under it

bettermike: Count the best Nigerian players in Afcon, mikel will come a distant sixth! Emenike, Moses, Onazi, Oboagona, Omeruo then mikel and the rest.

:O , without Mikel what will those pple do on the pitch

Its simple people, what the OP is saying is true. But sentiments wont let,most peeps look at the actual thing. I.e. Pkaying football and helping your team move forward in matches. Yaya toura is a light years ahead of mikel, dont even compare ATALL!! have you noticed how without toure that middle in man city is pourous? Without mikel chelsea migt even play better(not hating) truth is yaya toure still deserves the award otan!

alobright1010: THEN WHAT IF THE DESERVE WINNER YAYA WIN IT?

Price of Garri might go up in Nigeria out of anger

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.

bettermike: Count the best Nigerian players in Afcon, mikel will come a distant sixth! Emenike, Moses, Onazi, Oboagona, Omeruo then mikel and the rest.

aiit let just say u ar right, but how come he keeps winning trophies with any team he is with? Can u c d difference between mikel n okocha?

Dynast: Who is best defensive midfielder in Chelsea fc? Mind u this is African footballer of the year and not BBC footballer of the year. Okocha won BBC footballer of the year 3 times but never won CAF footballer of the year.What substantial measurement have you to equate Yaya Toure and Mike. Mikel has 2 lorels. Voted man of the match in one of the CAF nations cup, has golden medal of CAF Nations CHAPIONSHIP and Europa cup winner. What will you equate yaha with, playing very well like Ibrahimovich against C. Ronaldo who snatched world cup ticket from him.

when ronaldinho won the best player in the world for the first time he never won any trophy then,CR7 never won any trophy last season yet he is among the top 3 for the award, what is been count is individual performance remember there is best team award and best clubs award too

Movingcoil: if u can't tolerate it, u can still go and install transformer in ur mum's punny, do some conduit wiring in her hole, crawl inside der and electrocute ur miserable self cos 2014 just arrived and id!otic, slimy idiota like u should have gone extinct.
And for saying dat itz an insult for mikel to win it, insults shall never depart from ur house
noting good will ever come ur way since u are annoyed of something good happening to anoda person.
May ur sisters feed u by hawking their punnies and making returns dz yr.
You shall owe like hell dat u will prefer suicide as ur hope.
May ur dad sit down and never stand again

Imagine wat this fool is saying.

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So becos Brown Ideye won the nations playing most of the matches and Drogba and Samuel Eto'o did not win abi play sef Ideye is a better player and should be rated above them both.
Logic twisted on its head

omar22:

Matic is a box to box player like Essien who could also play as destroyer like Tiote and Chelsea are concerned about his buyout clause

And what are u insunauating ??
every top club would always want to strengthen its team more no matter how good it is by buying more players in almost every trandfer window.
Barca had messi already but still went 4 neymar,Madrid had Ronaldo and Ozil but still went for bale,Chelsea already had Hazard,oscar and mata but still went for willian and schurrle.
Its strengthening of team.
Na today chelsea start 2 dey buy new midfielders ??
And BTW Van-ginkel is injured till end of season,Micheal essien would likely be leaving few days 4rm now.
Hence leaving ONLY 3 midfielders;-Mikel,Lampard and Ramires.
Too thin for a top team challenging 4 tittles and considering d mighty heap of matches chelsea would play till d end of season.So
Chelsea has every need to buy a new midfielder to replace essien/van-ginkel.
No top team challenging 4 tittles would play with only 3 midfielders for a season.
That is why chelsea a chasing a new midfielder.
For depth in midfield.

Infact, OP you have just made my list of 2014 biggest fool. quite unfortunately, you made it so early. If Mikel is a bench warmer in Chelsea then all Chelsea players are bench warmers( from logical premises) because Chelsea is the only team in Europe without First Eleven, even the almighty Eden Hazard, Ramires Lampard, and even Torres smells Bench. So get your facts right before you come and split heresies here. Tell me one outstanding four in chelsea FC that is better than Mikel. you are a fool to say Mikel doesnt deserve Africa best Yeye Tura that deserved it how many trophy can he boost since joined Man City or is it because he is playing in a club where he is like one eye man in the land of the blind. Have you asked yourself a question? Why did they sack Mancini? if you do not know get it once and for all is because the management felt is using old and tired leg like Yeye Tura and Silver go do your research well. If you understand thorough technicalities that involve in Football you will know that no Club with a player like Mikel will want to discard him. reason been that not only that Mikel does dirty Job of a four. but if you want to distabilised your opponent game plan and force them to play nonsense positioned Mikel in the Midfield and watch what will happen if you dispute it go ask Bacelona and Bayern Munich they will tell you. If you Watch last Chelsea Match against Liverpool that same techniques was deployed by MH and it work for them.you are a born scallywags who thinks he can wake up from the wrong side of the bed to hip undeserved Insult to the only outstanding Nigeria footballer playing in Diaspora. You have done creditably well in your profession please lets see your profile. He goat like you after drinking Garri the next destination to pour you poor frustrating living standard is to come and attack Nigeria illustrious son in Nairaland. since, you started with these i will pray for you thus: May your entire genealogy lack somebody as famous an Mikel (Amen) Anuohia like you. Do your proper analysis and tell me out of the three contestants which one is better than Mikel, Am sure they both played against Nigeria when Mikel single handedly beat them to it and made away with AFCON trophy. abi shey drug(ba) (apology to all chelsea fan) and yeye Tura no play for that game. You are so annoying that you dont even have a thinking cap to differentiate a bench warmer and a player that is being used when neccessary and according to technical dictate of the coach as for me the only well know Bench warmer in Chelsea is Essien and partly is suffering that because of Mikel form. My brother go and settle any grudge you have with Mikel or his family and face reality, this is Mikel Obi time and am proud of him anytime, anyday.

We quickly forget that mikel was almost surplus to requirement at the start of this season (even with Morinho at the helms). He was seriously warming bench last season and Galatasary came calling but they couldnt pay so mikel was forced to stay. Now he has started 7matches and he's already Africa's best?! Hello!

dubienatti: aiit let just say u ar right, but how come he keeps winning trophies with any team he is with? Can u c d difference between mikel n okocha?

Chelsea has been winning trophies before Mikel arrived, he won nothing with Lynn in Norway, the problem with Okocha is that with all his skill his game lack end product until late in his career unlike someone like Kanu or Finidi

why did drogba make the final 3??

bettermike: If the award is supposed to motivate African players to be outstanding where ever they are, then giving the award to mikel will be a big calamity. Players will no longer see it important to remain first 11. They'll say, "i dont need to work hard. I'll just encourage my teammates from the bench to win trophies and i'll surely become Africa's best"

no my dear, if it's supposed to motivate African players to be outstanding, give it to Mikel, else, there will be no reason to play AFCON, they can say "I won't go for national assignments anymore, I'll just say I'm sick when it's time for AFCON/WC Qualifiers, lemme give 100% to my club, fuq my country.". Such slave mentality.