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

striker9: @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......................

safarigirl: 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.

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...

Paroman: why curse his parents?? U are obviously nothing but an uncivilised fool!'!

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

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.

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

omar22:

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!

This is coming from Miss Vincent Enyeama Safari, Your now supporting Mikel after you have put all your weight behind Enyeama and Emenike

safarigirl: 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.

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?

omar22:

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

ENZO SCIFO: 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:

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

c++_crazy:
ur mum is an uncivilized fool just like ur dad... And honeric 4ck U for banning me... Let seun even ban me from nairaland at least to save me all dz useless mb I do waste while seeing stupid comments. Like I said... I dont give a Bleep shey na till march 2014 my ban go end. Honeric01 4k u a million times for banning me, u feel am scared or wat. Honeric01 if u no ban dz my present moniker, may ur mum habe jundice in her punny. D guy dat quoted me, vultures will rape ur wife, ur mum, ur sisters and grandmothers

heykims: It is January and very soon , the African footballer of the year 2013 will be named in Lagos Nigeria precisely on the 9th of January. The player to be crowned with this feat should however be very much evaluated and deemed fit to earn this prestigious honour because his personality on the field of play either in the national team or club will go a long way in speaking for African football.

CAF released the final 10-man shortlist of the contenders of this prestigious award last year and interestingly, four Nigerian players made the list. Many Nigerians and even Africans have however tipped John Obi Mikel as the possible winner evident from the fact that he won the Nations cup last year, Europa cup in Europe, participated in d Confederations cup and so on.

MY VIEW
As a Nigerian and a proud African, I see it as not just underscoring but extremely insulting to African football if a player like Mikel wins the award. How can a mere bench warmer in Europe be crowned the African footballer of the year just by virtue of the fact that his national team wins a title or his club wins the European league?

A deserving footballer of the hear should be such that is very resourceful both at home and in clubs. A reigning footballer of the year should at least even make the top three best player in his club even if he doesn't get a spot in the FIFA ranking.

Mikel Obi surely can't make the best ten in Chelsea's team despite being a senior player. I'm of the view that its better not to name anyone the footballer of the year than titling a bench warmer in Europe, what a mock, an insult I can't tolerate as an African.

Nigerians should be please stop being sentimental, selfish and self centred and canvass for a better representative for African football.

Left to me, if at all a Nigerian merits the award, it is Vincent Enyeama, the Nigeria's assistant skipper at goal but Cote d'Ivoire's Yaya Toure surely represents Africa better.

What's your view?

psammyJ: 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...

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.

El Guapo:

There you are, shooting yourself right on the foot.

The Op thinks it would be ludicrous to crown Mikel the APOY by the virtue of the laurels he won with club and country, how come Cannavaro fits in with same criterias?

Fabio was probably one of the best defs in 2006 when he won the world best player award but wasnt the best player in the world, his achievements served as an edge.

Same has got to apply with Mikel, be him a bench warmer or not, he's a success and has always been an integral member of the Chelsea team until latter gaffers setted in with the rotation policy - a system that mitigates even the best players' playing chances.

c++_crazy:
ur mum is an uncivilized fool just like ur dad... And honeric 4ck U for banning me... Let seun even ban me from nairaland at least to save me all dz useless mb I do waste while seeing stupid comments. Like I said... I dont give a Bleep shey na till march 2014 my ban go end. Honeric01 4k u a million times for banning me, u feel am scared or wat. Honeric01 if u no ban dz my present moniker, may ur mum habe jundice in her punny. D guy dat quoted me, vultures will rape ur wife, ur mum, ur sisters and grandmothers

bettermike: 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!

bettermike: Sweerie, if you are saying players come to Afcon just to win Afcon best player award, then you've missed it completely. Players go to nations cup because its their duty to country for first! Probably to win it and make more history as team. Wait a min, where did you get that idea from btw?

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?

daverebranded: is ribery a better player to messi or cr7 but we all believe he should win it for those same reasons i believe Mikel should win drogba doesn't deserve to be in d final 3 that's d disgrace to me and this op am sure wasn't happy Mikel helped this country win the afcon or didn't he watch ivory coast vs naija Mike out classed yaya in the midfield die if u don't agree Nigerians do...

heykims:
In short, Mikel is d heart if Chelsea. Clap for ursef...
I can't just imagine it, CHELSEA'S MIKEL winning AFOY, it will summarize African football as a huge joke nd other African footballers a bunch of jokers....

safarigirl: what bloody duty? Where was KP Boateng when Ghana needed him? My dear, if Mikel decides to not play for Nigeria tomorrow, he won't lose anything. Nobody has a duty to do squat! They do it because they want to do it, because of the recognition that comes with it, duty ke? What a joke! No be una been dey insult Mikel those days when e dey make excuses to not play? So tey Tu face go do song for am, yet you say he doesn't add anything to the team. Now that he's playing his heart out, una still dey insult am, will you ever be satisfied?

striker9: 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.