Mikel on refusing to join Manchester United: If I choose Manchester United, three compatriots will be sacked【hongyan】

    Mikel refused to join Manchester United to choose Chelsea in the past, once caused a great deal of discussion. Not long ago in the Champions League final, Mikel showed a photo with Ferguson, said Sir Alex Ferguson should forgive me now? Mikel even held up the Manchester United shirt that year, according to the caliber of the media, Manchester United spent 4 million pounds to sign Mikel.
   

    However, Chelsea later released a statement indicating that an agreement had been reached with Mikel. Mikel himself also said that Manchester United's agreement was invalid, because there was no agent present when signing with Manchester United, the old club Leon also exerted pressure, his own personal will is to join Chelsea, after FIFA mediation, Chelsea to Manchester United compensation 12 million pounds, the matter ended. What happened in the meantime? In fact, Mikel has already explained why in a column, in theplayerstribune column, Mikel talks about this past episode, and a brief excerpt.

"My father was not happy about what happened, he wanted me to go to Manchester United because he liked Alex Ferguson and back home in Nigeria a lot of people told me to go to Manchester United because they are better at developing young players and Chelsea only sign superstars.

    I was only 18 at the time and Chelsea had players like Frank Lampard, Michael Ballack and Claude Makelele and a lot of people in Nigeria wondered if I was really going to make it in the first team. So why did I join Chelsea? I'll tell you what happened, people on both sides argued about me, agents, managers, strangers, Ferguson called me personally, Abramovich set me up personally, he put me in London, hid me somewhere only a few people knew about.

You know what made me decide? Chelsea signed three other Nigerian players besides me, they lived with me in the house in London with me, their fate depended on me, if I went to Manchester United, they had to leave, if I went to Chelsea, they would start their career at Chelsea. However long (their careers) last, which is important to me, just give them a chance, you know? So I made a choice.

    In fact, most people are not entangled in Mikel to join Chelsea this matter, most people are actually entangled in Kenyon as Chelsea CEO, Manchester United's list of referrals to Chelsea this matter. At that time, Manchester United was in the process of change, Mikel joined Chelsea a year before and after, Manchester United was in the critical period of Glazer's takeover of Manchester United, which even affected the pattern of the Premier League.