I’ve seen quite a lot of criticism for John Obi Mikel, however I’ve additionally seen different followers fully backing him and recognize the very fact he’s on the market within the public eye with a big voice, combating the great battle for our membership.
I can see why Mikel annoys folks. A few of his opinions are wild, erratic, and excessive. Generally he goes approach excessive and his opinions contradict his earlier views.
One minute he’s assembly with the homeowners and bigging them up, the subsequent minute he’s slating them for a 60 minute Podcast! One minute he’s slating Nico Jackson, the subsequent he’s telling us to again the gamers. I fully see all this and individuals are proper to name it out.
After all, anybody with a Podcast is there for it to generate income with the odd exception that they could simply get pleasure from it as a pastime. So after all the wilder the opinions then the extra listens it is going to get, naturally.
However Mikel is actually simply being Mikel. I’ve spoken to a few individuals who know Mikel a lot better than all of us do that week they usually have assured me that is simply how he’s. He’s emotional, typically overly emotional, however he’s passionate and is actually nonetheless simply one in every of Chelsea’s greatest followers. He deeply cares in regards to the state of the membership. He’s completely not performing right here when he speaks, that’s actually simply how he’s! He’s eccentric and is an actual character who articulates his opinions with swearing, ardour and feelings.
However sure, I do perceive why some discover him annoying.
For me, I’m happy that he’s on the market being such a excessive profile one who performed for the membership and will get his voice heard on a worldwide scale. A few of his factors are spot on and have to be stated. For me, he’s combating our battle for us. All of us need to change the mannequin on the very least, Mikel making a few of our opinions heard is simply a superb factor.
Listed below are a few of the issues he’s stated this week which for me are spot on, and it’s not even a debate (in my view):
“The strain ought to all the time be on the homeowners. It’s about profitable trophies. For those who purchase Chelsea Soccer Membership and assume you’re solely right here to make revenue, you possibly can f**okay off. The extra the followers get pissed off, you by no means know what may occur.”
“The recruitment course of has been actually poor. The January window they weakened the squad! We went from a place of depth to a place of weak point!”
“2 wins in 9? Roman would’ve landed the helicopter and the supervisor would’ve been gone. I’m not calling for the sacking, but it surely’s disaster, it’s not proper what’s happening at this membership.”
“It’s gonna be a f’ing catastrophe if we don’t end in champions league place. I hate what the supervisor has stated, who the f advised you that? Are you f’ing kidding me? That is Chelsea Soccer Membership.
“I can’t simply keep silent, For those who’re a Chelsea fan, don’t settle for what’s happening is correct, it’s not, your voice is required, our voice is required.”
While some folks discover his ardour an excessive amount of, I believe the factors he has made listed below are spot on. Some don’t just like the swearing however for me, I typically wish to articulate myself like that too. Generally it’s the one approach.
I’m not listening to that ‘Chelsea has modified and we aren’t Chelsea anymore.’ We all know that, we all know we aren’t the identical membership. However why ought to we let requirements drop simply because we have now completely different homeowners? They knew the membership they had been shopping for, it wasn’t Accrington Stanley was it!? The one approach requirements drop is that if folks (followers and people on the membership) permit it to. There’s completely no purpose to let requirements drop simply because ‘soccer has modified’ or that is ‘not the identical Chelsea’ anymore. Make it the identical then! It’s actually really easy to get Chelsea difficult once more, however they’re solely desirous about uncooked prospects (who will make them cash in the event that they’re no good) and being Brighton. I do agree that we have to realise this lot are usually not Roman Abramovich and he was one in every of a sort. However there may be completely no purpose that we shouldn’t be aiming as excessive as Roman and setting excessive requirements as a membership.
