Jon Obi Mikel has revealed what happened when he told legendary Man Utd manager Sir Alex Ferguson he wanted to join Chelsea.
Jon Obi Mikel has revealed what happened when he told Sir Alex Ferguson he wanted to join Manchester United over Chelsea.
The Blues paid Lyn £4 million for Mikel and then paid £14 million to United following the controversy.to break down exactly what happened with the deal, in addition to Ferguson's reaction. It's safe to say the legendary Scot wasn't happy.He explained:"I did have a meeting with Fergie at the FA office in London because the FA also wanted to get involved and was like, 'We need to get this player playing, he's a young player, he needs to play football.
"I was like, 'Sorry boss, I can't play for United, I want to go to Chelsea.' So we had about 20 or 30 minutes in the room and he walked off and then that was it."He walked away, and then the next couple of weeks he was like, 'OK, well I'm not going to let him go for free,' so £14million to United and £4m to Lyn."
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