Man Utd unveiled John Obi Mikel before star's last-gasp transfer to Chelsea
dailystar.co.ukManchester United as a new player before switching to Chelsea.The former Nigeria captain, who has recently announced his retirement from football, was subject to one of the craziest transfer sagas to date.Just after the midfielder turned 18 years old, he was seemingly bought by United after the club announced that they had struck a deal with Lyn - a Norwegian side.
Reports said at the time that the deal was initially worth £4million and would see the youngster make the move to Old Trafford in January 2006.READ MORE: Antonio Rudiger's 'goofy a** superpower' run for Real Madrid has fans howlingBut to complicate matters, Chelsea issued a counter-claim suggesting that they already had an agreement with Mikel and his representatives.
Lyn denied this before the news emerged that the club did in fact have an agreement in place and that the side’s manager - which was at the time Jose Mourinho - had been a fan of the player.But Mikel was banded into a United press conference, and pictures were taken of him holding the United shirt, the number 21, and smiling.Do you think Mikel made the right choice?
Let us know in the comments section belowThe story took a sinister turn as reports suggested that he started to receive threatening phone calls, and so Mikel decided to hire a security guard.He was not selected for the game in Norway, Klemetsrud, and so left with one of his agents, John Shittu.
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