John Obi Mikel Exposes Man United Transfer Scandal & Chelsea's Dressing Room Chaos (E341)

The tackles were flying in, you know, there was fight, you know, happening during training. José loved to see things like that. Players like Mo Sala and Kevin DeBruyne and Romelo Lucacu, these great players, today, he did break them. Were they strong enough to be in that dressing room back then? No. With Manchester United. They came over, locked me in the room. They took my phone away. I couldn't make any phone call. I couldn't call my parents, my family, nor my agent back then. It was like you have to sign this contract. That is former footballer John Obi McAl, a man central to Chelsea's success under Jose Mourinho, a man who's pretty much won the lot in football, and a man now ready to lift the lid on what life is really like as a professional. At the elite level.

Conversations like these are incredibly rare. Mikhail's about to explain why Jose Mourinho was so successful. But also Why it eventually went wrong with him. You gotta find out which players were the leaders in the Chelsea Jessing room and how they went about doing that.

And finally he's gonna tell us a great story about how the players would always know if a manager was about to be sacked. But before all of that Mikel will pull no punches as he shows how he felt bullied into signing for Manchester United. The difficult day. You had to say no to Sir Alex Ferguson face to face. And the dark times. when he wasn't allowed to play the game he loved for a year.

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