John Obi Mikel gets a bit of a kicking from French newspaper L’Equipe in their Saturday edition. L’Equipe have a transfer special and go over Marseille’s interest in the Chelsea player.
Antonio Conte couldn’t seem less interested in Mikel so a January exit would be the most sensible scenario, especially with Mikel’s Chelsea contract ending in the summer.
L’Equipe believe Chelsea would happily let Mikel leave during the winter transfer window, for nothing, and yet still the cost of the deal is putting clubs off.
Andoni Zubizarreta has held several meetings with Chelsea and also with Mikel’s representatives, but the track is cooling for the Marseille director of sport.
It’s claimed that’s because the Chelsea player is being ‘very greedy’ in his wage demands, and there’s also several intermediaries all trying to get a slice of the transfer for themselves.
As it stands, Marseille are happier to walk away from signing the Chelsea player rather than submit to his demands and then have to get involved in a mess of agents.
