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John Obi Mikel on Xabi Alonso as new Chelsea manager: “Glad to see that the owne…
John Obi Mikel on Xabi Alonso as new Chelsea manager:
🗣 “Glad to see that the owners, the sporting directors, the people that are in charge of football club are willing to make changes, they’re willing to listen when it’s not going right, they’re willing to make changes.
We’ve talked about it. Forget about these coaches, coaches here, there, coaches. No, what we need, and what we’ve always had was managers, a manager that can come in, who decides the players that I want, the players that I want out, that’s what we’ve got now. A manager, so that title has been changed from coach to manager, which is a good news.”
John Obi Mikel: “I’m so glad, I’m happy that Xabi Alonso has come to the football club. I think he’s a brilliant manager. I think he’s a young, talented manager. We see what he did with Leverkusen, where they went unbeaten, and broke that chain of Bayern Munich winning the league in the Bundesliga year in, year out.
He managed to do that with his Leverkusen side playing absolutely fantastic football. He’s also student of Pep Guardiola as well, the way he plays the game, the way he wants to dominate the game, he wants to play on the front foot, attack, press high, and that’s what we want, that’s what we want to see, because we have the talent, we have the players, we have the potential to do that.”
🗣 “Glad to see that the owners, the sporting directors, the people that are in charge of football club are willing to make changes, they’re willing to listen when it’s not going right, they’re willing to make changes.
We’ve talked about it. Forget about these coaches, coaches here, there, coaches. No, what we need, and what we’ve always had was managers, a manager that can come in, who decides the players that I want, the players that I want out, that’s what we’ve got now. A manager, so that title has been changed from coach to manager, which is a good news.”
John Obi Mikel: “I’m so glad, I’m happy that Xabi Alonso has come to the football club. I think he’s a brilliant manager. I think he’s a young, talented manager. We see what he did with Leverkusen, where they went unbeaten, and broke that chain of Bayern Munich winning the league in the Bundesliga year in, year out.
He managed to do that with his Leverkusen side playing absolutely fantastic football. He’s also student of Pep Guardiola as well, the way he plays the game, the way he wants to dominate the game, he wants to play on the front foot, attack, press high, and that’s what we want, that’s what we want to see, because we have the talent, we have the players, we have the potential to do that.”
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