{"id":351201,"date":"2011-03-31T09:33:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T09:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/31\/mikel-obi-vows-to-fight-for-chelsea-place\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T09:33:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T09:33:41","slug":"mikel-obi-vows-to-fight-for-chelsea-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/mikel-obi-vows-to-fight-for-chelsea-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Obi Vows To Fight For Chelsea Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div> Nigeria international midfielder Mikel John Obi has promised to battle to regain a starting spot at English Premier League giants Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel has not figured in the first team of The Blues in the last three matches with speculations that he could well be on his way out of Stamford Bridge in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian Ramires has been preferred to the Nigerian by manager Carlo Ancelotti.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will keep fighting and hopefully I will get my place back,\u201d said Mikel, who would dismiss speculations he could be shipped out at the end of the season as \u201cpaper talk\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is football and things like this happen. But I have played for five years under several coaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mikel still has four more years to run on his Chelsea contract.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed confidence that Chelsea have turned the corner and could still retain their EPL crown at the expense of rivals Manchester United.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_1967-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/foreign.peacefmonline.com\/sports\/201103\/149284.php\" title=\"Mikel Obi Vows To Fight For Chelsea Place\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mikel Obi Vows To Fight For Chelsea Place<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nigeria international midfielder Mikel John Obi has promised to battle to regain a starting spot at English Premier League giants Chelsea. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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