Former Chelsea midfielder Emmanuel Sarki believes that the treatment of Diego Costa is 'mild' when compared to how John Obi Mikel was ignored at Chelsea.

The Nigeria international failed to make a single appearance under manager Antonio Conte before he was sold off to Chinese Super League club Tianjin Teda in the January transfer window.

John Mikel Obi has featured and started all the 270 minutes of Tianjin’s first three games of the new season before he was flown to London for abdominal surgery.

The Super Eagles and Tianjin TEDA captain, has been out of the last three Chinese Super League matches because of an abdominal strain and has been announced to be injured for three weeks, according to a report on Sports Enorth.

The Super Eagles of Nigeria are set to play the Corsica senior team in an international friendly game after the camp opens in Corsica on May 24.

After the game, they would move to France when there is another camp planned in Paris. The two phases of camping programme is to help the team bond ahead of the crucial African Cup of Nations qualifier against South Africa.

Nigerian soccer player John Obi Mikel has scored his first goal in a competitive match since he moved to China.

The player exited the Chelsea set-up as he fell in the pecking order. He agreed a move to Chinese Super League side Tianjin TEDA as he decided to continue his professional soccer career.

The Nigerian midfielder John Obi Mikel completed his move from Chelsea to Tianjin TEDA on January 6 of 2017 as the 29 year old player decided to continue his playing career by performing in China and ending his 10 year long stay in the Premier League.

Tianjin TEDA is an Asian club that competes in the Chinese Super League but despite having competed in the top tier league for over 10 years, they have never managed to actually win it and never been able to become the champions.

John obi Mikel recently secured a free transfer to Chinese Super League outfit Tianjin TEDA.

He becomes one of the latest Premier League players to make the switch to China. The Chinese Super League has been incredibly active in ensuring that the best players in the world come to the Chinese shores. In order to ensure this possibility, they have been spending vast sums of money including a £ 60 million the transfer of Brazilian midfielder Oscar. The 25-year-old will not be alone since he will be joined by Mikel, who has also moved to the Chinese league.

The Brazilian midfielder of Chelsea FC, Oscar has experienced a huge drop of playing time in Stamford Bridge as the midfielder went from being a regular starter to spending the majority of his time on the bench; from the looks of it Antonio Conte does not have the Brazilian attacker in his plans.

Oscar is mostly being used as a substitute player with only a few minutes of time in the actual pitch on certain games and even in the matches that Oscar does perform with the main team, it’s only for a limited period of time and for a player as skillful as him, this is a huge a blow and it’s something that other clubs can take advantage of.

For the first time in the 11 year long career of John Obi Mikel in Chelsea, the Nigerian player has not made a starting appearance in any of the 10 opening league matches of the season.

The 29 year old Nigerian midfielder completed his move to Chelsea on June of 2006 and ever since he joined the Premier League club, John Obi Mikel has been a regular starter.

It is the view of the Chelsea midfielder, John Mikel Obi that two players will become stars in the nearest future both for club and country.

Mikel named Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Nathaniel Chalobah as the duo whom he expects to shine bright soon at both club level and country level.

Chelsea midfielder John obi Mikel has surprisingly claimed that Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba can one day win the FIFA Ballon d’Or award.

Mikel first joined United and then boarded to Chelsea in the matter of a few hours. He has been with the West London club for more than a decade. Even though his importance may have waned in recent seasons, Mikel has continued to stay at Chelsea. Many expected Mikel to become the next Claude Makelele, although he plays as an attacking midfielder with the Nigerian national team. Mikel saw himself as someone who could go places after having joined Chelsea.