Chelsea stuck with £16m Mikel fee after settling court case

• zocoss

  3 Dec 08, 20:38

  Chelsea stuck with £16m Mikel fee after settling court case with his Norwegian ex-employers
  

   

  

   

   

  Chelsea are ready to take a £16million loss on John Mikel Obi’s transfer.

  The Blues have reached an out-of-court settlement with Norwegian side Lyn Oslo of £100,000 over the money they paid out for the Nigeria midfielder in 2006.

  The original £16m transfer had seen Lyn receive £4m while Manchester United were paid £12m for waiving their option to sign the player. But Chelsea then discovered Mikel was fraudulently registered.

  Chelsea are unlikely to turn their attention to United but will pursue Lyn’s former chief executive Morgan Andersen, who was handed a one-year suspended prison sentence for forging the documents.