Spent £30,000 On Players At Rio - Mikel Finally Opens Up

Super Eagles Captain and Chelsea
Midfielder, John Mikel bi has revealed he paid
money to save dream team at the Rio Olympics.
This comes after Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung
debunked rumours of any payment by the player.
“I think if we talk about the money that I put into
the team I think it was more than [£30,000],” Mikel
told Goal. “But we just had to do it.
“I said to myself, ‘I won’t let this happen. If I can
help, I’ll try to help’. Sometimes there was no
food, sometimes there was no pitch to train on,
there was no bus to go to the training ground. So
all of this was what me and the coach had to
figure out, and get money together.
“I came to the camp. I sat down with the boys in
Atlanta and I could see the frustration, the pain
and the anger. Their aim was to play in the
Olympics, their goal was to play in the Olympics.
And for me being there and seeing what they are
going through, they are young boys, they want to
start their career and someone in the ministry is
trying to crush that dream,” he said.