The Daily Telegraph is reporting today that the day that Mikel joined Chelsea he was crying because he wanted to join Manchester United (if i had to join Chelsea i would cry aswell).
Manchester United, Chelsea and a Norwegian club Lyn all claimed (at the same time) that Mikel was their player
Mikel had apparently signed to Manchester United from Lyn in 2005 but he was loaned back to Lyn, there are pictures showing Mikel holding a United shirt with the number 21 on it. But then Chelsea (the ones with the massive cheque book) said they had a seperate agreement with Mikel's agent for the player.
Mikel said that he was forced to sign to United and he joined Chelsea in 2006..

The director of Lyn is now facing charges.
He said: "It was like meeting the Sopranos. In the meeting they behaved in a threatening way. We claimed that we had the rights to Mikel, but Shittu said we would regret the deal.
"We told them that we had the right to Mikel, but Chelsea's representatives didn't agree. Soon after, John Shittu took him to the airport in Oslo. They went to London. Mikel was crying and we didn't see him for a long time after that."
"A number of clubs wanted to sign Mikel and I showed all the faxes to him. He didn't want to see them, because his mind was set on Manchester United. He was very happy when the deal was done and he wanted to go to United.
"Alex Ferguson said to me that Mikel would be the new Roy Keane and he was offered a contract that was even better than the one they gave Cristiano Ronaldo when he came to the club."

The court case is still continuing, to read the full article go here