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It's not the agent it's the Lyn Director, the Agent Shittu just ignored it,thoose two being bad guys not Mikel., if you wanna read all the articles I could post them in English.


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A short summary of each article:

Unfortunate for Norwegian football

Ersnt Ravnaas in 'Norwegian Top Football' explains that it's unfortunate that the police now has charged Andersen, but emphasizes that there's a difference between getting charged for something and actually convicted.

Institute of Journalism criticises Morgan

Andersen is only willing to give interviews to the TV station of his new club Fredrikstad. The interview itself was described as meaningless and containing no critical questions.


Lyn could lose Mikel money

If former Lyn director Morgan Andersen has forged John Obi Mikel's signature, then Lyn has to pay back the £4M they got for him when they sold the Nigerian to Chelsea. That's the opinion of law professor Viggo Hagstrøm at University of Oslo, who specialises in contract law. Forged contracts are rare in Norway, but it should be easy to obtain technical evidence. However, if Mikel or Shittu should demand money back from Lyn, the football player would probably have to leave his current employer.

The Norwegian FA are looking into what their own laws and regulations are in a case like this. They refuse comment at the moment, but it's indicated that the club will be made responsible and that the Norwegian FA won't seperate between the actions of a club and that of an individual within that club.

Morgan Andersen: It doesn't surprise me

Former Lyn Director Morgan Andersen says that he's looking forward to getting all angles of the case presented in court. It will be up to the attorney-general to go through the documents from the police and decide whether or not there will be a trial. There are two aspects of the case, the first is that Andersen is claimed to have forged one of the contracts in the Mikel case, the other is that Andersen has wrongly accused Shittu of doing something criminal.

Lyn chairman Sveinung Lunde says that it's very disappointing that a Lyn director is supposed to have broken Norwegian law. "I take it for granted that a managing director, whoever it is, sticks to Norwegian law. Anything else would be outrageous."

Lyn chairman: I'm very, very disappointed

In 2005, the Lyn chairman said this about the contract forgery accusations: "It's a serious allegation, it's shocking, and I'd call it an act of desperation." Now he has changed his tune. "When we heard about the accusations seven months after (the contract forgery) should have happened, we considered it as part of a game. We listened to what Andersen had to say and found no reason to distrust him."

Morgan Andersen's lawyer, Cato Schiøtz, feels that the police to a large extent has trusted what John Shittu has explained about the situation. "It's obvious that in this case the police has believed John Shittu's statements and not my client's version".

Shittu "glad it's over"

Agent John Shittu expresses great joy of being exonerated in the case. "It's been a tough time for me. Thank God that it's now over", Shittu commented to TV 2. "Whatever you do in life, try to be careful. Do not try to destroy other human beings. That will come back to haunt you", he continues.

Even though the relationship between Shittu and Andersion has been difficult, and there have been accusations back and forth, neither Shittu or Mikel is considering private litigation against the FFK director.