Following the departure of Midfielder John Mikel  who left Chelsea to join Chinese Super League side Tianjin TEDA.

His long time girlfriend as a way of dxpressing her joy on the new event that has opened in the life of the player shared the photo of herself, Mikel and their twin daughters and captioned it as,’ “So proud of you my love@mikel_john_obi and so excited for the the new chapter of our #poohbook What an incredible start to 2017 ??#nihao”

The 29-year-old Nigerian has played 372 times for Chelsea since joining in 2006 but has not featured this season.

He said it had been “an honour” to play for the Stamford Bridge club but it was time to “seek a new challenge”.