Pizy

Watch this now turn into a Stones/Everton situation where it goes public and only serves to piss Leicester off and either keep him or sell him to a rival...

Already missing the days when a club our size could just go in and body a tiny club like Leicester and sign their players.

Really needs to grow his 'fro back out, though. Looks shit in these pics

I'll take you're guys' word for it. To be honest, though, if we're after a midfielder from the Portuguese side it would be Gomes. He just seems more suited to the PL and to our needs.

I can understand us being after a super expensive striker still and maybe a (somewhat) inexpensive attacking midfielder like Candreva, but I cannot think of a good reason we'd be after a super expensive attacking mid like Joao Mario. First of all, if we are playing with 2 up top where would he play? If we keep the same tired 4-2-3-1 of the last few seasons then there are better players than this dude for this kind of cash. Just not buying it. Think this rumor is completely fabricated.

Their "fairytale" is over now. With Pep, José, and Conte gearing up plus Spuds, Klopp, Bilic, and Koeman all improving their sides Liecester will do fantastically well to finish between 6-8th. Even there might be pushing it.

The hate this is getting on Twitter right now is unreal. Just read through the replies to the official Chelsea Twitter. Our best player last season and a player any big club would love, yet many of our fans think he's a donkey and wanted him sold. Fucking idiots.

Surely their players and fans couldn't begrudge him for wanting to move from Liecester to Chelsea? It's like moving from a ground floor apartment to the penthouse. Any of them would jump at the chance. Liecester are very good at signing players and improving them. They can take the money for Kante and buy the next unknown player and build him up.

Can't compare this to the Vardy situation at all. He's a 29 year old player approaching the decline of his career. He would have been going to Arsenal to be a squad player. Sure, he'd be getting paid more but he realized in the end that he could stay at Leicester where he's a legend and the "main man" rather than a bench warmer at Arsenal. If he was 5 years younger he'd have gone no question. Kante on the other hand is only 25 and has years and years at the top level ahead of him. Let's be honest here, last season was a freak occurrence. No chance will Liecester be near the top again next season. Kante has the chance to go to a much bigger club, get a big pay raise, and most importantly will be much more likely to regularly challenge for trophies if he moves.

That's not how I interpreted that article but maybe (I hope) you're right.

I would think in that case it's completely up to Liecester. Unless they're really, really nice and want to make things easy for Kante by allowing him to choose, they really have no reason to sell for a lower amount. If we bid the £20m and another club bids £30m but Kante only wants Chelsea we kind of have to hope Liecester doesn't play hardball and allows him to go where he wants rather than to the highest bidder. We'd also have to hope that another club doesn't get in his head after we've already bid and sways him their way.

The release clause serves as a baseline. It's the minimum a club will have to pay to sign him away from Liecester. If more than one club triggers it with £20m, they'll then have to start going higher in a bidding war.

This needs to get wrapped up before clubs start failing with their primary targets and fall back to Kante! Namely Real Madrid and United who are after Pogba.

Since we're clearly after another striker of high quality and Morata is now a no-go, I wonder who we'd be after now. Even Pellé is off the table now.

Since it doesn't appear Matic will be sold after all and we're after Kante I wonder how Conte plans to use them. A fit and back in form Matic is far too good to be on the bench. Not sure if you can play both of them together.

This is what I like to see!

Huh? He did barely anything at the Euro's. He looked like a decent, speedy attacking player but nothing special.

He's average. We have plenty of average players as it is, don't need another.

Or they're still dicking around trying to sign Nainggolan...

The fact that it looks plain, simple, and understated is why it looks good. These super busy shirts we've been getting lately with 4 colors, stripes, and shitty patterns are atrocious. Always jealous when I see a club with old school, elegant kits. Like Roma usually have.

The fuck is the hideous one the away kit and the classy white one the 3rd kit we'll see probably 3 times all season? Idiots, Adidas!

Victor Moses with that "why am I here?" look.

So, a player who's coming off a poor season and plays in a position we're pretty well stocked in? Yep, sounds like something our board would do.

Absolutely fucking disgusting! I think Adidas must have been angry with us for ditching them and designed this abomination out of spite. Gross.