N'Golo Kante

[Vesper 27,310]

11 minutes ago, Unionjack said:

Wee Baldy Man wont go anywhere but France IMO

And it leaves us high and dry wih a replacement.

Hes my fave player but I'm all about strengthening the team. So IF theres a deal available in our favor its got to be done I'm afraid.

I just hope our none footballing Granny understands just what we have in him.

You talk far too much sense so you know none of it will happen.

I can do the same exact thing BUT with PSG players

I am a numbers girl, and a deal-maker, I work in M & A and deep research for a hedge fund, plus run my own boutique consultancy on the side. I also only sleep (since I was  baby) only 2 to 3 hours per day, I go through complete REM cycle in like 45 minutes or so, so plenty of time in my 24 hour day. My nickname (because I am so fucking hyper in all aspects) is The Hummingbird, LOLOL I like this board because all the politricks ones I am on make me wanna throw things and smack my cat (which is a serval, so that will end badly for me, plus my wiffer would KILL me, lol)

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7 minutes ago, manpe said:

 

I would love to see Kante's face when listening to this. Must have had a smile all over his place.

It just shows how popular he is among his team mates. And how they value his importance.

[Vesper 27,310]

Maurizio Sarri building new-look Chelsea around Jorginho - where does N'Golo Kante fit in?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/07/28/maurizio-sarri-building-new-look-chelsea-around-jorginho-does/

 

Two matches and two weeks in, but a quite vast difference between the Chelsea of Antonio Conte and Maurizio Sarri is already evident. Several questions follow from a move now in both pre-season matches away from the old 3-4-3 formation to 4-3-3, and among the most prescient relates to N’Golo Kante.

A newly crowned World Cup winner and surely also the best holding midfielder of his generation, but already it looks likely Kante will have to accept a modified role at Chelsea.

Sarri made a major statement by successfully arguing for the £50 million addition of Jorginho and, with Kante on holiday and not due back until after Chelsea have already played Manchester City in the Community Shield, it is the Brazilian-born Italian around whom the midfield is currently being built.

Jorginho played 45 minutes for Chelsea against Perth last week and caught the eye not just with his performance but also a statistic that later emerged about his completion of 98 passes in 45 minutes. That’s right, more than two passes a minute. Similar stats followed the 26-year-old from Napoli where he topped the tables for passing in Serie A last season with almost 3,000 over the course of the year at an average of one every 50 seconds.

It was a part of his game that especially improved under Sarri and it already seems obvious that he will be asked to play as the central midfield playmaker and anchor in front of the back four.   

Few doubt that Kante will start alongside Jorginho in a midfield three, but that would likely mean a modified and more box-to-box role to the right.

Conte did also think that Kante could carry the ball forward and contribute rather more creatively but, against Inter Milan in Nice on Saturday night and with owner Roman Abramovich among those watching, Jorginho was occupying much of the space that would usually be patrolled Kante.

It was certainly obvious why Sarri had wanted to add his ball-playing quality to the team. Jorginho has been dictating Chelsea’s style and tempo in pre-season and we can certainly expect a more expansive, if defensively suspect, approach next season.

Ross Barkley has also performed brightly now in both summer games. Alvaro Morata made the first goal here for Pedro but will clearly face competition from Olivier Giroud and there are questions about whether there is sufficient specialism at full-back after two years spent asking Victor Moses, Marcos Alonso and Cesar Azpilicueta to perform rather different roles in the old wing-back system.

Chelsea were ultimately held here to a 1-1 draw here before winning 5-4 on penalties but, even with numerous second-half changes, it felt significant that the new 4-3-3 system was never once altered. And, at its heart, Jorginho was also the only player to complete the full 90 minutes.

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[The Skipper 20,593]

On 27/07/2018 at 7:50 AM, Vesper said:

except M-S isnt a DMF

Lets start with Kante who I assign £125m value

as a base for the swap

then

we have these other expendables who would fit in at Juve

Luiz    £25m

Alonso   £40m (as long as Alex Sandro is in the deal from their side)

Bakayoko  £40m

Morata   £55m

Willian    £55m

 

 

Juve has 4 (who I want)

Rugani   £45m

Alex Sandro  £55m

Pjanic  £80m

Federico Bernardeschi    £40m

 

£220m total

 

Find some combo of ours that includes Kante they will take for those 4 (It will include Kante (their main want) and Alonso (to replace Alex Sandro) for sure, plus I would add Morata, who they want too)  Thats is £220m in our value for their £220m in value

 

DONE AND DUSTED

 

THEN

 

we Sell

 

Willian Man U swap for Martial (give them extra £10m cash to stuff in Mo's fucking gobhole too, I do not give a fuck) so minus £10m

Drinkwater (Palace wants him pretty bad)  £30m because he is HG

Luiz   EASY sell, PSG already has enquired multiple times  £25m

Bakayoko  Sevilla wants him SELL HIM TO THEM  £35m

Cahill like 5 EPL teams want him   £20m  (why so high?, because he is fucking ENGLISH, lolol)

Moses same as Cahill, multiple EPL have enquired £25m

Courtois sale adds $35m

 

thats £160m in the bank,

so £160m to play with

we only need (as I am counting Martial as our new striker, he wil be GREAT there under Sarri) and we have totally sorted CB, RB, LB, AMF, RW

 

DMF (I already have 5 to choose from NONE will be more than £50m)  

 

Thomas Partey Atletico Madrid  (hell yes and they already bought a replacement, Rodri, the new Busquets)

Danilo Pereira    Porto (Best DMF in Portuguese Liga NOS BY FAR) 

Denis Zakaria   Borussia Mönchengladbach (big, fast as hell, only 21, had a great WC)

Diadie Samassékou Red Bull Salzburg, young sorta kante clone, was MASSIVE in Eurpo league run they had, not only best DMF in Austria, but BEST PLAYER)

Wilfred Ndidi   Leicester City  only 21 still, poor mans Kante, we could do far worse

then

GK Strakosha £45m

LW  Leon Bailey £65m

 

there's your team

all under budget

 

GK Strakosha

CB Rudiger, Christensen, Rugani, Ampadu

RB  Azpi, Zappacosta

LB Alex Sandro, Emerson

DMF one of the 5 above, lets say Thomas from AM (BEAST) or Danilo Pereira from Porto

CMF, deep holding playmaker  Jorginho

CMF backups Fabregas, RLC

AMF Pjanic , Barkley

LW Hazard, Bailey CHO

RW , Bernardeshi, Pedro (Bailey can play here too) I would maybe even sell Pedro and take money plus whatever is left from the 160m and buy another DMF off that list, say Diadie Samassékou

Striker Martial, Giroud, Bats

 

so deep, so much utter attacking power AND a strong as fuck back 4 with world class goalkeeper,all within the 60m net spend too

BOOM

 

 

 

 

Too much FM/FIFA like man. You think we can get all that done in less than two weeks?

[OneMoSalah 8,614]

Sellling Kante? Why would anybody suggest such a thing. 

He and Jorginho will be key to our team for different reasons. Jorginho for dictating and building the game, always being on for a pss and Kante for counter pressing to get the ball back as well as his ability to cover so much ground, bring balance as well as a counter attacking threat. He’s going nowhere and he will be in the team 100% when he’s back. 

Deserves a new contract, he’s been our most consistent player since he arrived 2 seasons ago. If Eden resigns he will probably earn more but nothing been done on that front yet.

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[Vesper 27,310]

Just now, The Skipper said:

Too much FM/FIFA like man. You think we can get all that done in less than two weeks?

Not with our board, but it certainly could have been done. I guarantee that as long as we could have no set order to buy/sell, and the swaps were agreeable, my firm could close those out in the 14 days (that when I posted it). We close deals all the time that DWARF these. Athletes or Chinese buying  cement firms in Italy, the bottom line is the cash. You also sell the sizzle, more than the steak, in this case too.

I would love to get into football back-end management someday. 

There are underlying financial AND footballing sense and actions behind everything I posted (swaps included) for BOTH sides.

I listed the clubs who want to buy the players I would sell. Sell them, it isn't rocket science.

I do grant you that all this came from an example of where selling Kante would not be a disaster AND assuming that Juve wanted him (which another article said they were thinking of making a run at him). My grand plan was in response to a poster talking about replacing KANTE with SMS, something I said was not doable (due to cost and to fact that SMS is NOT a DMF).

The main key in all this is the replacement DMF. IF it was Thomas Partey from Atletico Madrid, and all the rest slipped into place (the Martial/Willian swap would be the hardest to pull off) that final lineup yielded is far far better than where we are at now WITH Kante. Not even close.

I would also TOTALLY accept Caldara instead of Rugani in that deal as well. They are both great CB's, regardless of current hate I see on the board here. I have watched them both a lot. I have given detailed breakdown and comparisons on other posts here. I do not rate Luiz, which also is not popular here, and that's why I included Rugani in the Juve grand swap. Juve also has THREE RW'ers, all starting level, so it isnt that hard to get them to part with one (obviously not Cuadrado, and ZERO chance they sell Costa, thus Bernardeschi was the one I put in).

I would add another option (cheaper too) at GK. Cillesson from Barca. We are insane to not offer a swap of Alonso for him (as obviously our board is not doing my giant Juve deal). Barca need a LB bad now, as they just sold Lucas Digne.

Alonso and Cillesson are dead spot on equal in valuation (Cillesson has a 40m euro release clause, which is basically what Alonso is worth, (maybe Marcos is worth a little more than 40m euro, but only maybe 3 or 4m euro more)  WE COULD then deffo buy Alex Sandro outright to replace Alonso, as Juve needs a LOT of cash. The reason? Juve DEFFO wants, I mean really wants Pogba back, and they will need cash, a lot, to do that. Man U really, REALLY wants SMS, and to get him, they have to sell Pogba.

I would leverage the FUCK outta all that dialectical tension.

 

There are lots of other routes to get to a good lineup without selling Kante, of course.

 

 

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1 minute ago, Sideshow Luiz said:

 

Deserved. I called for this and one time ppl are listening.

him and azpi should be top earners

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Just now, Magic Lamps said:

Deserved. I called for this and one time ppl are listening.

him and azpi should be top earners

For now.  Hazard will top that when he resigns. We gave Madrid the opportunity to show him the love.  They only sent a dick pic.

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9 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

Sellling Kante? Why would anybody suggest such a thing. 

He and Jorginho will be key to our team for different reasons. Jorginho for dictating and building the game, always being on for a pss and Kante for counter pressing to get the ball back as well as his ability to cover so much ground, bring balance as well as a counter attacking threat. He’s going nowhere and he will be in the team 100% when he’s back. 

It wasnt me who first said it, it was other posters. I only showed a legit way to end up with a stronger team if we did, than it is now WITH him. I do NOT want to sell him at all. That said, there is no way (of course my plan will never be attempted) anyone can argue that my final team yielded is not miles better than we are now WITH him. Of course we can get to that level without selling him, but that will not happen either. I am resigned to the fact we are probably not adding anyone other than perhaps a free transfer of Bernard, and MAYBE Vecino, both players I do NOT rate. I think Courtois is going to leave on a free next summer (or be sold for peanuts in January if we are already out of a top 4 finish). I think it is Morata or bust for striker, and I think Willian stays as our RW.

 

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2 minutes ago, Vesper said:

It wasnt me who first said it, it was other posters. I only showed a legit way to end up with a stronger team if we did, than it is now WITH him. I do NOT want to sell him at all. That said, there is no way (of course my plan will never be attempted) anyone can argue that my final team yielded is not miles better than we are now WITH him. Of course we can get to that level without selling him, but that will not happen either. I am resigned to the fact we are probably not adding anyone other than perhaps a free transfer of Bernard, and MAYBE Vecino, both players I do NOT rate. I think Courtois is going to leave on a free next summer (or be sold for peanuts in January if we are already out of a top 4 finish). I think it is Morata or bust for striker, and I think Willian stays as our RW.

 

Not any team in the world would be stronger if they had Kante (arguably the best defensive minded midfielder in Europe right now) and sold him in my eyes regardless of who they replaced him with. Its like Madrid selling Ronaldo, they are instantly weaker, even if they got Hazard or Neymar.. still be weaker. He’s such a selfless player but he’s a huge part of the Chelsea team and also the France team and I think regardless of how simple his game seems, you couldn’t sell him and replace him with Ndidi, Milinkovic Savic or whoever because there aren’t many players who do what he does at the level he does it at. 

[Sideshow Luiz 2,310]

12 minutes ago, Vesper said:

It wasnt me who first said it, it was other posters. I only showed a legit way to end up with a stronger team if we did, than it is now WITH him. I do NOT want to sell him at all. That said, there is no way (of course my plan will never be attempted) anyone can argue that my final team yielded is not miles better than we are now WITH him. Of course we can get to that level without selling him, but that will not happen either. I am resigned to the fact we are probably not adding anyone other than perhaps a free transfer of Bernard, and MAYBE Vecino, both players I do NOT rate. I think Courtois is going to leave on a free next summer (or be sold for peanuts in January if we are already out of a top 4 finish). I think it is Morata or bust for striker, and I think Willian stays as our RW.

 

I think we could possibly see Bakayoko out with Vecino in.  Maybe Caldera (if there's enough room for another non-HG player).  That's it.

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

Way too much money

[LAM09 6,547]

He certainly deserves a new bumper contract, but making him our highest earner is going OTT.

[Vesper 27,310]

3 hours ago, OneMoSalah said:

Not any team in the world would be stronger if they had Kante (arguably the best defensive minded midfielder in Europe right now) and sold him in my eyes regardless of who they replaced him with. Its like Madrid selling Ronaldo, they are instantly weaker, even if they got Hazard or Neymar.. still be weaker. He’s such a selfless player but he’s a huge part of the Chelsea team and also the France team and I think regardless of how simple his game seems, you couldn’t sell him and replace him with Ndidi, Milinkovic Savic or whoever because there aren’t many players who do what he does at the level he does it at. 

this team

GK Strakosha or Cillesson

CB Rudiger, Christensen, Rugani (or Caldara), Ampadu

RB  Azpi, Zappacosta

LB Alex Sandro, Emerson

DMF Thomas Partey  Diadie Samassékou

CMF, deep holding playmaker  Jorginho

CMF backups Fabregas, RLC

AMF Pjanic , Barkley

LW Hazard, CHO

RW , Bailey, Bernadeschi (Both can play RW or  LW)

Striker Martial, Giroud, Bats

 

would beat this following team consistently if you played them against each other 38 times:

 

GK Caballero or maybe Reina

CB Rudiger, Christensen, Cahill, Luiz

RB  Azpi, Zappacosta

LB Alonso, Emerson

DMF Kante  Bakayoko

CMF, deep holding playmaker  Jorginho

CMF backups Fabregas, Drinkwater

AMF   Barkley, RLC

LW Hazard, CHO

RW  Willian (assuming we don't sell him), Pedro

Striker  Morata, Giroud, Bats

 

whatever difference Kante would make over Thomas Partey (who is no slouch at all) (and Kante, I absolutely give you, would be obviously disruptive as all hell)

the positives of 

Strakosha or Cilleson over Caballero (massive), 

Rugani over Cahill (depth is key in 38 game season) 

Alex Sandro v Alonso (massive)

Pjanic over Barkley or RLC (Massive)

Wingers of Bailey and Berndeshi vs Willian (if he stays) and Pedro (massive)

Striker Martial over Morata

would more than overcome

Injuries and fatigue occur, the first teams rotates in Rugani or Caldara at CB, the 2nd possibly has to bring in Cahill, at DMF the 1st team team rotates in Diadie Samassékou, the 2nd, Bakayoko

The first team rotates in Bailey or Bernardeshi, the 2nd rotates in Pedro or who knows, if Willian is sold

the first team has incredibly more firepower and a far far stronger LB and CB (CB depth) situation

the first team would torch the 2nd in front midfield play and put the utter cosh to the LB's of the 2nd as well (imagine Alonso trying to keep up as a back 4 LB with Bailey or Bernardeschi or Martial or CHO!), the 2nd team also will struggle for goals and is reliant on Morata to do or die

Add in Caballero as GK, its lights out

Kante cannot play all 10 outfield positions, as much as it seems at times he does

I think the difference is even more manifest if you pit the first team versus the other big 6 EPL squads or top level CL competition

 

[Unionjack 7,531]

Get yer mingy hands off our wee baldy man

Chelsea want to make N’Golo Kanté £290k top earner

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chelsea-want-to-make-ngolo-kante-290k-top-earner-xzsp2l7wq

 

Chelsea have offered N’Golo Kanté a new contract worth nearly £290,000 a week, which would make him the club’s best-paid player. They have acted to deter interest from Paris Saint-Germain in the midfielder who impressed at the World Cup, where he helped France to lift the trophy.

Kanté has been offered a five-year deal worth up to £15 million a season, which roughly doubles his present wage and would take him above Eden Hazard who is Chelsea’s top earner on £220,000 a week.

Chelsea will not allow Kanté to leave for France and the 27-year-old has not asked to go. He helped Chelsea to win the Premier League title in his first season after joining for around £30 million from Leicester City two years ago and his contract ends in 2021.

Kanté played in every France game at the World Cup and recovered the ball more often than any other member of the squad. His team-mate Paul Pogba said that he “must have 15 lungs” and Didier Deschamps, the manager, called him the “essential element” of the triumphant side.

Chelsea are ready to increase Hazard’s salary to a similar level to Kante’s, but the Belgian said recently that he was considering a move. He has attracted interest from Real Madrid and Barcelona. Hazard and the goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, who is also wanted by Madrid, are due to return to pre-season training by Monday.

Chelsea have not yet found a replacement to enable them to sanction the sale of Courtois for around £35 million and there are other issues for the club as they prepare to face Arsenal in Dublin tomorrow and Manchester City in the FA Community Shield on Sunday.