N'Golo Kante

[Despiadado.Maleante 1,046]

Mods need to ban the next person who calls him overrated.

[Thor 2,392]

His passing is so underrated. I've never understood those complaining about his distribution. 

The man is such a quick decision maker, and not to mention does everything he can to get the ball moving forward. His short passing game is top notch. World class in fact. His long passing could use work, but then again, he isn't there to be the playmaker from deep. 

Truly an all time great talent. 

[Alabama 1,992]

4 hours ago, Despiadado.Maleante said:

Mods need to ban the next person who calls him overrated.

This...

[KevinAshburner 1,270]

Chelsea fc have to find an underground secret cloning machine and send Kante to a cloning machine to make more Kante's.

 

 

[Special Juan 27,424]

Makes nigh on everything tick in this team, he breaks up play, distributes brilliantly, has pace, sees danger and without him as we saw in games we are quite frankly rank bad.

 

[Pizy 18,368]

Crazy how he can miss a month through injury and come back and dominate Manchester United in his first game. Not only that, he instantly made Cesc and Baka look like world beaters as well. Exciting to have our full selection of CM's now. I think Drinkwater will be fantastic with Kante out there, too.

The thing that always amuses me and makes me just smile is when tiny little Kante runs full speed at someone twice his size, bullies and harasses them, and wins the ball cleanly. Incredible player. Getting way better carrying the ball and getting forward as well under Conte's coaching.

[Magic Lamps 11,653]

Bzw has he been called up again?

[LAM09 6,744]

Crazy how he can miss a month through injury and come back and dominate Manchester United in his first game. Not only that, he instantly made Cesc and Baka look like world beaters as well. Exciting to have our full selection of CM's now. I think Drinkwater will be fantastic with Kante out there, too.
The thing that always amuses me and makes me just smile is when tiny little Kante runs full speed at someone twice his size, bullies and harasses them, and wins the ball cleanly. Incredible player. Getting way better carrying the ball and getting forward as well under Conte's coaching.

The fact he's arguably become our most important player within a year says it all.

[Yeboii 1,844]

7 hours ago, Magic Lamps said:

Bzw has he been called up again?

No. Probably because he hasn't been playing cause of injury, or because he still isn't fully fit yet.

[Beigl 1,387]

This guy is unreal. He gets better and better. Remember when United fans claimed that Herrera is a better player than Kante last season? 

[Jase 43,479]

 

[Blue-in-me-Veins 4,067]

No doubt about it, Kante Fabregas and Hazard have been Chelsea's best players this season, bar none. But I still feel bad for Kante. 

Kante's being forced to watch an inferior footballer in Bakayoko by playing as a B2B CM when that should be Kante's position. In the limited times Kante's been allowed to play as a B2B CM this season, I've been very impressed with the additions to his game Kante has added in terms of making smarter decisions in the final third. 

[Belgiannutt 3,201]

12 hours ago, Blue-in-me-Veins said:

No doubt about it, Kante Fabregas and Hazard have been Chelsea's best players this season, bar none. But I still feel bad for Kante. 

Kante's being forced to watch an inferior footballer in Bakayoko by playing as a B2B CM when that should be Kante's position. In the limited times Kante's been allowed to play as a B2B CM this season, I've been very impressed with the additions to his game Kante has added in terms of making smarter decisions in the final third. 

Disagree with the second part. Despite improvements Kante is still quite limited when it comes to the final third and really isn't an ideal fit for a more advanced role. 

Besides i feel the central role he's playing now suits him best. Normally the central player in a 3 man midfield acts as the holding player but for us ,due to our midfield being flat, it's actually the outside midfielder furthest away from the ball that acts as the holding player.

This allows Kante to get stuck in all the time as he never really has to hold his position. He can always provide close support on both sides.

Kante and Fabregas are playing in their best position. I think now along with better wingbacks we should be on the lookout for a 3rd midfielder. Bit of a mixture between Kante and Fabregas. Someone who combines their 2 skill sets together (obviously not as good )

Someone capable of providing a creative spark in the final third and linking up with Hazard Morata Fabregas while being able to defend well, cover a good amount of ground and help Kante out on the defensive side.

[positivefootball 195]

Kante definitely isnt suited for an advanced role... not offensive enough in his skillset.

[!Hazard! 3,394]

2 hours ago, Belgiannutt said:

Someone capable of providing a creative spark in the final third and linking up with Hazard Morata Fabregas while being able to defend well, cover a good amount of ground and help Kante out on the defensive side.

Saul from Atletico would be the ideal player for this role IMO. 

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,919]

Terrible in an advanced role, but you know what. He tried out there today, which is more than you can say for the mast majority of the side out there.

 

 

[manpe 10,861]

9 minutes ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

Terrible in an advanced role, but you know what. He tried out there today, which is more than you can say for the mast majority of the side out there.

 

 

You can't say terrible when he laid on a superb chance for Morata. Still much more useful than Bakayoko on either end.

[Leif 6,006]

Without him we would have conceded more, simply.