N'Golo Kante

[the wes 7,212]

Watching this video would make you love Kante more 

[robsblubot 3,595]

A giant who happens to drive a mini.

underrated player considering how much of a fucking nightmare must be to play against him.

Wouldn’t wish that to anyone ... ok that last bit was a lie.

[bigbluewillie 1,930]

Just read on 5th stand, the Wee Man has returned back here from Japan.

Evidently he's injured his knee again, the same one that cost him last season.

Fuck Fuck and Fuck again

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4 minutes ago, bigbluewillie said:

Just read on 5th stand, the Wee Man has returned back here from Japan.

Evidently he's injured his knee again, the same one that cost him last season.

Fuck Fuck and Fuck again

FUCK

I thought he looked sad sitting in the stands the day of the game, I knew something was wrong as he never once was smiling, and he ALWAYS smiles

Bad for Chelsea: N’Golo Kante leaves pre-season with a knee injury

https://www.101greatgoals.com/news/bad-for-chelsea-ngolo-kante-leaves-pre-season-with-a-knee-injury/

N’Golo Kante knee injury confirmed

Chelsea have confirmed the news early on Sunday morning.

Arguably the club’s best player, midfield enforcer N’Golo Kante, has been forced to return to England.

Kante has been sent back to Cobham for “rehabilitation for an injury connected to the knee problem he sustained at the end of last season.”

 

 

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From Sky Sport

Chelsea's N'Golo Kante returns to UK for treatment

Last Updated: 21/07/19 8:29am

N'Golo Kante sustained the injury in May

N'Golo Kante has travelled back to the UK to continue his rehabilitation for an injury connected to the knee problem he sustained at the end of last season.

Kante, who has not featured for Chelsea during pre-season, suffered the injury during their 2-0 win over Watford in May.

 

At the time, then head coach Maurizio Sarri said it was a mistake to play Kante and that he should have rested the France midfielder.

 

Chelsea's current head coach Frank Lampard suffered his first defeat in charge as they lost 1-0 to Kawasaki in Yokohama on Saturday.

Despite the loss, Lampard still saw plenty of positives in his team's performance in Yokohama.

2:09

 

 

Mount inspired by 'role model' Lampard

Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount says he is inspired by 'role model' Frank Lampard who he expects to give him his first-team chance at Stamford Bridge.

 

 

 

Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount says he is inspired by 'role model' Frank Lampard, who he expects to give him his first-team chance at Stamford Bridge

"I thought they gave everything in strong humidity," he said. "Some good individual performances, some people finding their fitness and form. The normal things in pre-season that take a bit of time, which is probably being clinical in front of goal, which we were not.

"But that comes and some small details, which we will work on. So I have no fears, I was happy with big parts of the performance."

Next up for Chelsea is a match against Barcelona at the Saitama Stadium on July 23.

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Bad enough without Rudiger, CHO RLC and ReeceJames, now the Wee inspiration.

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6 minutes ago, bigbluewillie said:

Bad enough without Rudiger, CHO RLC and ReeceJames, now the Wee inspiration.

those are 5 massive players out for us, grrrrrrrrrr

that is literally almost half of our top 12 players

the others being

Kepa

Jorginho

Azpi (with Reece being knocked up really hurts as we may need Azpi at CB (Reece can play there as well) much more this year IF we do sell Zouma, who is putting in a transfer request, so we will deffo need to keep Zappacosta)

Barkley

Pulisic

Mount 

Kovacic

 

with Luiz, Emerson, AC, Zappacosta, Pedro, Willian and the 3 strikers making up the balance of decent players (I refuse to put Alonso in there, lolol, even though he is probably not going to be sold)

 

 

[Tomo 21,751]

Leave him be until he's fully fit. Kovacic is more than adequate cover especially now it appears we're playing with a pivot.

[Jase 43,479]

The decision to play him in the Europa League final has come to bite us in the arse.

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38 minutes ago, Jason said:

The decision to play him in the Europa League final has come to bite us in the arse.

It was worth it though. Will probably be our last title for some time.

[Pizy 18,888]

It's as though our years of good fortune in terms of important players getting long term injuries has come finally reversed. So many important/exciting players out. Not being able to sign any new players would've been mitigated by starting the season with all these players fully fit.  Think about opening up against Man United with CHO and Pulisic on the wings and RLC charging in behind them. 😩

With Kante a potential doubt now as well it could be a bumpy start to the season. We've got players who can fill in short term like Kovacic but we can't cope for too long without him.

[Tomo 21,751]

55 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

It was worth it though. Will probably be our last title for some time.

We heard that last year and with almost every trophy lift this decade.

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1 hour ago, Jason said:

The decision to play him in the Europa League final has come to bite us in the arse.

Sarri didn't care. He wanted the trophy and knew he was off in the summer anyway so fielded Kante regardless of the long term consequences. I am just hoping Kante won't turn into Essien.

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4 minutes ago, milan.cech said:

Sarri didn't care. He wanted the trophy and knew he was off in the summer anyway so fielded Kante regardless of the long term consequences. I am just hoping Kante won't turn into Essien.

Thats true. Bad mobe by Sarri. But I really dont think so. Essien relied greatly on his power. Kante is an excellent reader of the game and he is good in tight spaces because of his low center of gravity. That wont go away with an injury even if his pace might

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19 minutes ago, Tomo said:

We heard that last year and with almost every trophy lift this decade.

Haha true. And we have another Chance in a few weeks. I really want that super cup. Eluded us twice before. Klopp won his first title in 7 years let's not make it a habit...