N'Golo Kante

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11 hours ago, milka said:

Chelsea have approached Leicester City over a transfer move for N’Golo Kante at the end of the season, according to reports.
Kante, who arrived at the King Power Stadium last summer, has been one of the outstanding players in the Premier League this season and is being tipped to be named PFA Player of the Year.
Get French Football News say the Blues have made discreet enquiries about the hugely promising 24-year-old.
The London outfit are looking to bring midfield reinforcements to Stamford Bridge after a difficult campaign and Kante is understood to be a top target.

Tabloid fodder.

It will be a signing of the magnitude of Papy Djilobdoji. 

Or another loan signing of some washed-out South American player.

[It's too big 625]

1 hour ago, chelseafan26 said:

If you trust the outlets then we are going to buy Kante, Vidal, Naingollan, Witsel and Oscar de Marcos. Not sure how we intend to fit all of them in one team. 

Rather that problem than not enough quality centre mids and get run over in centre of park like previously. 

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

There will be many players coming and going this summer IMO.  Kante is not a far fetched signing.  He is far more likely to happen than the likes of Vidal, Pogba, Bonucci, Marquinhos, Stones etc

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Starting to think he should be our priority in summer. 

Just looks amazing everytime I watch him. 

[Pizy 18,853]

If we can't manage to get any of the loftier targets then he's a great fallback option. 

[Kieran. 6,317]

A little worried he wouldn't be able to handle 50-60 games a season as Leicester did not play in Europe and got knocked out of the cups relatively early. Obviously we likely won't be in Europe next season but we will be back the year after. Could he handle 60 games a year plus international duty? Not convinced. 

[manpe 10,861]

5 hours ago, Kieran. said:

A little worried he wouldn't be able to handle 50-60 games a season as Leicester did not play in Europe and got knocked out of the cups relatively early. Obviously we likely won't be in Europe next season but we will be back the year after. Could he handle 60 games a year plus international duty? Not convinced. 

Not possibru to tell until it happens. And it's about time we start snapping up quality players before they prove and win everything and we have to throw 50M at them. Plus hopefully under Conte we'll rotate more, so he won't have to play all those 60 games.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Would much rather we went out and scouted our own talent as opposed to pinching it from a team having a fluke season who will redefine the credential of "worst defending PL champion of all-time", a title we currently possess. 

[Special Juan 28,100]

8 hours ago, Pizy said:

If we can't manage to get any of the loftier targets then he's a great fallback option. 

The problem there mate is we tend to go for our main targets a few weeks before the window closes.

[Blue Colored Sky 1,807]

2 hours ago, BlueLion said:

Would much rather we went out and scouted our own talent as opposed to pinching it from a team having a fluke season who will redefine the credential of "worst defending PL champion of all-time", a title we currently possess. 

Easy to assume that there is such player, who has the required abilities and will acclimatize seemingly ?

Chelsea tried that and were berated for lack of ambition.

Anyway, Kante hasn't got fluke season, it's actually his second great season when he has the highest amount of tackles in Europe. I wouldn't worry about him, the players like Drinkwater, Huth, Morgan and Vardy are the players that are having the season of their lives, I'd think that Kante and Mahrez are here to stay.

The other player who has similar stats to Kante both last season in France and this season in the Premier League is Idrissa Gueye from Aston Villa. Maybe he is that unknown quantity and not so hard to buy. But Kante looks like safer bet.

 

[Pizy 18,853]

3 hours ago, Special Juan said:

The problem there mate is we tend to go for our main targets a few weeks before the window closes.

Maybe this summer will be more like the Costa/Cesc/Luis window than last summer. I hope. I pray...

[chelseafan26 293]

5 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Maybe this summer will be more like the Costa/Cesc/Luis window than last summer. I hope. I pray...

I think, more than the board, it was jose who was responsible for that. He had a plan, he knew EXACTLY what he wanted and "luckily" all of these players were available. With no European competition, no Manager, a squad which is likely to lose its "best" players (according to FIFA ratings), I think, we are simply going to be plugging holes all through the transfer window. Lets just hope we look to the youth to plug some of those holes instead of the mercenaries that we love to buy.

[Cosmin 2,484]

So people really believe that he's going to sign for us? Bruh... He has the chance to play UCL football, with Leicester or any other club (there will be plenty wanting him this summer). Why would he choose Chelsea? Let's be honest. Our best chance is to try signing a few lads ready to fight for the club and, if possible, one or two big names. I would go for Zlatan and Vidal, as both might want to take a new challenge and work for Conte again. There is absolutely no chance that we sign players like Kante this summer. 

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2 hours ago, chelseafan26 said:

I think, more than the board, it was jose who was responsible for that. He had a plan, he knew EXACTLY what he wanted and "luckily" all of these players were available. With no European competition, no Manager, a squad which is likely to lose its "best" players (according to FIFA ratings), I think, we are simply going to be plugging holes all through the transfer window. Lets just hope we look to the youth to plug some of those holes instead of the mercenaries that we love to buy.

That's reality right there.

The players have only themselves to blame for putting our club in this mess. It's also the board's fault for not consistently listening to us fans and giving us what we want.. a massive fresh-up of the squad, maintaining our status.. there was none of that last summer.. and so now we're left to feel sorry for ourselves, while our board members have the club's blood on their hands. At the end of the day, it's the board's job to maintain the club, and keep the fans at ease, and if they've failed to do that, then no-one is doing their job!

Plus, I don't want have to include Eva Carneiro in all of this, but if it hadn't been for Mourinho talking rubbish about her at the start of the season, the "rot" would never have happened. It all sparked from that.

[Pizy 18,853]

4 hours ago, Cosmin said:

So people really believe that he's going to sign for us? Bruh... He has the chance to play UCL football, with Leicester or any other club (there will be plenty wanting him this summer). Why would he choose Chelsea? Let's be honest. Our best chance is to try signing a few lads ready to fight for the club and, if possible, one or two big names. I would go for Zlatan and Vidal, as both might want to take a new challenge and work for Conte again. There is absolutely no chance that we sign players like Kante this summer. 

So we have a chance at signing two of the most coveted world class players in Europe but "absolutely no chance" at signing a player no one had heard of before this season who plays for a tiny club that most people outside of England had never heard of before this season?

Come on, mate.