N'Golo Kante - Confirmed - £32m to Chelsea

[Anon]

Who gives a shit, ive just smoked a joint and watched this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eheS7HN_Xe4

 

I can tell you now he looks absolutely ****ing class, better technically than kante will ever be and puts a shift in too.

 

Only shame we didnt extract as much cash as we maybe could of, we kave a kante-drinkwater hybrid now bollox to him.

 

 

 

Watching more of him, pings the ball for fun, pinpoint, technically perfection.

[ScouseFox]

We should've matched that offer. We had the best midfielder in the Prem and we let him go for another 50k pw?

 

it's not just an extra 50k though in the long term. give kante 150k and vardy's new contract is suddenly min 150k, the contract mahrez doesn't want to sign is at least 150k, any new signings know we're happy to pay 150k a week and suddenly we've got double figures on 150-180k a week or something mental. 

 

it's probably not a massively risky road to go down but i doubt claudio or the owners will want to go down that road right now. 

[TJB-fox]

Adidas being involved is a brilliant shout-hadn't thought about that.

Kante Just comes across as an absolute puppet in this whole fiasco to be honest, has he even been told he's joining Chelsea??

[Bob Weasel Fox]

I wouldn't boo him if he plays against us, though most on this thread are very likely to.

He's done immense with us, and made his mind up based on what 100,000's of footballers do; just wrong timing and no 'Thank You'-type ending happened that had somewhat caused a stir.

He is a total judas according to some

Defo get booed from most I would of thought

He will get Brian Little type abuse and then some I would imagine

[WigstonWanderer]

Agreed, Kante knew what he was doing and signing up for......a deal of a lifetime. BTW it's £150k tax free

How do we know that? Effectively that makes it 300k pw. Seems unlikely unless all footballers' wages are quoted after tax?

[TeamRocket]

Why aint this S*** closed yet aint woth talking about a has been on here think he belongs in the former players room

[ozleicester]

Chlsea - meh.

 

They arent a big club. they are a club that got lucky by having billions of dodgy roubles thrown at them.

Barely 100 years old

until the roubles arrived they had won only a couple of things (1 fa cup and 1 league title)

their "success" in europe is minimal

 

I accept that Kante has taken the money and run but i dont need the bullsh!t that surrounds it, they arent a big club, they are a rich club.

[Jattdogg]

Ive moved on. Dont have time for the greedy knob end.

Go on leicester lets makes some fkin noise!

[Jattdogg]

Kante tell if i like this new look on our forum. 

[Sir Claudio]

An open letter to N'golo Kanté and Antonio Conte

You are my Kanté,  my only Kanté 

You make me happy, when skies are grey

You'll never know dear, how much I love you 

Please don't take my Kanté away

[Sir Claudio]

An open letter to N'golo Kanté and Antonio Conte

You are my Kanté,  my only Kanté 

You make me happy, when skies are grey

You'll never know dear, how much I love you 

Please don't take my Kanté away

[UPinCarolina]

1 hour ago, Sir Claudio said:

An open letter to N'golo Kanté and Antonio Conte

You are my Kanté,  my only Kanté 

You make me happy, when skies are grey

You'll never know dear, how much I love you 

Please don't take my Kanté away

Too late.

[Guest Cujek]

6 hours ago, shen said:

 

We should've matched that offer. We had the best midfielder in the Prem and we let him go for another 50k pw?

We shouldn't be held to ransom by money grabbing whores, let him rot on the Chelsea bench as he will do 

[bobrivers]

19 minutes ago, Gerbold said:

He was the worst type of interloper -  posing as a conciliatory visitor, yet really a condescending and patronising twot, feeding on the distress his club had initiated by hiring Kanté and rubbing it in, under the guise of being a realist - and there you are siding with him by sneering at the understandable emotion arising from this disadvantageous transaction.

 

 

Very well put, my kind sir. Why would you waste your extraordinary literary talents posting on football forums I have no idea.

[Bazly]

Chelsea seem to think they are a big club which when you consider their chequered past is hard to justify. During the 80's Chelsea were a second division side for most of it and at best mid table top division when not. Wasn't till the money came in that they started to win things and challenge for the league. Chelski are one of 3 £bn projects in the EPL and their purchasing power is impossible to resist. Kante from a reported £35k a week (and presumably he joined us with a pay rise) to £150k means he has probably 7 folded his wages in a year. That's dream stuff for any professional in any profession.

 

However, all this guff about joining a big team. Chelsea aren't a big team they are a very rich owners team. Chelsea are at a juncture in their project where a few years, as Man U are finding, outside of the challenging spots severely hurts the pulling power. If Chelski cannot turn around quickly they will soon need to be offering £200k a week to attract talent from other teams. For Leicester, its best to leave Chelski to do what they and other money no object clubs do and we can forever claim to be the only side never to have bought the league title. We have witnessed what that is worth to every true football fan across the football World outside of the few money no object clubs.

[One Ranieri]

I think this move is so hard for some because it crystallises the feeling that the league title win might be viewed as a freak accident or a one-off, that will have no real lasting effects. The wider media saw it as a fairytale and they probably believe it's reached it's climax, save for a European epilogue to tie up some loose ends.

 

In that context maybe the move makes sense. Just as one league title can't suddenly elevate a team into the upper tier of clubs, one poor season doesn't suddenly reduce the lure of a Chelsea or Man United. As others have pointed out, Chelsea have been a Champions League mainstay for over a decade and as much as some would like to put that all down to their owner I remember them having the likes of Zola, Gullit, Vialli et al playing in European competitions in the 90s. 

 

That's what players of Kante's age have grown up seeing. I don't know who inspired the guy but is it fair to say that maybe he looked up to people like Claude Makelele or Michael Essien or Nicolas Anelka or Didier Drogba or maybe even contemporaries like Eden Hazard?

 

If Conte said he could be part of that then it's going to have appeal and it's going to be attractive. I think in the same way Chelsea didn't lose it's appeal to sponsors (they managed to double their kit fee to £60 million despite finishing 10th!) it won't lose it's appeal to players after just one year.

 

 

[Jimothy]

21 minutes ago, One Ranieri said:

I think this move is so hard for some because it crystallises the feeling that the league title win might be viewed as a freak accident or a one-off, that will have no real lasting effects. The wider media saw it as a fairytale and they probably believe it's reached it's climax, save for a European epilogue to tie up some loose ends.

 

In that context maybe the move makes sense. Just as one league title can't suddenly elevate a team into the upper tier of clubs, one poor season doesn't suddenly reduce the lure of a Chelsea or Man United. As others have pointed out, Chelsea have been a Champions League mainstay for over a decade and as much as some would like to put that all down to their owner I remember them having the likes of Zola, Gullit, Vialli et al playing in European competitions in the 90s. 

 

That's what players of Kante's age have grown up seeing. I don't know who inspired the guy but is it fair to say that maybe he looked up to people like Claude Makelele or Michael Essien or Nicolas Anelka or Didier Drogba or maybe even contemporaries like Eden Hazard?

 

If Conte said he could be part of that then it's going to have appeal and it's going to be attractive. I think in the same way Chelsea didn't lose it's appeal to sponsors (they managed to double their kit fee to £60 million despite finishing 10th!) it won't lose it's appeal to players after just one year.

 

 

 

All that's true, but I guess like you say it about the feeling that this is one off, so people will jump ship. If we'd finished 6th or something and only had a Europa league spot I could totally understand the move, but we've won the league and have a Champions league spot and he's still gone. If he'd left last seasons West Ham for Chelsea it'd almost makes sense, but to leave the champions doesn't. Moves like this only serve to restore the status quo rather than challenge it.

 

I guess it's about strength of character, and Kante doesn't have it. He wants to follow others rather than create a history himself. He wants to be the new Makelele at Chelsea and not be THE Ngolo Kante at Leicester. I'd respect a player more who creates his own path not walks somebody else's.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

2 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

 

All that's true, but I guess like you say it about the feeling that this is one off, so people will jump ship. If we'd finished 6th or something and only had a Europa league spot I could totally understand the move, but we've won the league and have a Champions league spot and he's still gone. If he'd left last seasons West Ham for Chelsea it'd almost makes sense, but to leave the champions doesn't. Moves like this only serve to restore the status quo rather than challenge it.

 

I guess it's about strength of character, and Kante doesn't have it. He wants to follow others rather than create a history himself. He wants to be the new Makelele at Chelsea and not be THE Ngolo Kante at Leicester. I'd respect a player more who creates his own path not walks somebody else's.

Superb post buddy

 

yep pretty much how a lot of us are feeling about it

 

gutted for football as much as Leicester 

 

appallingly shit decision from NGolo no matter how this season pans out

[One Ranieri]

4 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

 

All that's true, but I guess like you say it about the feeling that this is one off, so people will jump ship. If we'd finished 6th or something and only had a Europa league spot I could totally understand the move, but we've won the league and have a Champions league spot and he's still gone. If he'd left last seasons West Ham for Chelsea it'd almost makes sense, but to leave the champions doesn't. Moves like this only serve to restore the status quo rather than challenge it.

 

I guess it's about strength of character, and Kante doesn't have it. He wants to follow others rather than create a history himself. He wants to be the new Makelele at Chelsea and not be THE Ngolo Kante at Leicester. I'd respect a player more who creates his own path not walks somebody else's.

 

Maybe he wants to be the N'Golo Kante of Chelsea though. He's still young, he could be there for a decade and in that time he could forge his own path. I know some have made comments about him wasting away on the bench but I think he's a guaranteed starter for Chelsea and elevates them in a position they were sorely lacking. All the criticisms of their midfield, that it lacked bite and energy, are remedied for a bargain price. They already got rid of Ramires and they'll probably dump Mikel too.

 

That to me is astounding - Chelsea have acquired the best midfielder in the league with the money they got from selling Jon Obi Mikel and Ramires!

 

As for his character, I think it goes back to this 'hierarchy of clubs'. He joined Leicester having left a mid-sized club in France whom he joined from a smaller club. His career thus far has been stepping stones up the football pyramid and he would've signed with that view in mind, hence the release clause. That we all agree on I assume? 

 

Where there will be disagreement is whether he's continued that or whether the title win upended everything and this move is a backwards move.

 

He's moved from the Champions of England to a mid-table side = backwards step/greedy/money-motivated.

 

OR

 

He's moved from Leicester who over the last decade have played Two seasons in the Premier league, to a club who in that same period WON the Premier League FOUR times.

 

 

He's left a team who have qualified for the Champions League for the first time to join a team who spent each of the last 14 (?) seasons in the Champions League, reached two finals and won it once. 

 

Honestly, I think the stature of a club is something that is built over time. Chelsea have been doing that for the last two decades and are a massive club worldwide (hence the Nike and Yokohama deals), whereas Leicester are maybe taking their first few steps in doing that.

[los dedos]

9 minutes ago, One Ranieri said:

 

Maybe he wants to be the N'Golo Kante of Chelsea though. He's still young, he could be there for a decade and in that time he could forge his own path. I know some have made comments about him wasting away on the bench but I think he's a guaranteed starter for Chelsea and elevates them in a position they were sorely lacking. All the criticisms of their midfield, that it lacked bite and energy, are remedied for a bargain price. They already got rid of Ramires and they'll probably dump Mikel too.

 

That to me is astounding - Chelsea have acquired the best midfielder in the league with the money they got from selling Jon Obi Mikel and Ramires!

 

As for his character, I think it goes back to this 'hierarchy of clubs'. He joined Leicester having left a mid-sized club in France whom he joined from a smaller club. His career thus far has been stepping stones up the football pyramid and he would've signed with that view in mind, hence the release clause. That we all agree on I assume? 

 

Where there will be disagreement is whether he's continued that or whether the title win upended everything and this move is a backwards move.

 

He's moved from the Champions of England to a mid-table side = backwards step/greedy/money-motivated.

 

OR

 

He's moved from Leicester who over the last decade have played Two seasons in the Premier league, to a club who in that same period WON the Premier League FOUR times.

 

 

He's left a team who have qualified for the Champions League for the first time to join a team who spent each of the last 14 (?) seasons in the Champions League, reached two finals and won it once. 

 

Honestly, I think the stature of a club is something that is built over time. Chelsea have been doing that for the last two decades and are a massive club worldwide (hence the Nike and Yokohama deals), whereas Leicester are maybe taking their first few steps in doing that.

Massive club lol.Mate you forgot to start your post with.'Chelsea fan in peace'

[Darkon84]

Absolutely staggering levels stupidity going on in here  

 

He's being used as a puppet,

He doesn't know what he's doing,

Chelsea aren't a big club,

Why don't we just offer him more money.

 

Bloody hell

 

[One Ranieri]

1 minute ago, los dedos said:

Massive club lol.Mate you forgot to start your post with.'Chelsea fan in peace'

 

Come on mate I'm just trying to be a tad objective and I did say worldwide.

 

There was a report a few months ago that they sell more shirts worldwide than any other club not named Barcelona or Bayern Munich. Right now I think only United have a bigger kit deal in place. Their training kit deal is worth about £10 million I think which is probably higher than most Premier League teams get for their first-team kit.

 

They're not a super-club like Real Madrid, Barcelona, United or Bayern but I'd say they're definitely at the top-end of that next tier if you look at worldwide presence and just imagine for a second that your're a 25 year old who grew up in France. You've seen some of the biggest players in that league joining that club, winning the biggest trophies and playing the top French teams almost on an annual basis in the Champions League. Hell, even the current French coach used to play for Chelsea! I think that impacts someone like Kante's thinking.

[Gerard]

12 hours ago, Finnegan said:

We've just lost our best player to a divisional rival having just won the league and a fan of that club turns up to be condescending.

It's just sugar coated trolling. What was he expecting?

 

Agree, we know the hierarchy of the jungle.

 

Lions > hyenas > cheetahs > prey

 

We don't need some condescending dullard to spell it out for us that they are lions and we are hyenas.

[leicsmac]

1 hour ago, bobrivers said:

 

Very well put, my kind sir. Why would you waste your extraordinary literary talents posting on football forums I have no idea.

 

Dressing up justification for emotionalist diatrabes in considerable writing skill doesn't make them any less irrational. As someone well versed in doing such myself, I acknowledge Gerbolds own ability with words, but still disagree with his argument.

 

Yes, this is a big event and outbursts of anger are entirely acceptable, but when such takes the form of wishing harm upon the player or totally unjustified hostility towards a fan from a different club, presenting them as patronising as fact rather than mere opinion - and/or thinking both of those actions are justified given the circumstances...then expect to get called out by others for it. There is such a thing as going too far.

[Manwell Pablo]

3 hours ago, Gerbold said:

Great post, my arse. He was the worst type of interloper -  posing as a conciliatory visitor, yet really a condescending and patronising twot, feeding on the distress his club had initiated by hiring Kanté and rubbing it in, under the guise of being a realist - and there you are siding with him by sneering at the understandable emotion arising from this disadvantageous transaction. Any sensible and respectful Chelsea fan would have stayed away - his very presence was an irritant.

"Small club mentality" is it? Ranieri hasn't been 'small club' about it and the Club (that is the Messrs Srivaddhanaprabha) have been dignified, as ever, about his exit. So your scathing response isn't about the Club's mentality at all - it's about the fans mentality. Given that the fans only possible investment is predicated around their emotional commitment to Leicester City, isn't it quite understandable that many would view his departure with disapointment and express that disappointment with varying degrees of negativity - from regret to outright rancour?

You're like that bloke at the funeral, urging the grieving to "buck up, he had a good innings and he's left a tidy sum for us all."  - as if anyone can switch off or suppress emotion at will. Kanté was part of something uniquely special which still had the potential to continue, but he's the one who broke ranks.

So gloss it up with your realism if that's how you deal with things. Howyever, I'll not be carving any voodoo doll but neither will I be creating a shrine to him.

 

 

I like a bit a realism Gerbold, tends to be you know, real. Unlike this Chicken Little act a worrying amount of our fan base are pulling

 

I think some of you lot need a reality check. And the small club mentality refers to you lot not the owners or the management they've been extremely professional, any supporter of a proper title challenging or consistent CL  qualifying team would not act like the world has ended because one player has left. Yet we are still acting like the mid table side who's just sold Emile Heskey not the Champions of England.

 

Ignoring you've just compared a football transaction to a funereal which is ridiculous in it's self, I don't see how anyone can view anything as a funereal like situation now I don't now, we've just won the Premier League.

 

Perhaps I'm coping with it better as I knew he was going anyway, he was making want away noises before the season had even finished, that was as clear as day to anyone willing to take notice of what is right in front of their face though. Yeah there was a condescending tone to his post but to be honest the way some of you are acting you deserve to be condescended.

 

I'd of thought after all our scouting team and management have delivered over the past few years there might be a bit more faith as well anyway, we wanted Mendy ahead of Kante last season anyway so I'm pretty sure he's going to at the very least give filling his boots a good go. The 32 Million has also paid for all our business so far this summer so we can now expect a good influx of players on top of that, I aint the one telling you to be plucky at this funereal mate, I aint even at your sodding funereal. He's gone, get over it, he's won us the Premier League, if he want's to go that much, Tara N'Golo thanks for the memories, we move forward.