foxoffderby Posted 19 May 2017 Share Posted 19 May 2017 http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/michael-emenalo-i-sent-flowers-to-leicester-for-letting-chelsea-sign-ngolo-kante-a3543251.html After last nights performance shows again how we undersold Kante. £32m is cheap looking back now. Should we have matched £150k a week Chelsea were offering? I think so if we've given RM and DD £100K a week. Hindsight is a great thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmarteyAndChill Posted 19 May 2017 Share Posted 19 May 2017 3 minutes ago, foxoffderby said: http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/michael-emenalo-i-sent-flowers-to-leicester-for-letting-chelsea-sign-ngolo-kante-a3543251.html After last nights performance shows again how we undersold Kante. £32m is cheap looking back now. Should we have matched £150k a week Chelsea were offering? I think so if we've given RM and DD £100K a week. Hindsight is a great thing. He'd have still gone, even if we matched his wages. He wanted to join Chelsea. Let it go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKCJ Posted 19 May 2017 Share Posted 19 May 2017 What a ****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costock_Fox Posted 19 May 2017 Share Posted 19 May 2017 To be fair I bet they look lovely in Rudkins office. Fair play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucey Posted 19 May 2017 Share Posted 19 May 2017 Kantes clause was 20m to any CL club. He would have gone anyway, yet we got to squeeze significantly more from Chelsea due to their lack of CL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arriba Los Zorros Posted 19 May 2017 Share Posted 19 May 2017 10 minutes ago, Costock_Fox said: To be fair I bet they look lovely in Rudkins office. Fair play. I bet he was really chuffed with himself. Good old Rudders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox92 Posted 19 May 2017 Share Posted 19 May 2017 Said in the summer he was our most important player; I'd have chosen to lose any other player over him. Chelsea are in a totally different league to us (ie they'll be in Europe and challenging for the title every season) but yeah we should have seen how much it would have taken to keep him here - within limits of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st albans fox Posted 19 May 2017 Share Posted 19 May 2017 You forgot the 8 mill s/o fee. It wasn't just the wages ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babylon Posted 19 May 2017 Share Posted 19 May 2017 Remember that thread where people were saying Chelsea will struggle to get in the champions league and he could regret leaving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox92 Posted 19 May 2017 Share Posted 19 May 2017 11 minutes ago, Babylon said: Remember that thread where people were saying Chelsea will struggle to get in the champions league and he could regret leaving. I remember me and @Koke telling people Arsenal will finish above us (re Vardy leaving) and he'd have more chance playing in Europe again going there but the World wouldn't listen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 19 May 2017 Share Posted 19 May 2017 We had no chance of keeping him, whatever we offered, he wanted to join an elite side which he has got now. He also had a release clause in his contract which meant it was difficult to not accept what Chelsea was offering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stadt Posted 19 May 2017 Share Posted 19 May 2017 Maybe Conte convinced him to go? He seems like he'd be absolutely brilliant to play for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Posted 19 May 2017 Share Posted 19 May 2017 1 hour ago, brucey said: Kantes clause was 20m to any CL club. He would have gone anyway, yet we got to squeeze significantly more from Chelsea due to their lack of CL. Yep. We didn't want to lose him for that and knew he was going so offered him to Chelsea for more money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcfc48 Posted 19 May 2017 Share Posted 19 May 2017 It's well known that Kante didn't particularly want to join us in the first place. If part of persuading him to join was by inserting a release clause in his contract then as disappointing as it was to lose him for less than he's worth, it's arguably the best bit of business we've done. Without it we may never have won the Premier League. You could even say that the financial reward for winning the league and then playing in the Champions League this season has more than covered any additional amount we may have got for him had he not had a release clause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milo Posted 19 May 2017 Share Posted 19 May 2017 We've all played Football Manager and tried to sign a player that didn't really want to come...you end up offering them the earth to try and persuade them to join you - including buy out clauses. Can't really complain when someone comes along and offers more than the buy out clause, unfortunately. Happy with N'didi, And he'll be even better next season. Need an upgrade on Shinji and Drinky to wake up and we'll have a decent midfield again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miquel The Work Geordie Posted 19 May 2017 Share Posted 19 May 2017 Michael Emenalo's favourite album is the Top Gear CD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenny_fox Posted 19 May 2017 Share Posted 19 May 2017 can he return the favour and let us have Abraham and Ake. Maybe chuck in Hazard for good measure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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