Is N'Golo Kanté a Leicester City legend?

[les-tah]

ultimately the players in that winning team will go down as legends whether you agree or not.

[Durnerz]

The best player that I've ever seen in a Leicester shirt, by some distance. Absolute legend.

[Alf Bentley]

Absolutely key player in us winning the title. Of course he'll go down as a legend.

 

There'll be a warmer affection long-term for someone like Vardy, who was also crucial but stuck around for much longer - or for others like Walsh or Izzet.

 

But anyone who watched us that season knows that we'd have got nowhere near the title without N'Golo.

He'll surely have everlasting appreciation, respect, recognition - and a different sort of affection for that?

[RonnieTodger]

Without question. However many years down the line, you'll be able to name the 11 that won us the league and he played a monumental role in it. 

 

When he left, I was annoyed because Chelsea had finished 10th but he was vindicated.

 

Whilst we all love Izzet, Heskey, Elliott and further back: the likes of Worthington, Weller and Banks; Kante helped Leicester to becoming champions of England. Anyone that played a key part is worthy of legendary status.

 

 

[ClaphamFox]

Without question he's a legend. We would not have won the title without him. An astonishing player. 

[CarbonVirtine]

I guess it depends on your definition of 'legend'. For me, it's something you don't decide but it's more something that decides itself.

 

I'm reminded of the word 'controversial'. How many times do you hear a commentator say 'that is a controversial decision' seconds after the ref has made the call? If you think about the dictionary definition of 'controversial' (and I don't get hung up on those) then it's clearly NOT a controversial decision.... not YET anyway. It might be an hour later as all and sundry are screaming blue murder but at the time of the decision, the commentator can't say it is controversial. Controversy follows, or it doesn't. Clearly the commentator means something, and we pretty much know what they mean (more-or-less, hence me not getting hung up on dictionary definitions), but it's more along the lines of 'that COULD BE a controversial decision', or 'that is a decision I disagree with', or whatever else you might take from it.

 

Similar thing, for me anyway, with 'legend'. There's that time element built in. For me, it's too soon to say whether Kante will be a Leicester legend or not (not, as I said earlier, that I really care either way - I know what he meant to me) And moreover, we don't get to decide (in a formal way) whether he becomes one or no. If we're remembering him and his part in our club in 5, in 10, in 20 years time then I feel the question will have answered itself. 

Edited 3 May 2018 by CarbonVirtine

[sylofox]

12 hours ago, v6rat said:

Great player in a Leicester shirt, but one season doesn't make him a legend.

Bollox he was a major part in the perfect storm. In 30yrs you will tell your grand kids about it. The first 3 names will be Vardy Mahrez and Kante. You won't be telling them about simpson and Fuchs.

[indierich06]

13 hours ago, MisterFoxKillen said:

Today is the 2nd anniversary of when Leicester City managed to do the impossible: 

Winning Premier League against the odds of 5000/1

 

There's no doubt that Kanté is a fantastic footballer and was a cornerstone for LCFC making the greatest achivement in our history.

But the other hand, Kanté ditched us after just 1 season.

The likes of Vardy, Mahrez, Kasper etc. have stayed with us and delivered for several seasons at LCFC.

What's your thoughts about it?

 

To be honest, the stock of the other players you mentioned is going down pretty rapidly. I'd bet that in years to come, Kante will be remembered for his great performances and there won't be many people who would blame him for moving on after helping us achieve that once in a lifetime feat - as for the rest of them, there might be a few sour memories there. 

[davieG]

1 minute ago, sylofox said:

Bollox he was a major part in the perfect storm. In 30yrs you will tell your grand kids about it. The first 3 names will be Vardy Mahrez and Kante. You won't be telling them about simpson and Fuchs.

I'll be talking about Fuchs though probably not in 30yrs time  and my grandkids are Liverpool fans  

[Russell sprout]

12 hours ago, jammie82uk said:

Exceptional player but Not a legend for me 

Is Claudio a legend as he lasted 6 more months than Kante did then,cuz they both achieved the impossible,

imo there both legends,just curious as to how others define legend

[sylofox]

would Fuchs be in your first three names like Kante will?

[foxy boxing]

When we won the league he was one of the best players for us that season and will always be remembered for what he achieved with us but he was only here one season and made no bones about the fact that he wanted to leave for a bigger club with more opportunities to win trophies. he is a Leicester city title winner but not a Leicester city legend! Legends are built at clubs over time not one season!

[murphy]

I look forward to the time when his name is no longer mentioned on this forum. I mean there won't be a thread asking whether De Laet or DD is a legend from that team but for some reason we can't let the little guy go and he keeps cropping up here.  At least it's less than last year which was just embarrassing.  Grown men pining over their lost love.

 

He's moved on.  

 

Two years ago.

 

Why can't you?

[davieG]

10 minutes ago, sylofox said:

would Fuchs be in your first three names like Kante will?

Not sure how that defines a legend besides I didn't say Kante would or wouldn't I just wouldn't dismiss Fuchs as quickly as you seem to have done.

 

You don't define someone as a legend by belittling other players. If you're a legend you don't need to rate them against each other they're either legends or they're not.

[Brainy]

11 hours ago, the fox said:

being a great player doesn't mean that he is a legend here. 

What you said suggests nobody in that team is a legend then. Maybe individually you can make a case for Vardy.

 

 

Some people are so bitter about players leaving for better clubs/opportunities (not necessarily you)

[sylofox]

Nooooooooo I'm not dismissing Fuchs you've miss understood my point. Most people I feel will name Vardy Mahrez and Kante as a first three. I'm one that supports Simpson. Who gets less credit than anyone.

[Guest Col city fan]

I’ll always remember Kante as the best box to box midfielder I’ve ever seen in a City shirt, as a key man involved in winning the title and as a bloke who just got on with what he was doing.

Of course he’s a legend.

[the fox]

33 minutes ago, Walkers said:

What you said suggests nobody in that team is a legend then. Maybe individually you can make a case for Vardy.

 

 

Some people are so bitter about players leaving for better clubs/opportunities (not necessarily you)

 

Kasper, Wes, Drinky, Vards and Riyad are legends in my books. The tasted the bitter and the sweet, from the championship to the champions league. Simmo, fuchs, marc.. etc have an outside chance.

[An Away Move]

No Kanté. No league title. He was the key alchemical ingredient that made all the parts click IMO. How many times did he break up play and help us turn defence into devastating counter attack? Definite club legend. He even came back to watch his mates play key games and I'm sure Leicester will always sit fondly in his heart. I would rather have lost Mahrez than him after that season. 

[Babylon]

Some legends are bigger ones than others. He was a huge part in us winning the league, so of course he is. Doesn't mean he's on the same level as other legends, like Vardy or past ones who were here for decades and contributed so much like Walsh (to some). 

[Brainy]

17 minutes ago, the fox said:

Kasper, Wes, Drinky, Vards and Riyad are legends in my books. The tasted the bitter and the sweet, from the championship to the champions league. Simmo, fuchs, marc.. etc have an outside chance.

We just have different ideas of what defines a legend then

[Guest]

He's as much a legend as Mahrez imo.

[coolhandfox]

All depends on how you define legend, I always define it as something or someone I would tell my son or grandkids about when talking about City.

 

Take Kevin Russell not the best player or played that may games for City, but I never forget the end of the first play off  season, going to Upton park with around 10'000 city fans with grown men dress as roosters.

 

For me there are just different types of cult heroes, legends which isn't always defined by length of tenue.

 

 

 

[Babylon]

Just now, coolhandfox said:

All depends on how you define legend, I always define it as something or someone I would tell my son or grandkids about when talking about City.

 

Take Kevin Russell not the best player or played that may games for City, but I never forget the end of the first play off  season, going to Upton park with around 10'000 city fans with grown men dress as roosters.

 

For me there are just different types of cult heroes, legends which isn't always defined by length of tenue.

 

 

 

ROOSTER....

[daddylonglegs]

Yes. If you've ever booed him when hes come back you're a certified nonce.