Yes the tweeted article didn’t have any direct quotes, hence my questioning of it. Poor journalism.
I didn’t think we we’re in for him this summer but if we were maybe we got outbid. I remember we met with Leicester bosses in the summer.
Either way does anyone really fancy a midfield of Kante-Coq or Kante-Ramsey anyway? The distribution would be horrible.
A THOUGHT…Xhaka was done in January or earlier, if we were in for Kante in the summer then there’s hope for a midfield signing in the summer.
Kante is still an upgrade on every midfield option we have except for Santi.
Yea I think this is the only fair way to view it. If we signed him it wasn’t to play him with Coq, but rather in place of him.
This guy gets it.
Want the simplest example of just how good he is?
Look where Chavski were last season without him, and where Leics were with him
Now move on to this season…see where Leics are without him and where Chavs are with him…
Kante’s Leics won the league
Kante’s Chavs looking odds on to do the same …
You should have read the way some people reacted when I said he was better than Coq.
Very easy to say this when practically the whole Leicester team are playing well below their highs of last season and Chelsea couldn’t be as shit as they were for much longer particularly with Mourinho gone. If Kante were still at Leicester not much would bee different, even Raineri seems to be losing the dressing room because of head scratching tactics and decisions.
With that said he has clearly improved them and made that midfield incredibly hard to break down.
True, but he was an integral part of that Leics success, and is now an integral part of Chavs success…
Brilliant player - people who think he is limited or one dimensional haven’t been watching him.
Surely the myth that Kante is not a big upgrade on Coquelin has been dispelled.
His performance today should be on upload on Youporn.
I think Wenger suggested Kante’s wages were a problem so this is not new information.
Surprise surfuckingprise.
Wenger fucks up another transfer.
How the hell would Robbie Fowler know about the deal? Lol
Still, hardly unbelievable is it. We still can attract top players, not that our board and management are competent enough to consistently get good deals done.
Its not the board its FUCKING WENGER, how much does he ally and this fucking bullshit crap social wage structure he has in place so if a decent player comes along and wants to pay for us…ummm i can offer you £150k a week because i cannot piss off walcott…fuck right off wenger with this shit wage structure, just fuck off in general. No other club in the world is on this shit wage structure for a fucking reason.
Kante is only on £110,000 a week. Surely we could have matched that?! He is exactly what we needed!
too close to our top players wages, it will piss of the likes of walcott for a new person that comes from the likes of leicester to be paid as much as him nearly. This is the problem i know that what i said takes the piss a bit, but i can see this going on in wengers head each time…ohhhhh we can afford his transfer but pay him 200k a week yes we can afford that but you know what what will that make the ox feel like, what about ramsey etc…fucking twats shouldnt be at our club in the first place!
It’d be interesting to know if this would have been instead of or in addition to Xhaka. I’m guessing it’s in addition to if we were happy to pay 35m and 90k a week for Xhaka since that’s basically the same money and with how early it was done.
I’m guessing an Ox or Ramsey contract renewal would be around Kante money anyway.
Penny pincher once again.