Giggsyking
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He's not as crucial to Chelsea as he once was and picks up 2-3 niggly injuries during a season but he would make a vast improvement still to your midfield carcass.I think it's a bit late now unfortunately.
Good source in the past for what its worth.Sounds like bollox to me from Steve Bates.
He’s hardly John Terry. He joined Chelsea last week. And we have done business with Chelsea before.Doesn't strike me as the type who would play at one of Chelsea's rivals, even though it's not the fiercest of rivalries.
Indeed, our squad is far too old already.We should have a cap of 25 years for any signing within the next three years.
From an article in the Sunday Times. Sound like the sort of signing we should be making right now?Recently, though, Kanté’s form has fallen away. Holes have begun to appear in that impenetrable forcefield. He has, very occasionally, had bad games before now, most notably the 2018 World Cup final, when L’Équipe gave him a score of three out of ten and he was baled out by his pivot partner, Paul Pogba. But those performances have begun to occur more often, and with fewer superhuman displays in between. That distinctive running gait, conveying both lightness and urgency — the dash of a boy running to the grocery store to acquit an errand for which he has been promised extra pocket money — has started to look a little heavier and more frantic.
Kanté struggled against Brentford in the 4-1 defeat at Stamford Bridge last month; was substituted at half-time in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Real Madrid, having not completed a single dribble, tackle or interception; then was at fault for Cristiano Ronaldo’s equaliser in the 1-1 draw against Manchester United. Since then, he has been out injured, another recurring theme of a difficult season.
Kanté’s decline, if we can call it that, has mostly been explained as a physical depletion, a pilot light going out. “The last two years, [he’s had] so many injuries,” his fellow World Cup-winning France midfielder Emmanuel Petit said. “He can bring the same energy and the same display on the pitch, but not every three days. He’s 31-years-old and he’s not immortal.”