Leicester City’s French midfielder N’Golo Kante (L) vies with Chelsea’s English midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek during the English Premier League football match between Chelsea and Leicester City at Stamford Bridge in London on May 15, 2016.
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Mahrez, who was a key component in the Foxes’ unheralded title winning tilt last season, is barely 12 months into the three year deal he signed with the midlands side, which is thought to be worth £35k a week.
The former Leicester City man was linked with many other clubs this summer including Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain. It’s a dream come true for me. “I am looking forward to meeting up with my new teammates and helping the club achieve a lot of success”.
Kanté is Chelsea’s second acquisition of the summer after completing the £33m signing of the Belgium striker Michy Batshuayi from Marseille on 3 July. Both manager and player will be seeking to return Chelsea to the top of the Premier League.
The Blues and Conte lost their opening pre-season friendly 2-0 against Rapid Vienna on Saturday but had confirmed the signing of the French midfielder earlier in the day with Kante set to join up with his new team-mates after a post-Euro 2016 break. “I think with this player we’ve reinforced the squad”. “We know we have to improve but we prefer to wait and take the right player, rather than to go for a player with emotion that doesn’t adapt to our idea of football”.
“This first game for us, I know it was very hard after three days of training double every day”, he explained.
“I am very confident with him”, said the Italian this week.
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“I wanted him when I was a coach at Juventus and he will come back very soon and train and play with us”.
