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N'golo Kante - We are not worthy!

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I certainly like seeing Kante break, he carries the ball so well.

Also acknowledge he has given away possession and it has cost us at times.

Would be interesting to know whether there is a pattern to him giving the ball away, like is it always after say 70 mins?

I thought that Kante was our best player. He did everything yesterday, and the amount of forward passes he gave should have resulted in a goal at the very least and we wouldn't have this conversation of giving away the ball. First of all he cleared it, came back, yes he froze for a second but he is human and not a play station player. 

We were let down by our attackers simple as that. Tuchel needs to find a way to get the attackers firing, surely they cant be all terrible. They cost a combined value of 500 million or something. 

1 hour ago, Gentian said:

I thought that Kante was our best player. He did everything yesterday, and the amount of forward passes he gave should have resulted in a goal at the very least and we wouldn't have this conversation of giving away the ball. First of all he cleared it, came back, yes he froze for a second but he is human and not a play station player. 

We were let down by our attackers simple as that. Tuchel needs to find a way to get the attackers firing, surely they cant be all terrible. They cost a combined value of 500 million or something. 

Was our right side invisible on your stream or something?

1 hour ago, Zeta said:

Thought he played very well yesterday.

He did....he was awesome. Until he gave the ball away that cost us a win. 

He was also good against Madrid (2nd leg). Until he gave the ball away that cost us our place in the semi's

4 hours ago, Backbiter said:

Was our right side invisible on your stream or something?

Reece James did very well too but than I would say Kantes position is more vital and he controlled the midfield and flow of play with Jorginho.

6 hours ago, nonotnowjim said:

He did....he was awesome. Until he gave the ball away that cost us a win. 

He was also good against Madrid (2nd leg). Until he gave the ball away that cost us our place in the semi's

Yep. Kante was superb last night, more like the Kante of old, but that one error cost us the 3 points (as did our inept attack).

1 hour ago, Nibs said:

Yep. Kante was superb last night, more like the Kante of old, but that one error cost us the 3 points (as did our inept attack).

Yeah, a shame. As I said in the match day thread, he can be 10 out of 10 every game,  but if the mistakes continue, it will be for nothing.

One off mistakes can happen, that is part and parcel of the game, but the worry is that it is now getting a persistent trend that is constantly costing us results. Similar to Mendy and his kicking, although Mendy has cost us less goals with his kicking than Kante has recently with his bad passing, lack of concentration or slow thinking. 

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6 hours ago, bisright1 said:

So how much would we accept for him from United? 70m? 80?

I heard that rumour. If he is not signing a new deal qe should sell him this summer. No more losing good players for free. Roman could afford it, new owners? I doubt it.

2 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Going to enter the new season with Bakayoko and Gallagher. 

Love it. 

If we sell Kante, we will buy someone else. And ideally someone who is younger and less injury prone

18 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Going to enter the new season with Bakayoko and Gallagher. 

Love it. 

The midfield that would be the so called domestic spine for us, combined with the 2 full-backs:

James Gilmour Rice Chilwell
        Gallagher Mount

This season only Mount has more PL goals that Gallagher and he's 22 y/o playing for a mid table team. in Defense press with Mount and Gallagher should work and Rice should cover for Gilmour's weaknesses, in transition give the ball to Gilmour and in the final third Gallagher and Mount should have 10 goals each. I think we'll be just fine.

It’s probably the first time I’d consider selling Kante if anyone comes in with a big offer. He quite clearly have declined sadly, it feels like it is becoming less and less frequent to see him at his best.

I wouldn’t mind keeping him as a squad player and save him for big games but if someone comes in with a 60m offer, that’ll be difficult to turn down imo.

It's a dilemma with our great N'Golo because he's capable of reaching levels almost any midfielder would be envious of. But for the last few years he's only reached those levels for a limited run of games, for example in the Champions League last season. But for a league campaign you have got to the point where you can't really rely on him to 1, stay fit, and 2, be consistently at the top of his game.

And with that in mind you definitly got a decision to make when he's got a year left on his contract. He's our highest paid player with Lukaku and we pay him about £15 million every year which is a lot. Considering he's 31 now and showing signs of decline I would be vary of offering him a new long-term contract at this point. And if we don't we will need to sell him this summer so we can spend those funds on a rebuild.

The last 2-3 years we have seen his body adjust .. we have used him in different roles.. Sarri tried to make him an AM and played him to the ground .. probably also started his hamstring issues

lamps tried him in the pivot and conte was handed a generally half for Kante …

At 31 he is fairly young for a mid fielder and easily has 2-3 years left. I think we should give him an extension and let him  rest in the off season and come back the monster he can be.

5 hours ago, dansubrosa said:

It’s probably the first time I’d consider selling Kante if anyone comes in with a big offer. He quite clearly have declined sadly, it feels like it is becoming less and less frequent to see him at his best.

I wouldn’t mind keeping him as a squad player and save him for big games but if someone comes in with a 60m offer, that’ll be difficult to turn down imo.

 

5 hours ago, Mário César said:

60M€ and we can sell him 

eheh 

 

1 hour ago, timetowaste said:

If we get a big offer outside the premier league we should consider it but if Man Utd come in no chance.

 

23 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Talk of United wanting him and Ziyech. End of the day we are not Roman's bottomless pit of cash anymore, if a good offer comes in considering Kantes age and mobility being a huge part of his game we should consider it.

I agree with most of what you guys say but this is absolute blasphemy!

Keeping kante even in a wheelchair adds more than most, Deserves an extension and def shouldn't go to anyone in the pl

Outrageous! 😄

57 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Talk of United wanting him and Ziyech. End of the day we are not Roman's bottomless pit of cash anymore, if a good offer comes in considering Kantes age and mobility being a huge part of his game we should consider it.

We haven't been a bottomless pit of money for a long time. I'd say of Boehly takes over we've probably got more to spend than in the last 5 years. 

But we should still sell both of them to united. 100m will do. 

 

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