Turned out the bid was €35M which is more or less £30M. It turned out that Suarez didn't have an applicable clause didn't he? I remember an article saying that he did have one but turned out it was only for foreign clubs or something like that. Because Arsenal decided to be cheeky with £40M+1 you told them to piss off and refused to negotiate with the buggers. Apparently they tried the same with Mahrez last season and we told them to bugger off too.
Ah that'd make more sense then. £32m seems an odd release clause though unless it was in Euro's originally? JWH came out and admitted there was a clause but they just refused to do business... Suarez probably wasn't fussed about really wanting to go there hence why nothing more probably happened or LFC were in theory in breach of contract I guess.
Kante's clause was the highest bid over £20M has to be accepted - in this case the highest bid was €35M (around £29M) but Chelsea bidded even higher (is reported to be £29.9M) and and unfortunately for us Kante was fussed about going there. That the bid was in euros was a bid weird but that is what Chinese clubs use due to favourable exchange rates or something.
It doesnt matter if we sell every player. What we acheived this season proved that money doesnt mean anything in football. Its about a team working hard for each other. No one can ever take this season away from us Hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard
Paint it how you will but l still can't work out how the Champions, playing in the Champions lge next season lost out to a team not even in europe, especially when he is still under contract & after offering him 100 g's a week. lf one of the 'big 4' had won the lge one of their top star wouldn't of left for another Prem club not in the Champions lge. Angry l am but l guess when we replace him & add more quality he'll be forgoten.
So Mahrez could be next ? l can´t get my head around it. Anyone would of thought we´d almost got relegated last season, have a crap manager, crap owners, are almost bankrupt & a team falling apart.
I still struggling as well to work it out. I hope Chelsea don't make Europe again this season. Would be great if we pipped them to the last europe spot. .
It's not whether you leave or not that is important; it's how you go about it. The guy was plucked from obscurity and given an opportunity. I know he was instrumental in helping us win the league, but we won it collectively as a team; it wasn't down to one player. The fact he doesn't want to help the team in the Champions League shows he didn't have much feeling for the rest of his team mates, so perhaps best he has gone. As others have said, no one player is better than the team. We still have the true heart of the team with us, so we give someone else an opportunity and we move on. It isn't as difficult to replace someone who runs around and intercepts a pass here and there as it is to get someone with creative ability who makes things happen. Key now is to make sure Drinkwater stays and hope we can get another midfield partnership going.
On a thread a good few weeks ago, I actually said that he was fast becoming my favourite Leicester player that I have ever seen. His quote about his move to Chelsea being 'a dream come true' doesnt change what I think he achieved for us, but does say a lot about what I think of his character. He had the chance to stay and be part of a revolutionary football movement but chose an ego option. Chap - your dream come true should be winning the Prem (tick), being the best you can and representing your country (tick). Two of which you achieved as a LCFC player. Good luck for the future but I will neither applaud nor boo you when you return to the KP, but treat you with complete indifference that your character deserves.
... I agree Barwell...and I had him as my player of the season. I think there may be something in him wanting to 'cash in' whilst he had the chance .. The waxing lyrical about a dream move etc has a whiff of bullshit ....before the Russians millions they were a yo yo club much like ourselves.. they have achieved since he took over but are certainly no European dynasty club yet ... and playing with the best players in the world? ...not one player at Chelsea currently would get in a World XI and perhaps not even the second XI ... can't recall one Chelsea player in the Euro semis? I'll not forget the joy he brought last season ...nor the success that he hugely contributed to ..but the manner of, and rationale given for, his leaving makes it very difficult to wish him well ..
... been researching the translation of N'Golo Kante .. ""N'Golo" means "Little" or "Small" .. "Kante" ... means the same in English.
His departure isn't unexpected, the manor a bit disappointing, the chosen team baffling. He was instrumental in our success last season but so we're many others. We weren't a one man team last year and we won't be this season either.
Let's be honest lads, if we're going to boo Kante every time he touches the ball, we'll all end up with Totally agree!
... firstly, welcome on board mate.. ... secondly... quite right ... personally I'm now hoping to do the double over Chelsea with Nampalys Mendy getting the MOTM award in both ..
I feel genuinely over this as the futures of Mahrez and Walsh are much more important. We may well have an even better replacement in Mendy if he really was first choice last year and if we get past the summer unscathed other than this it'll be a successful summer
Couldn't have put it better myself THE BLOG Leicester Fans Deserve Better Than N’Golo Kanté 51 minutes ago | Updated 28 minutes ago Chris Whiting Liberal Democrat. Leicester City F.C. please log in to view this image MATTHEW ASHTON - AMA VIA GETTY IMAGES A real pet peeve of mine is when fans of other football clubs dictate how Leicester fans should react to things. That irritating eventuality came to fruition yet again this weekend as fans praised Kanté’s decision to leave for Chelsea. It’s silly but it bothers me. The City fanbase is split after the transfer was completed on Saturday. Some of us are misty-eyed at the thought of a hero riding off in to the sunset, but the rest of us are feeling short-changed because an adored player jumped ship for money . To outsiders, seeing fans like myself condemn Kanté’s decision to move to Chelsea may look like a common case of transfer window sour grapes. After all, despite Leicester’s heroic performance last term, we are still a much smaller club than Chelsea. That being said, I can assure you, no matter what it looks like, that resentment towards this transfer is down to anything but bitterness. When Leicester City won the Premier League last season, it was a truly magical time, a magnificent tale of a band of brothers defeating odds of 5,000/1 to lift English football’s most sought after prize. So, given that the club has realised this remarkable fairytale, qualified for Champion’s League football, and can boast a team spirit that sides the world over envy, why would anyone want to leave? The record will always show that England’s best team have sold their best player to England’s 10th best team. No matter what prestige Chelsea carry, they will not be playing in Europe next season. No matter what the pundits say, there is no tangible evidence that Chelsea are a better side than Leicester City. And on the back of testimonies from virtually every single person involved with the Foxes, Leicester’s squad has a bond to die for. So, the only logical reason for N’Golo Kanté to have moved from Filbert Way to Stamford Bridge is money - £150,000 a week - funds that City simply cannot compete with. So, to observers who think this is to do with bitterness, tell me why exactly Leicester fans should be content with Kanté’s motives. Let’s flash forward a year to the end of the 2016-17 season, Leicester have finished 8th in the league, failed to win either domestic cup and after an admirable fight in Europe have been knocked out of the Champion’s League’s Last 16 stage. Regardless of their achievements paling in to comparison with the season preceding it, Kanté, Mahrez, Vardy and co have had another stellar season. With those performances, the big clubs come swooping again, the Real Madrids, the PSGs and the Manchester Uniteds of this world offer in excess of £30m and Leicester’s star turns feel their future is elsewhere, and leave the club with heavy hearts. Those are the admirable circumstances that Leicester fans would accept their star players departing, not on the back of fallacious myths about players being better able to win trophies somewhere other than the current champions of England. As of right now, the club has built something special, a core of footballers bound by integrity and determination who are embarrassing the bank-rolled big boys, qualities Kanté seemingly doesn’t possess. The 2015-16 season was just the start of this story, Leicester find themselves in Europe, and as defending champions of England with unbound potential. It is clear, N’Golo Kanté did not back himself to succeed next season and snapped at the chance of a big pay day while he was on the crest of a wave. Whilst, I, and every single Leicester fan will be grateful to the class of 2015-16 for their heroic efforts in winning the unlikeliest title in sports history, it is important to remember that the club owes nothing to the Foxes’ triple entente. N’Golo Kanté, Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy, much like the vast majority of City’s current crop were rejects plucked from obscurity and given the world by an unfashionable East Midlands outfit who conquered it. Anyone with a shred of integrity would surmise that these players are owed nothing from Leicester City, but in contrast, owed the club one more season themselves. N’Golo Kanté has proven himself to be spineless, and unworthy of any respect from the Foxes faithful. Of course, there is no denying his immense ability and his part in last season’s triumph, if you trawled through my Twitter feed, you would find no end of gushing praise for him, but now, he will be remembered as the man who abandoned the most exciting prospect in football for more money than he could ever spend. And the same will be true of Riyad Mahrez, if rumours of him leaving the King Power Stadium are accurate. So N’Golo Kanté, thank you for the memories, but good riddance - this squad cannot carry any avaricious snakes. You would have gone down as a legend at Leicester City, unarguably as one of the greatest in the 132 years of the club’s existence, but you have bottled it. But as your own quote details, you were “so happy to have signed for one of the biggest clubs in Europe” on Saturday, instead. Well, here’s a rude awakening for you, N’Golo. Chelsea are not in Europe - and now, neither are you.
Strikes me as a player who is not confident enough in his own ability to repeat last seasons form and so has jumped while the chance was there. At his age he could have given you another year (probably with an improved contract) and would still get the chance of a move next year if his form kept up and things went tits up for the team/club. Ronaldo and Suarez both did it, they were told "give us another year and if the big boys still want you, you can go", they had faith in their ability.
