Chelsea midfielder N’Golo Kante has dropped the biggest hint yet that he won’t follow Jorginho’s footsteps in trying to manufacture a Blues transfer exit this summer. To hear the 31-year-old Premier League star drop the biggest hint yet that he will be staying for 2022/23 amid having one year left to run on his deal after this season will come as music to the ears of Chelsea manager Tuchel.
N’golo Kante said: “The only thing is sure that I have one more year and the only thing is to finish this season. I’ll think about it in the right time.”
This statement has validated Tuchel’s worries about losing his reliable players in the summer amid Rudiger’s reported decision to depart for Real Madrid.
Thomas Tuchel said: “Nobody wants that with big players and important players nowaday. It’s a wish as a coach that we solve this in the summer in any way, that we solve it and it’s clear where the journey is and what the decision is. Yes, this is the wish. [If not] we have the same talks that we have had about Toni and Andreas. You just swap the names. We would talk about it through winter and then comes January, and then agents are talking to this club and the brother another. It would be nice if we can avoid it but at the moment it’s difficult [because of the sanctions]. But this should be the target for all of us.”
Unfortunately, with no new deal on the table and with Kante currently on his way to becoming a free agent by June 2023, we are sure to hear his agent talk a lot more in the forthcoming months with Paris Saint-Germain a known long-term admirer of the Les Bleus international. But in the short-term, with this fresh Kante admission regarding his immediate future, it’s a win-win situation it seems for both Tuchel and Boehly who now have one less thing to worry about.
