The Saudi club Al-Nasr seeks to contract with the French international, N'Golo Kante, the midfield player of Chelsea, and to include him in the team during the upcoming summer transfer period, after reports indicated that his agreement with Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo was close to completion.
Kante has a contract with the “Blues”, which expires on June 30, 2023, which allows the player to negotiate with any team who wishes to benefit from his services next January, without referring to the “London” club management.
Saudi victory wants Kante
And the French website "Footmercato" (footmercato) confirmed that Kante is a strong candidate to move to Al-Nasr Club, whose name has been reverberating on a global scale, recently.
And the French website report stated: “In addition to Cristiano Ronaldo, for whom things are going well, Al-Nasr Club is very interested in the position of Kante, who will be free at the end of the current season (2022-2023) with Chelsea.”
Al-Nasr wants to sign Kante.
The player is not against playing in Saudi Arabia.
Barcelona want to sign him as well as he's free but the financial restrictions don't favor the deal because of his wages.
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And the site quoted a source in the Al-Alamy board of directors as saying that the club is interested in contracting with the player, who does not oppose his departure to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and wants to exploit the possibility of including him in a free transfer deal.
Al-Nasr is preparing to announce the inclusion of Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo in the next few days, with the winter transfer window opening in January 2023, according to many European media.
For this reason, “Al-Nasr” entered a race against time in order to make room for Ronaldo’s registration in his list, as well as if he succeeded in including Kante, especially since he includes eight foreign players in his ranks, including Cameroonian Vincent Abu Bakr and Spaniard Alvaro Gonzalez.
The internal regulations in the Saudi competitions allow each team to register 7 foreign players, which means that victory is required to get rid of two to three players for Cristiano, and after him Kante.
Kante has been absent from the stadiums since his injury with Chelsea on August 14, which prevented him from participating in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
N'Golo Kante is currently out due to injury (Reuters)
Doubts surround the future of the 31-year-old French player with Chelsea, especially in light of this injury that kept him out for a long time.
According to "Photo Mercato", FC Barcelona - currently leading the Spanish League - is one of the most prominent interested in contracting with Kante, but the difficult financial situation is not in his favour.
Kante joined Chelsea in July 2016 from Leicester City, and since that time the French international has played 262 matches for the "Blues", scoring 13 goals and providing his teammates with 15 assists.
Kante was crowned with Chelsea with six championships;
It is: the English Premier League for football once, as well as the European Champions League, the European Super Cup, the Club World Cup, the European League, and the FA Cup.