N'Golo Kante. Midfielder, 31 years old

WILL BE A FREE AGENT IN 2023

N'Golo Kanté, Barça's last alternative for 2022-2023

Published:28/10/2022 - 19:59h

Updated:28/10/2022 - 23:35h

FC Barcelona has begun an exhaustive search to strengthen the position of midfielder, in January or for the 2022-2023 season. N'Golo Kanté would be an alternative for the sports management

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In the FC Barcelona have like priority reinforce the position of pivote the sooner possible. The forecast of the Barcelona, in principle, was to achieve to a player that could cover said position in the market of wintry signings, but after the elimination in the phase of groups of the Champions League the panorama has changed drastically and is not 'safe' that they can go out to achieve footballers.

The Barça has to give exit to a lot of footballers before thinking in reinforcing again his staff, put to day of today the mass salarial is excessively high and the club ingresará much less to the not contesting the League of Champions, put in the budget had foreseen to arrive until the quarter-finals of the tournament. It is a situation that forces to replantearse a lot of things and go back to bet by the free agents of face to the summer of 2023.

It was something that had advanced Mateu Alemany does some weeks, when it aimed that "increasingly we have to centre us in the market of players that remain free". Like this then , already they are varied the names that have been related in the last days. The last have been Jorginho and N'Golo Kanté, players of Chelsea that have agreement until 30 June 2023 and that still have not arrived to agreements to extend his stay in the Stamford Bridge.

The French midfield player, of agreement to a recent information of 'Relief', is an alternative that likes a lot in the Barcelona sportive direction. In fact, it would be between the 'preferred' to reinforce the centre of the field of face to the next season. It is a player that always has colado between the best of the European continent and that would fit without problem in the Barça of Xavi Hernández.

The preference in N'Golo Kanté comes very related with the rumours that the Barça has a lot of doubts regarding the incorporation of Rubén Neves, the one who up to now one of the mediocentros more gone on down the Barcelona group. As it has destapado, there is not consensus inside the club by his traspaso, that would elevate until the 25 million euros because has agreement to the end of the season 2023-2024.

Kanté, 'KO' until after the World-wide

In case that, in question, the Barça was attentive to the situation of N'Golo Kanté, one of the most important points is that the champion of the World in 2018 is in the infirmary from the past 14 August, when it fell lesionado in the tie of Chelsea and Tottenham (2-2). In this moment, the club 'blue' informed that it suffered an injury of the isquiotibiales. It does some weeks aimed that it would be out of action by four months after going through the operating theatre. It will lose the World-wide of Qatar with France and will remain to expect to see how returns after his 'stop'.

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