When Leicester win the league, they will just triple his wages. Ranieri will augment that team next season. Will be interesting to see if they can make top 3 again.

For a player who turned 25 and has the biggest contract of his life around the corner that may not be enough.

Let's face it-

United are well stocked on them.
Probably doesn't fit Pep's style
Not rumoured to be on Conte's list

The rest of the teams we can match financially.

There is a window of opportunity now if Wenger is cuthtroat enough

I suspect that the manager is not the only one with a say on transfers at Stamford Bridge, Kante would fit the Chelsea profile in a lot of ways and they need to spend big

When is his contract up?

Will end up at Chelsea.

Yeah I'd put money on him heading to Chelsea before us.

He's 25 now; I doubt he'll go from a CL side to a non-CL side this summer. We have a massive advantage over both United and Chelsea if we want him.

Another player who shares Coquelin's weaknesses, good player but not for us.

He’s amazing, should do everything we can to sign him. Will win Chelsea the league if they get him.

I am all for him. His energy is brilliant and he can play a number of roles.

He's better than Coquelin FFS.

Swap Coquelin for Kante and you think Leicester win the league?

No way.

Swap Kante for Coquelin and you think Arsenal win the league?

Is he really -that- much better than Coquelin? I think it may look that way because Leicester have a well-functioning system, unlike ours which can frequently break down. His best attribute seems to be his defensive tenacity, and our Coq can do that.

He's more Elneny than Coquelin in his style.

Gunner89 wrote:

He's better than Coquelin FFS.

Swap Coquelin for Kante and you think Leicester win the league?

No way.

no because coq missed a lot more premier league games than kante. other than that there isn't much difference and neither are the difference between winning and not winning the title anyway. look at mahrez and vardy for that.

Gunner89 wrote:

He's better than Coquelin FFS.

Swap Coquelin for Kante and you think Leicester win the league?

No way.

#Bad logic > No logic.

Gunner89 wrote:

He's better than Coquelin FFS.

Swap Coquelin for Kante and you think Leicester win the league?

No way.

Coombs wrote:

Swap Kante for Coquelin and you think Arsenal win the league?

Swap Raneiri for Wenger and you think Leicester win the league?

Swap Wenger for Ranieri and you think Arsenal win the league?

The point is, who gives a fuck what would happen in other teams if they had our players, or even our manager. All that matters is what happens with Arsenal. It's a weird angle to come from. Put Kante in our midfield and I'd say it gives us another option, but is mostly a sidegrade. I'm looking for a clear upgrade to what we have. If not, sure. Buy Kante. But I'm not going to be over the moon about it unless he goes up a level.

Tossing Arteta and Flamini and replacing them with Kante would not be a sidegrade. That makes us better immediately out biggest problem this year was the time wasted on Flamini and Ramsey in central midfield.