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He Al Ittihad Club of Saudi Arabiathe place where Karim Benzema lives, announced this Wednesday the signing of the French international midfielder N’Golo Kanté, which is why he will be with his compatriot in the Jeddah team, this after the end of his contract with Chelsea.
With the team that makes life in the English Premier League, the midfielder has played 269 games over the past seven seasons, from 2017 to 2023this after being champion with Leicester, a team that was a revelation a year before his transfer to the London team.
The footballer, 32 years old and whom an injury has limited to just nine games in the last year, eight of them as a starter, will now start a new adventure in the emerging and millionaire Saudi football, with a salary of 25 million euros a year and a contract until 2027as published by Fabrizio Romano, a journalist specialized in transfers, on his social networks.
Al Ittihad, which He made the signing public on his official ‘twitter’ accountAlthough it must be taken into account, it has not revealed the amounts or the duration of the agreement so far.
Kante will wear the number ‘7’, according to the photos published by his new clubwhich will be the fifth in the midfielder’s career, after the US Boulougne and French Caen, in 2011-12 and 2012-13, the first, and in 2013-14, the second; the leicesterwith which he was proclaimed champion of the Premier League in 2015-16 and from which he was transferred in the summer of 2016, for 35 million euros, to Chelsea, where he has played ever since.
center midfielder He has been world champion in 2018 with the French teamwith whom he has disputed 53 international matches, with two goals, since his debut on March 25, 2016now N’golo will take his soccer to a new territory where he is expected to be one of the main figures, not only of his team, but of the tournament.
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