{"id":1817,"date":"2018-07-31T19:05:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T19:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousereport.com\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2018-07-31T19:05:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T19:05:52","slug":"chelsea-raise-kantes-pay-deter-psg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=1817","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Raise Kante\u2019s Pay To Deter PSG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"txt-textContent tinyscrollbar-y jq_ScrollBar initialized scrollbar-visible\">\n<div class=\"viewport jq_AutoHeight\">\n<div class=\"overview\">\n<div class=\"text fontsize_1 jq_Content jq_langdir\">\n<p>French midfielder N\u2019Golo Kante, labelled the \u201cessential element\u201d in the World Cup-winning side by Didier Deschamps, has been offered a new five-year contract by Chelsea, according to British media reports on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The pocket-sized 27-year-old dynamo \u2014 who recovered the ball more often than any other team-mate during the finals in Russia \u2014 will earn \u00a3290,000 ($380,000, 325,000 euros) a week if he signs the new deal, reported The Times and the London Evening Standard.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea, who sacked Antonio Conte as manager despite winning the FA Cup after finishing outside the Champions League spots last season, want to ward off apparent interest from Qatari-owned French champions Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n<p>The new contract would see Kante\u2019s pay almost doubled from his present deal \u2014 \u00a3150,000 a week \u2014 which terminates in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Kante was a pivotal figure in Chelsea\u2019s title-winning campaign in 2016\/17 under Conte after joining from Leicester City for a reported \u00a332 million.<\/p>\n<p>His move followed an equally influential role in The Foxes\u2019 shock league-winning campaign in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are also reported by both newspapers to be prepared to increase Belgian playmaker Eden Hazard\u2019s weekly pay from \u00a3220,000 \u2014 at present he is the highest wage earner \u2014 to \u00a3300,000 in an effort to dissuade him from moving to Spain with Real Madrid showing an interest, although the \u00a3200-million price tag may put them off.<\/p>\n<p>Hazard and fellow Belgian Thibaut Courtois, who is also believed to be subject of a \u00a335.5-million bid from Real Madrid, are due back in training this weekend after their holidays following Belgium\u2019s run to the World Cup semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French midfielder N\u2019Golo Kante, labelled the \u201cessential element\u201d in the World Cup-winning side by Didier Deschamps, has been offered a new five-year contract by Chelsea, according to British media reports on Tuesday. The pocket-sized 27-year-old dynamo \u2014 who recovered the ball more often than any other team-mate during the finals in Russia \u2014 will earn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1373,1395,714],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-chelsea","tag-ngolo-kante","tag-psg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}