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Quite often with transfers, they do not need to be too complicated. The most obvious moves can line up as the best ones. Look at Chelsea’s deal for Ngolo Kante in 2016. They paid Leicester City a fee of £32 million for Ngolo Kante, who had just won the Premier League with the Foxes. Manchester United and Jose Mourinho even tried to sign him, Kante told Sky Sports – but they were too late, typical of the era under Ed Woodward. He had already spoken to Chelsea and made up his mind. The real steal came from Leicester, who plucked a talented tackler from France’s Ligue 1, and gave him the platform…

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