Chelsea's N'Golo Kante to wear No.7 shirt next season following £32m transfer

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Vaishali Bhardwaj25 July 2016

New Chelsea midfielder N'Golo Kante will wear the vacant No.7 shirt at the club next season, the Blues have confirmed.

Chelsea signed Kante on a five-year deal from Premier League champions Leicester City in a deal believed to be worth about £32million in mid-July although the France international has not yet joined up with his new teammates after being given an extended break for his exploits with Les Bleus at Euro 2016.

Ahead of his arrival at Chelsea's pre-season camp in the US later this week, Chelsea have announced that Kante - who wore the No.14 shirt at Leicester - will wear the No.7 jersey next season and, in doing so, take up Ramires' previous shirt number.

The Brazilian wore the No.7 Chelsea jersey for six seasons before vacating it following his departure from the club in January.

Kante will now wear the shirt, and follow in the footsteps of the likes of Didier Deschamps - who manages him in the France national team team - Adrian Mutu and Andriy Shevchenko.

Chelsea are currently in the US where they will take on fellow Premier League side Liverpool in a pre-season friendly early on Thursday morning.

The Blues then play two further friendlies in the US against Real Madrid and AC Milan and then end off their pre-season off with a game against Werder Bremen on 7 August.

Chelsea 2016/17 pre-season fixtures

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