Kante completes move to Chelsea

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Saturday 16 July 2016 at 3:31pm

The fee is reported to be around £32million for the 25-year-old. Credit: PA

Chelsea have completed the signing of midfielder N'Golo Kante from Leicester.

The France international has passed a medical and put pen to paper on afive-year-contract, the Stamford Bridge club have confirmed.

The fee is reported to be around £32million for the 25-year-old.

Kante, signed for Leicester last summer from Caen for £5.6 million, was arevelation during his maiden season in England as Claudio Ranieri's side became shock Premier League champions.

He was named on the six-man shortlist for the PFA Players' Player of the Year award - won by Foxes team-mate Riyad Mahrez - but his displays also brought him to the attention of Europe's biggest clubs.