{"id":14081,"date":"2024-07-20T13:36:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T08:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=458133"},"modified":"2024-07-20T13:36:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T08:06:21","slug":"no-intention-to-sell-ngolo-kante-al-ittihad-rejects-west-hams-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/no-intention-to-sell-ngolo-kante-al-ittihad-rejects-west-hams-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"No intention to sell N\u2019Golo Kante: Al Ittihad rejects West Ham\u2019s offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Ittihad has reportedly made it clear that N\u2019Golo Kante is not for sale this summer, despite interest from West Ham United. The Saudi club rejected West Ham\u2019s verbal offer of around \u00a315 million on July 18.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udfe1\u26ab\ufe0f Al Ittihad stance on N'Golo Kant\u00e9 remains very clear as revealed yesterday: no intention to sell Kant\u00e9 this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Laurent Blanc and club board are planning with Kant\u00e9 as key part of the project, despite West Ham approach. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vnJ7sploQU\">pic.twitter.com\/vnJ7sploQU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1814569179774681294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>West Ham remains keen on the 33-year-old midfielder, but Al Ittihad values Kante highly and would only consider offers above \u00a325 million. The club and the Saudi Pro League view Kante as a key figure for both the immediate and long term.<\/p>\n<p>Kante is happy at Al Ittihad and will join their training camp for the new season after a break following Euro 2024. He joined Al Ittihad from Chelsea last summer, ending a seven-year spell at Stamford Bridge, and scored four goals in 46 appearances in the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n<p>Kante also impressed for France at this summer\u2019s European Championship, starting all six of their games and helping them reach the semi-finals, where they lost to Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Ittihad has reportedly made it clear that N\u2019Golo Kante is not for sale this summer, despite interest from West\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":35946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2535,2447],"class_list":["post-14081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-ngolo-kante","tag-west-ham"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}