Izuchukwu OkosiSaudi Arabian side Al Ittihad late Tuesday evening confirmed the signing of Chelsea midfielder N’Golo Kanté on a €100m deal until 2027.
Kanté will earn an eye watering sum of €25m salary per season which includes commercial deals & image rights.
The transfer fee, it has disclosed by the club is the total fixed package and the Mali-born France international will be unveiled in July.
Al Ittihad had secured the services of Karim Benzema from Real Madrid as the Saudi Arabian football hurricane continues.
Meanwhile, France international Christopher Nkunku has signed a long-term contract with Chelsea after the Premier League side agreed a transfer fee with Bundesliga team RB Leipzig.
Chelsea will hope Christopher Nkunku will arrive with goals after their recent attacking signings have gone down like lead balloons.
The Blues have now officially confirmed the Frenchman’s arrival in a £53million deal from RB Leipzig.
Nkunku did his medical under Thomas Tuchel in the summer (of 2022) and signed a pre-agreement with Chelsea under Graham Potter in January 2023 but only joins to play under Mauricio Pochettino this summer.
The uncertainty and transfer merry-go-round highlights a turbulent start for the West London side under new owner Todd Boehly.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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