Mateo Kovacic eases Todd Boehly's Chelsea transfer worries amid N'Golo Kante setback

Chelsea and Todd Boehly have been spared their Frenkie de Jong blushes as key midfielder Mateo Kovacic deems himself 'ready' to return for the next Premier League game against Leicester amid N'Golo Kante injury fear.

The Blues have started off the campaign with four points from the first nine available. Even before the season started, manager Thomas Tuchel had an injury predicament on his hands. During the tour of the United States, it was clear that the 28-year-old wasn't himself.

He had his knee strapped up before the majority of those pre-season clashes and come the opening Everton game, the Croatian international was only fit enough for the bench. Having racked around only 90 minutes in total during the games across the Atlantic, Tuchel didn't believe his number 8 was fit enough to acquire any minutes, not even from the bench, against Everton, Tottenham and Leeds United respectively with him left out from the entire squad for the latter of the two games.

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"It is the same for Kova, who is injured, unfortunately. He has issues with his knee and always has a little bit of a reaction, so we decided to take a step back and increase treatment time and reduce the stress that comes from training to have no more reaction before we start again," Tuchel said ahead of Everton.

Since these comments, the German will have despaired when he learned the extent of Kante's injury that was suffered in the latter parts of the Tottenham draw. With all the injuries taken into account coupled with how the makeshift midfield fared in the Leeds United humiliation, many Chelsea supporters have since cried out for a new midfielder to sign.

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