10 players whose transfer fee didn't match their talents

#10 N’Golo Kante - £5.6m (Caen to Leicester City, 2015)

The great N'Golo Kante cost Leicester City just £5.6m in 2015

Leicester City’s famous Premier League title winning side of 2015-16 was filled with players bought for bargain fees, but while Jamie Vardy, Riyad Mahrez and Kasper Schmeichel could all be considered for this list of players whose fees didn’t match up with their talent, the man in that side who fits that criteria the best is undoubtedly N’Golo Kante.

The French midfielder was largely an unknown when the Foxes inked him from Caen – who had only gained promotion into France’s Ligue 1 in 2013-14 – for a fee of just £5.6m, and in all honesty, at the time nobody could’ve known how much of a bargain that figure represented.

Kante went on to star for Leicester in their famous title triumph, missing just a single league game throughout the campaign. Along the way he registered 175 tackles – 31 more than any other player – and 157 interceptions, again more than any other player in the competition.

The summer of 2016 saw him move to Chelsea – for a fee of £32m, much more befitting of his incredible talents – and he proved to be a massive hit at Stamford Bridge too, helping the Blues to win a Premier League title and becoming the first player since Eric Cantona - another Frenchman whose cheap transfer fee didn’t match his talents – to win back-to-back top flight titles with different clubs.