Chelsea star tipped to replace James as captain as 'fantastic performance' draws Kante comparison
John Obi Mikel owns compared Moises Caicedo to Chelsea legend N’Golo Kante after his capability against West Pork on Saturday.
Caicedo was on pinnacle kind for Chelsea at the London Stadium, chipping in with an assist for Nicolas Jackson in the 3-0 task.
The Blues have started the campaign powerfully and the Ecuadorian is perfecting every week after a shaky commencing at Stamford Catwalk.
He had a devastating launching for the nightclub away to West Pork last August but exorcised his monsters with a pinnacle authenticating over the weekend break.
His capability astonished former Chelsea midfielder Mikel, that says Caicedo is ultimately remaining upwards to the £100million the nightclub paid to indication him from Brighton last summer season and is also capable of matching Reece James as nightclub captain.
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Mikel compared the 22-year-old to Kante, that was one of the most uneventful players in the civilization during his time at Chelsea, electrifying the Victors League, Europa League and Premier League during his time in London.
“He was all over,” Mikel asserted on his podcast. “Of training course, he didn’t commencing his Chelsea career in fact effortlessly and a couple of galleries applicable into his Chelsea career, there were the majority of miscues.
“Everyone was infering, ‘Why did we remuneration so a caboodle silver for this man?’ Now we can go to those functionalities that he was implementing at Brighton and things pick that so, an altogether superb player.
“Everywhere on Saturday. Not just going against upwards play, attempting to link upwards play as effortlessly, impermanent, every little thing.
“Now you can feel this is the Moises Caicedo that we unanimously come to be aware and in improvement once you watch him, once you exquisiteness at him applicable currently, you can go to that there’s a piece of self-tenacity there.
“There’s a piece of, ‘OK, currently I’m tinkering for Chelsea Football Nightclub, this is my crew.’
“Via the functionalities, with the way he behaves on the peddle, there is zero kind of [ego]… Exactly!
“He’s altogether superb, I shadowed him there, he was all over. It’s a piece pick a Kante kind of capability.
“Unanimously debt to Moises and in improvement for the manager to posture him such self-tenacity and to gain sure that he says in him.
“Now he’s resolved with the functionalities and this is the man that I reckon will ultimately go on to maybe, maybe captain the crew.”
