N’Golo Kante’s agent threatened with gun during row over Chelsea transfer commission

Mediapart, the French investigative news site has revealed an armed thug threatened to kill N’Golo Kante’s agent during an argument about the star’s £32million transfer to Chelsea. ‘The colossal sums of money generated by N’Golo Kanté,’ prompted brothers Rachid and Houari Saadna to threaten Kante’s agent Abdelkarim Douis with death, the site reported on Wednesday. Douis had received a £4million cut of the Chelsea fee, which was paid into an account in Jersey, where Kanté had also opened an offshore company. The argument came to a head during a meeting in the Geraniums, the housing estate in the Paris suburb of Rueil-Malmaison where Kanté grew up. ‘His stay in Rueil-Malmaison in March 2017 turned into a nightmare,’ Mediapart reports. ‘N’Golo Kanté was surrounded by a number of men. Among them two brothers from Nanterre [another Paris suburb] who threatened to kill the player’s agent if he did not sack him.’ In a recording obtained by Mediapart, Rachid Saadna is heard saying his brother Houari might well be armed and ready to shoot. In turn, Houari Saadna is on tape arguing: ‘My brother [Rachid] got done over, he was robbed, wronged... I give you a choice. You work with a lawyer and you stop working with the other one [Karim Douis]. ‘Listen, I’m not joking, either you settle the issue or Karim Douis: I’ll take him down, full stop.’ Kanté met up with Mediapart on November 18 and confirmed having a ‘discussion’ with the Saadna brothers at the Geraniums in March 2017. Saying he was not personally threatened with a gun, Kanté added: ‘I find your question tendentious. I am a football professional, I do not live in a world of thugs.’ He said he had excellent relations with his agent, Abdelkarim Douis, but was trying to split up with Nouari Khiari, his image rights agent. Source- The Mirror

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