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Kante struggled with injury problems last season and Tuchel reckons he could benefit from being on his own individual programme away from the first-team squad for the time being. He said of the Frenchman: “For N’Golo it is maybe not even the worst thing to do.

“We can give him a very individual load. I don’t think he needs a long time to adapt to our game because N’Golo is N’Golo and everybody is aware that he is a key player.”

Kante and fellow midfielder Jorginho are out of contract at the end of next season. And Tuchel doesn’t want a repeat of the situation which saw Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen leave for nothing this summer.

Tuchel said: “Everybody is aware of the situation. Not only with N’Golo but also Jorginho.

“We knew about the situation with Andreas and Toni and we don’t want this. So we are on it to solve it in the best interests of the club.”