{"id":25427,"date":"2026-02-04T04:01:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/fenerbahce-blame-al-ittihad-for-ngolo-kante-move-collapsing\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T04:01:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:01:58","slug":"fenerbahce-blame-al-ittihad-for-ngolo-kante-move-collapsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/fenerbahce-blame-al-ittihad-for-ngolo-kante-move-collapsing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenerbahce blame Al-Ittihad for N&#8217;Golo Kante move collapsing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fenerbahce said they asked for an extension to complete the deal and held talks with Fifa as &#8220;all steps were taken to resolve the issue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Despite this, the opposing club has not completed the transactions without providing any justification to us,&#8221; added Fenerbahce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As a result of these developments, the transfer process unfortunately could not be finalised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport has asked Al-Ittihad for a response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">France striker Karim Benzema left Al-Ittihad <a href=\"https:\/\/alhilal.com\/en\/news\/french-star-karim-benzema-joins-al-hilal\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">to join to rival Saudi Pro League side Al-Hilal<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> on Tuesday and it appeared En-Nesyri could have been his replacement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kante, 34, joined Al-Ittihad from Chelsea in 2023 having won the Champions League, Premier League, Europa League and FA Cup with the Blues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also helped Leicester City win the Premier League in the 2015-16 season.   <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ce8grzn4p4ro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fenerbahce said they asked for an extension to complete the deal and held talks with Fifa as &#8220;all steps were taken to resolve the issue&#8221;. &#8220;Despite this, the opposing club has not completed the transactions without providing any justification to us,&#8221; added Fenerbahce. &#8220;As a result of these developments, the transfer process unfortunately could not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25429,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25427\/revisions\/25429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}