Loophole is a no-go for N’Golo

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in 2016. French investigative website Mediapart claims 20 per cent of his £6m salary was for image rights.

A company was set up in Jersey before the transfer with the aim of paying half Kante’s image rights to the offshore company to avoid tax. But the midfielder personally decided against using the scheme.

The leaked email to Chelsea in May 2017 claimed: “N’Golo is increasingly concerned that the set-up proposed to him could be questioned by the tax authorities. N’Golo decided that he did not want to take any risks.”

Football Leaks also claimed the Blues risk a transfer ban for signing Bertrand Traore (above) when he was underage in 2011. The Burkino Faso forward was sold to Lyon for £8.8m last year.