N'GOLO KANTE

Among the clubs that most wanted to recruit me were Marseille and Leicester.

I am not a superstar or an ego. I am just the same as I always was: Someone who plays football.

I saw Claude Makelele play in the French national team but before when he played at a club I didn't watch him a lot.

When I arrived at Chelsea, I was at Leicester and I had just won my first title with a club.

I try to speak with my team-mates a lot because I need them everyday.

It's a huge honour to be named player of the year... and I want to thank everyone who voted for me.

The way we stop Mesut Ozil is as a team. He's a good player but only as a team can we stop him.

We have some great players at Chelsea and the most important is the goal to win.

I can't be the same as another player. I am just my way and I will try to improve on that at Chelsea.

Football is like this: after every game you have to do better in the next and the season is the same.

Ask me about my football, and not too much else. I just want to be a player among the players.

I made the right choice to come to Chelsea.

There have been beautiful achievements of winning titles with my team-mates.

There have been a lot of French midfielders at Chelsea, but they did it their way and I do it my way and I hope I can do good things at Chelsea.

No, I don't think I'm especially one of the best players in the league.

When we have to defend, I just try to recover the ball for the team because it's important, but I always try to go forward when we have the ball.

I don't want people paying too much attention about what I am outside of football, what I'm doing, and asking: 'Who is N'Golo?'

I play football and I want to be considered as a footballer.

We have to work together for the good of the team, for trying to win games. That is what we train to do.

At first, I was playing in front of 10 people in a park, then 1,000, then 10,000, then 80,000 and you are on television. I have done it step by step, so it is not a problem. There is no lack of confidence to be on the field, in front of many, many people.

It is good to win awards but the most important is to win together.

I've never been someone who loves a car and when I was young I didn't have the ambition of a car or something like that.

Whatever you did in the past is quickly forgotten.

My English is improving because I learnt it in one year at Leicester, before it was just in school and on holiday, but I have to learn more, I don't understand it all.

When you play cards and find yourself in a tricky situation, you'll use some little strategies - and that is what I have done from time to time. That is why my national teammates have called me a cheat. They are not completely right, as I am not the only person to have done it. But they are not wrong either.