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N'GOLO KANTE should miss the start of the season after suffering a setback due to a knee injury.
The midfielder returned home after Chelsea's pre-season tour and was re-educated on his knee at the club's training base in Cobham.
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Less than three weeks into the season, the new director, Frank Lampard, suffers.
The Blues head coach had wanted to play Kante in one of his team's two friendlies in Japan, but he will not get any more action from his tour.
Before the loss to Kawasaki Frontale on Friday, he was working well with his teammates but was not fully involved in the training.
The winner of the 28-year-old French World Cup suffered a knee injury at the end of last season helping the club win the Europa League.
After taking the plane to Asia, Lampard said he hoped Kante would be fit for the start of the season.
But he's now sweating on one of his key players during the August 11th opening match against Manchester United.
Chelsea has agreed to send his former Under-21 midfielder, Lewis Baker, to the German club Fortuna Dusseldorf.
This is Baker's seventh credit move in the past five years and he has the option of making it permanent if the 24-year-old meets with great success in Germany.
Baker played as a substitute in Frank Lampard's first friendly match – a 1-1 draw against the Bohemians in Dublin – but failed to qualify for his pre-season trip to Japan.
Several clubs in the Championship have shown interest – including Reading, where he was loaned last season – but Baker, once considered by Jose Mourinho as Chelsea's best young talent, jumped on the occasion of a new start in Germany .
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