Chelsea legend Wise opens up and urges Blues to keep hold of Kante

Dennis Wise has opened up and revealed the best midfield options to Frank Lampard, and urged Chelsea to keep hold of Ngolo Kante.

Frank Lampard has an array of talent at his disposal  and with that only set to improve in the summer window, he should have a number of midfielders to choose from as he seeks to win that Premier League.

But there has been much debate about the best midfield that Lampard could play with the players at the club right now, as the likes of Mason Mount, Jorginho, Kante, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Ross Barkley and Mateo Kovacic all fighting for those spots.

But former star Wise has opened up and told the boss to keep hold of Kante when the transfer window opens up, with the little Frenchman linked with a move away from the club

But Asked to name Lampard’s first-choice midfield three, Wise said on the Daily Express: “I would say the main person is Kante, for sure, and then you can have a mixture of Kovacic, Barkley or Mount.

“I think it would be out of those four to make up the three which sit in there [in a 4-3-3 formation].

“Mason Mount has done extremely well, and Barkley has gone through a spell of really doing well. It’s difficult to give you the three, but one of them for sure is Kante. I think he is so important to the team to sit in there.

“You’ve also got Loftus-Cheek and young Gilmour so they’re quality players.

“Loftus-Cheek has obviously been out for a while and it would be unfair to all of a sudden try and push him into that category (alongside the main four players). And the young boy Billy Gilmour, just because he’s so young and developing, I think you’ve got to give him time

“I think definitely Kante and then two out of the three that I mentioned – Kovacic, Barkley and Mount. It’s a great problem to have.

“Mount has done extremely well in spells, and so has Barkley and so has Kovacic – it’s very difficult to break them up.”

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