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'Master' Kante is Chelsea's centrepiece - Iniesta admits he'd love to play with France star

The Spanish great has heaped praise in the World Cup-winning Frenchman and hailed him as the perfect midfield partner

Barcelona legend Andres Iniesta has paid tribute to Chelsea grafter N'Golo Kante - and said he would have loved to have played with him.

Iniesta, 34, is playing out the twilight of his glorious career with Japanese club Vissel Kobe and doesn't expect to get the opportunity to line up with the French World Cup-winner.

But he has praised the famously modest and selfless midfielder as the ideal engine-room sidekick.

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"He's a player I'd like to have had in my team for many years," he told RMC Sport.