Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has hinted of major interest in Leicester City midfielder N'Golo Kante.

Wenger, who has already signed Switzerland midfielder Granit Xhaka this summer in a £30m deal, believes Kante will leave the Premier League champions.

“It is very difficult to talk about that at the moment," he said. “Kante is on the list of many clubs. It is an area where we have many players.

“We will see what happens in the next two or three weeks. It looks like Leicester have bought a player from Nice [Nampalys Mendy] with similar qualities to Kante, so whether they envisage to lose him or not I don't know.

“If you ask 100 people in the street if they want Kante to play [for France] you will get 100 saying yes. He has done the job in one or two games and I am not surprised.

“I said two months ago this boy will play the whole European Championship. We know him well from Leicester now and I am not surprised that he is starting. He has been one of the revelations of the French team."