Few players - if any - have made a bigger immediate impact in the Premier League than N’Golo Kante.The indefatigable French midfielder played a key role in helping Leicester City achieve the unthinkable last season before securing a £32 million move to Chelsea.Chelsea, remember, finished the 2015-16 campaign in 10th position. But with Kante in their ranks, the Blues are currently on course to win the Premier League title.The 26-year-old has been exceptional again this season and thoroughly deserves his nomination for the PFA’s Premier League Player of the Year award.Kante is currently the favourite to win the prestigious individual accolade ahead of Eden Hazard, who told reporters this weekend that he’ll invite his teammate on stage if he picks up the highest number of votes instead.

Kante is humble and modest

Kante, you suspect, would be extremely reluctant to join Hazard on stage if the Belgian wins the award.

The France international comes across as humble, modest and even a little shy. He’s a player who does all of his talking out on the pitch and shuns the limelight as much as possible.

Unlike many Premier League stars, Kante doesn’t drive to training in a flash car costing six figures. He drives a Mini.

Why Kante wasn't sure he needed a car

However, the Guardian’s Daniel Taylor has revealed an amusing story, told by one of Kante’s ex-Leicester teammates, about why the midfielder was reluctant to even purchase a car when he arrived at the King Power Stadium.

“With N’Golo Kanté expected to be named the Professional Footballers’ Association’s player of the year on Sunday, perhaps this is an appropriate time to share a little‑known story, passed on by one of his old team‑mates at Leicester City, that fits in neatly with the way the Chelsea midfielder goes about his business,” Taylor wrote in his latest Guardian column (scroll to the bottom).

“A lot is made of the fact Kanté prefers to drive a Mini rather than operating with the fleet of dream machines that other members of his profession consider essential. But it turns out that when Kanté first arrived in Leicester he was not even sure he needed any wheels.

“Kanté, the story goes, reckoned it was possible to run into training every day and had to be persuaded that it wasn’t usually done that way in the Premier League.”

Amazing.

Only N’Golo Kante would need to be told *not* to run to training.

He truly is a one-off and Chelsea are incredibly lucky to have him.