The Mahrez Saga

[Blaarev]

This twat with the same **** of an agent as Mahrez:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2012/jan/27/carlos-tevez-manchester-city-strike

 

[Brown Nose]

This twat with the same **** of an agent as Mahrez:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2012/jan/27/carlos-tevez-manchester-city-strike

Joorabchian had an informal working relationship with Man City a few years back when they were owned by the Thai nutjob Shinawatra.

 

[Blaarev]

Talks with his ‘’representatives’’ to start according to Mercury.

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/...s/riyad-mahrezs-leicester-city-future-1170438

 

[David Gwilliam]

The Mahrez saga led me to think of Nicky Adams.

I used to say about Nicky Adams that he had everything except ability. This was not a cheap jibe but a comment born of respect. He always gave 100% for the team and he was always willing to stick his head among flying boots. It was no surprise to read that he was a boxing fan. . Sadly he never had the skill to be a Championship player and was rightly let go. He now plays for Carlisle

There will be many like Nicky Adams in the lower leagues. They would no doubt have loved to have Mahrez ability and to play in the Premier League - not to mention being on Mahrez money. A man like Nicky Adams would never miss training or let down his team mates. Mahrez may be a great player but men like Nicky Adams are more deserving of respect.

 

[Mike - True Blue Tinter]

Can anyone think of another example of a player believing that he’s outgrown a club and then going on strike?

Feels like this could only happen to us.

Sterling, Berbatov and Best, and of course Couthino.

 

[harrowfox]

http://www.football365.com/news/top...sterling-berbatov-schneiderlin-tevez-van-dijk

Top 10 from Football 365 including Ulloa. Needs updating now.

 

[Cambridge_fox]

He’s pissed me right off. After playing shit all last season (yes, I haven’t forgotten that), he’s now gone awol. **** that. Grow up and do the job you’re paid to do.

 

[give_us_a_wave]

What the **** is there to "discuss"? You're contracted to do a job of work you odious little shite. ****ing get on with it or go & sit in the reserve dugout til May. There's no way you can leave before the Summer now & you do realise you're making yourself look like a **** in front of anybody who might want to buy you then don't you? What a massive ****ing bellend. Get the **** out of my club you mardy little child.

I want to get back to being a proper City fan & enjoy watching us piss away the money we get for you on rubbish players in July.

 

[Blue Maniac]

http://www.football365.com/news/top...sterling-berbatov-schneiderlin-tevez-van-dijk

Top 10 from Football 365 including Ulloa. Needs updating now.

“People say we became champions, but so what? If you were to change all the managers in the league for cats, at the end of the season there will still be one champion and three will get relegated. Does that mean the cat who is champion is fantastic?”

Almost Cantona-level gibberish from PVH.

 

[Ike O'Noclassed]

“People say we became champions, but so what? If you were to change all the managers in the league for cats, at the end of the season there will still be one champion and three will get relegated. Does that mean the cat who is champion is fantastic?”

Almost Cantona-level gibberish from PVH.

On the other hand, 17 clubs with cats as managers avoided relegation. I think that's pretty overwhelming evidence that the strategy works.

 

[Miles Away]

“People say we became champions, but so what? If you were to change all the managers in the league for cats, at the end of the season there will still be one champion and three will get relegated. Does that mean the cat who is champion is fantastic?”

Almost Cantona-level gibberish from PVH.

That’s brilliant

 

[Rock Fox]

Yawn. It'd be nice if ex-player pundit types stopped discussing all this. Clearly they're all speaking from a position of putting themselves in Mahrez' shoes. Understandable I guess but hardly helpful. Add in the fact that most of them are clearly as thick as shit & nothing useful comes from it. The facts are actually really, really simple:

LCFC & Puel have (had?) a strategic plan for the 2nd half of the season regarding squad rotation, prioritisation of League & Cup, followed by a Summer transfer window for the manager to recruit/get rid & build his own squad. Sensible stuff.
This plan included a Mr R.Mahrez (an LCFC employee under contract) in an important role. Mr Mahrez was seemingly fine with all this...until a deliberately hostile bid from a rival firm 48 hours before the closure of the one & only recruitment window allowed until Summer. Suddenly Mr Mahrez is NOT fine with all this.
The rival firm were, quite rightly, told to stop taking the piss & stick their derisory offer up their ****ing arse.
This is the bit ex-player pundits don't get. Because the reason they're pundits is that any **** can sit on the telly or radio & spout complete bollocks in this saturated media age & get a nice wedge for it. None of them are managers or directors of clubs because they don't have the talent or intellect for it. If they did they'd maybe understand why LCFC are completely in the right over all of this. He's OUR player, under contract to US. **** all else matters.

As for Mr. Mahrez himself...well, get back to work you ****.

Great player or not you're not bigger than my club. Thanks very much for being so brilliant & helping to fulfill a dream I never thought possible. But stop believing your own hype & get on with the job you're handsomely paid to do. If you're depressed I suggest you come & live my life for a week to gain some much needed perspective. I'm having a medical this week...but it's not to decide if I get a 200k a week job I can ****ing assure you. We all know you'll be off in July. That's only a few months away. You're 26. Get a ****ing grip.

I'm not a cruel man by any means...but there is a small part of me that now hopes that you get your dream move in the Summer & then get a career ending injury on your debut.

That's how ****ing sick of all this shit I am.

Agree - except the career ending injury bit - but goes to a club where there are real superstar egomaniacs but can't perform in the way he did for Leicester. He fades from star performer to 'impact substitute' or 'early round league cup games '. He goes on to throw strops with different managers of various clubs and then aged 29, playing for Stalybridge Celtic, he tries to get in the Jamie Vardy academy and get a second chance to play league football.

 

[fitz]

“People say we became champions, but so what? If you were to change all the managers in the league for cats, at the end of the season there will still be one champion and three will get relegated. Does that mean the cat who is champion is fantastic?”

Almost Cantona-level gibberish from PVH.

We've had a few managers where a cat may not have done much worse.

 

[Graz]

I feel sorry for Claude Puel in this.

He's been doing a good job since he came in, making changes to our playing style and transitioning to a different starting line-up from our title winning season, which had still been pretty set in its ways until he came in, while getting us climbing up the table and challenging for a top 7 place.

Now our season is at risk of being derailed by this Mahrez saga, through absolutely no fault of Puel's.

 

[Blaarev]

We've had a few managers where a cat may not have done much worse.

At least it wouldn’t be a problem for a cat to do better than the mad dog we had as a manager

 

[Redditch Fox]

I feel sorry for Claude Puel in this.

He's been doing a good job since he came in, making changes to our playing style and transitioning to a different starting line-up from our title winning season, which had still been pretty set in its ways until he came in, while getting us climbing up the table and challenging for a top 7 place.

Now our season is at risk of being derailed by this Mahrez saga, through absolutely no fault of Puel's.

That's why it would have been best to have got rid of Mahrez before this transfer window. The owners played it right with Manchester City but are stuck with a player who is big time trouble. He has already put in a no-show season, played silly games in the summer transfer window and only showed his best this season in the run up to the January window.

I would rather he is kept away from the King Power for the rest of the season to reduce the damage that he could do to the rest of the squad. He should still fetch a decent price in the summer.

 

[Blaarev]

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...n-riyad-mahrez-and-his-leicester-city-impasse

 

[Jeff]

 

[SJN-Fox]

renumerated !!!

 

[give_us_a_wave]

Agree - except the career ending injury bit - but goes to a club where there are real superstar egomaniacs but can't perform in the way he did for Leicester. He fades from star performer to 'impact substitute' or 'early round league cup games '. He goes on to throw strops with different managers of various clubs and then aged 29, playing for Stalybridge Celtic, he tries to get in the Jamie Vardy academy and get a second chance to play league football.

Yep. That's actually much better. Slow painful death rather than a sudden ending would ultimately be much more satisfying.