The Mahrez Saga

[Jeff]

What we paid for him is very relevant it means that he can sit where he is for the next 2 and a bit years no player is bigger than the club!
If we had paid 40 million for him he would have more leverage with club and would give the Chairman something to think about.
He is behaving like a child he is under contract end of story

If you inherited a house worth £200,000, would you let someone have it for nothing in two years?
After all, you paid nothing for it, so it's obviously not a loss to you.

 

[Brown Nose]

I've got an even better conspiracy theory. Some won't be surprised to hear . . .

Apparently, there were some very odd betting patterns on Mahrez to Man City. Lots of speculation on Sky Sports leading to lots of bets on Sky Bet.

Not the first time that Sky have made a lot of money out of speculation that they've generated themselves.

I'm not saying that Man City weren't interested in Mahrez. but it seems that the two clubs never really got close to an agreement.

 

[Lako42]

I'm guessing from what I've seen written. That doesn't always give a picture of the truth though, does it?

Fairly large lol

 

[big_mac4824]

If you inherited a house worth £200,000, would you let someone have it for nothing in two years?
After all, you paid nothing for it, so it's obviously not a loss to you.

Jeff the point I am trying to make is about Mahrez himself and his rationale, he is refusing to play and I am genuinely trying to work out his bargaining stance, if he cost us a few bob he could use this to engineer his way out of the club, the fact that he did not gives him zero leverage imo.

 

[Jeff]

Jeff the point I am trying to make is about Mahrez himself and his rationale, he is refusing to play and I am genuinely trying to work out his bargaining stance, if he cost us a few bob he could use this to engineer his way out of the club, the fact that he did not gives him zero leverage imo.

How many times...

His value to the club is not the same as how much he cost. How much we paid for him is IRRELEVANT.

 

[camberwell fox]

Jeff the point I am trying to make is about Mahrez himself and his rationale, he is refusing to play and I am genuinely trying to work out his bargaining stance, if he cost us a few bob he could use this to engineer his way out of the club, the fact that he did not gives him zero leverage imo.

Allied to this he has now ****ed up twice in two successive transfer windows.

He may well be bordering on unemployable.

 

[pork pie fox]

What we paid for him is very relevant it means that he can sit where he is for the next 2 and a bit years no player is bigger than the club!
If we had paid 40 million for him he would have more leverage with club and would give the Chairman something to think about.
He is behaving like a child he is under contract end of story

How much did Spurs “pay” for Harry Kane?

 

[David Gwilliam]

Personally I find the whole situation deeply worrying. Nobody at the club seems to know where Mahrez is. Mahrez is a true professional and committed to Leicester. He is not the kind of man to leave team mates in the lurch.

My suspicion is that he has been abducted. If Leicester value Mahrez so highly how much will they pay Danny Murphy for his safe return.

 

[glyn]

I've got an even better conspiracy theory. Some won't be surprised to hear . . .

Apparently, there were some very odd betting patterns on Mahrez to Man City. Lots of speculation on Sky Sports leading to lots of bets on Sky Bet.

Not the first time that Sky have made a lot of money out of speculation that they've generated themselves.

I'm not saying that Man City weren't interested in Mahrez. but it seems that the two clubs never really got close to an agreement.

I do agree there is a very good theory here about how the betting markets can be swayed by the speculation.

But it’s one thing for punters to be fooled by all of that, but quite another for a player to think a deal was close? Or was he also just watching Sky Sports and the betting markets to get the latest on how close he was to moving?

 

[Skitzo]

I've got an even better conspiracy theory. Some won't be surprised to hear . . .

Apparently, there were some very odd betting patterns on Mahrez to Man City. Lots of speculation on Sky Sports leading to lots of bets on Sky Bet.

Not the first time that Sky have made a lot of money out of speculation that they've generated themselves.

I'm not saying that Man City weren't interested in Mahrez. but it seems that the two clubs never really got close to an agreement.

didn't the initial story come from one of Man City's pet journalists

 

[City Fan]

didn't the initial story come from one of Man City's pet journalists

Don’t let facts get in the way of a ridiculous conspiracy theory.

 

[City Fan]

This is Garth Crook’s view on the matter:

“How tragic then that Leicester's love affair with Mahrez has come to such a dramatic impasse. With a little bit of common sense, everyone would have won. Mahrez gets his move to Manchester City, Manchester City get the player and Leicester get a vast sum of money well in excess of what they paid for him.

Now they have a distraction that will dominate their every press conference until it is resolved. Well done, Leicester.”


What a ****ing imbecile.

 

[pork pie fox]

What a ****ing imbecile.

I think we knew that already, didn’t we?

 

[Blaarev]

Transfer window (incl. the Mahrez saga) summed up:

http://www.espn.co.uk/video/latest-videos/600/video/3368327?ex_cid=fw_affid296

 

[City Fan]

I think we knew that already, didn’t we?

He has reached a whole new level of ineptness now.

 

[Volpone]

He has reached a whole new level of ineptness now.

Ineptitude?

 

[homer]

He has reached a whole new level of ineptness now.

Ineptitude?

And I want to go for ineptiocity

Can someone set up a very important poll to see which should be the one we go with

 

[pork pie fox]

This is Garth Crook’s view on the matter:
With a little bit of common sense, everyone would have won. Leicester get a vast sum of money well in excess of what they paid for him.

This is the bit that I keep seeing, that I don't understand. If reports are to be believed, we would be accepting somewhere in the region of £25m-£30m less than our valuation of him. How does that count as a "win"?

 

[Brown Nose]

This is the bit that I keep seeing, that I don't understand. If reports are to be believed, we would be accepting somewhere in the region of £25m-£30m less than our valuation of him. How does that count as a "win"?

And this links to my issue.

If club 1 make an enquiry for a player ascribing a certain value and club 2 respond with a wildly different valuation, why wasn't that the end of it?

It seems as though they talked further but never got anywhere close to an agreement.

Surely this sort of thing happens all the time and doesn't create headlines everywhere? The deal was never going to happen and there is no possible benefit for us in revealing any of this publicly.

So why did Man City go public when they were never that interested? And why was it reported as a deal likely to happen when it never was?

Mahrez is a pawn in a much bigger game here. Agents using media and media using agents to make lots of money, ultimately at our expense.

 

[camberwell fox]

And this links to my issue.

If club 1 make an enquiry for a player ascribing a certain value and club 2 respond with a wildly different valuation, why wasn't that the end of it?

It seems as though they talked further but never got anywhere close to an agreement.

Surely this sort of thing happens all the time and doesn't create headlines everywhere? The deal was never going to happen and there is no possible benefit for us in revealing any of this publicly.

So why did Man City go public when they were never that interested? And why was it reported as a deal likely to happen when it never was?

Mahrez is a pawn in a much bigger game here. Agents using media and media using agents to make lots of money, ultimately at our expense.

Or/and Mahrez/pondscum agent had been approached directly and told of their interest in order to agitate the situation and force a knock down price?

Maybe Man City incorrectly thought we would cave in as most others do?