The Mahrez Saga

[Miles Away]

The best player the club has ever hired, bar none.

An absolute genius, and as BN says those who want him gone will likely be daydreaming about him come October.

I believe he’s one of the best players in the world.

 

[Miles Away]

Make no mistake, this is the beginning of the end. Puel in, Mahrez and possibly Vardy out. Nightmare.

 

[jb5000]

Mahrez and Vardy were always going to leave at some point. We've done well to keep Mahrez for so long, and can only hope the cash is reinvested wisely (I have more faith in Puel than I had for the previous regime on that front).

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[tedfoxxx]

I detest Manchester City and all they stand for. Seriously, **** them, **** their money, **** the Qataris and **** that hypocrit Guardiola.

The genius that is Riyad Mahrez is far, far too good and pure for them. I’d rather he went to Arsenal and never won another another trophy.

Still, World Cup in Russia to look forward to this summer!

What a steaming bag of wank football is.

 

[tedfoxxx]

Also the tale of Patrick Roberts summarises what is so shit about Manchester City. Lured him away from a club powerless to resist, put no effort into developing him and then **** him off as a bargaining chip in a deal for another player they don’t need, deserve or will even use that much.

 

[City Fan]

**** the Qataris

*Pedant alert*
The Qataris have nothing to do with Man City.

 

[tedfoxxx]

*Pedant alert*
The Qataris have nothing to do with Man City.

Beg your pardon, confused them with PSG. Another bunch of bastards.

 

[jb5000]

Saudis, Qataris easy to mix up two families robbing off with the oil wealth of their entire nations and then frittering it away on toys

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[Skitzo]

Mahrez leaving was inevitable and will force other players to step up, we have been far to easy to stop as players seemed happy to give it to Riyad and wait for him to do it

 

[Lako42]

If this is all true then even the owners have got the pathetic 'little old Leicester' syndrome.


****ing off the best player not currently in a top 4 team for **** all money will be a pathetic failure of every suit wearing **** at our club.

If you haven't got the bollocks to hold out for what he's worth we should have just sold in January.


Leicester are back, leicester are back, whoa whoa.....little leicester are back.......

 

[jb5000]

I'm not sure what realistically can be done. They can pay him just as much as we can, he'll go into a team with big cup football to look forward to next season and play alongside some fantastic players. We can only get as much as possible for him and spend the proceeds as wisely as when we bought him

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[Graz]

Feel sorry for Roberts if he does come as part of the deal based on some of the expectations and comments on here already.

If we get £50m+ and Roberts for Mahrez, that doesn't make Roberts the replacement for Mahrez. It means he's a young player with bags of potential who we hope can play a part. But you'd expect that 50m - or some of it at least - to be spent on a more direct, experienced Mahrez replacement.

But let's get this clear - we will not be able to replace Mahrez with the same quality. Not straight away. So don't put that on his replacement.

 

[big_mac4824]

Mahrez is and was a one in a million find and I will be gutted when he departs, technically outstanding majestic when running at defenders coupled with superb vision by far the most gifted footballer I have seen at our club. Strange how he is a Marmite character but then again a lot of city fans get confused between effort and quality.

In relation to Man City do we go for 80 million quid or accept 50 million and Roberts who I must confess I have not seen much of? I cant help but feel he will be a bit part player there and that will be a tragedy.

 

[Jeff]

Roberts who I must confess I have not seen much of?

He looks as good as Hossein Kaebi.

 

[SwedeFox]

Agreed. But if we don’t get at the very least £75m for him, it’ll be an absolute travesty.

I'd take £35m. How can you turn down a ROI of 10 000%?

 

[Jeff]

I'd take £35m. How can you turn down a ROI of 10 000%?

Do you think we'll be able to sign a replacement for £350,000?

Do you think we'll get back what we paid for Mendy, Musa, Slimani, Benalouane, Kapustka etc?


Player values can go up or down. What we paid for them is irrelevant when we sell them.

 

[SwedeFox]

Do you think we'll be able to sign a replacement for £350,000?

Do you think we'll get back what we paid for Mendy, Musa, Slimani, Benalouane, Kapustka etc?


Player values can go up or down. What we paid for them is irrelevant when we sell them.

Yes sorry, I was trying to lampoon the kind of smug quasi-economic standpoint that will discard current market value or more qualitative contributions such as actually being a great football player as long as a profit is made on one of the biggest bargains in the history of football transfers, was a bit unclear perhaps.

 

[Rock Fox]

He looks as good as Hossein Kaebi.

Looks okay - needs work on his goal celebrations

 

[fitz]

He looks as good as Hossein Kaebi.

What an odd set of clips. A mix of goals and giving the ball away.

 

[londonfox]

When Mahrez leaves I hope he goes on to be as successful as his talent deserves. I'd be really happy for him if he was to win the Champions League and be a star on the highest level. He is the best player I have seen in a City short in my 30+ years supporting the club (11 year old me would have said that was Tommy Wright (the original) but I've since grown up).

So what if Man City have money. We are not exactly poor. I'm sure some Hull fans weren't happy with "moneybags Leicester" when we signed Harry Maguire. Some Birmingham fans probably think we mugged them off with how little we paid for Demarai Gray.

Best of luck to Riyad. And if that is at Man City then good luck to them too.