Mahrez to .......................?

[Jattdogg]

Time for mahrez to roll up the sleeves and play again.

 

Not going anywhere mate.

 

 

 

[car1os]

1 hour ago, rabahdz said:

Arsenal insists on Lemar, Mahrez is plan B in this file, Arsenal offers 45-50 m for the young player of monaco and I think he addon 5-10 million in bonuses if ever it is possible.

Arsenal has not made any offers for Riyadh, so the rumors on twitter are rumors and I do not care, Riyadh needs to prepare for a new season with Leicester because no one but a slight interest in arsenal , Is not interested by him.

 

Sorry for my english

Riyad, is that you?

[Redouane]

Now if Mahrez goes, fair play, 50m in the bank. If he stays, he says pressure on himself to perform since he knows he is not desperately wanted elsewhere. Teams could wait for his value to drop, but lower value will also come with a lower-confidence. Plus his wages will surely drop.

 

Stupidest decision by Mahrez to force a move like that. 

[Matt]

47 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Why would they want to pay £50mill for a player who has had one good season?  

 

Arsenal are bigger than us, Mahrez is unsettled and wants to leave, if they can keep chipping away then I'm sure they'll think we'll give in eventually. We don't have a great history of getting value for our players as it is. Wenger, for all his faults, isn't an idiot and there's no way he'll want to pay that much for a player who has only done it for one season. If I was an Arsenal fan (or a fan of any club going for Mahrez) then I'd be disappointed at chucking £50million on him.

 

Although I don't like these crazy fees - look at Pogba, Bale and even back to the likes of Ferdinand - at least these players have proved themselves season after season.

Before I start no-one is worth £1 million let alone £50...£90m but we have a market and prices are blown up.

 

Are you telling me Pogba is worth £90m? Proved himself last season? I wouldn't, he was poor last season, Mahrez from the 2015/16 season was better than Pogba, so on that basis (Ok it was only 1 season) but Mahrez was worth more than Pogba, so was Kante, but that was a release clause, yada, yada, yada. I say that straight faced, Pogba did nothing last season.

 

Stones, had one good season, got sold for £50m? Unbelievable.

 

Sterling - Never worth what he went for, never.

 

Carroll - Now I like him when fit but that's the problem, he's a sicknote, £35m.

 

They excuse you'll here for those 3 are that they're English, what a poor excuse.

 

On mentioning figures in the region on £30...Slimani, never in a month of Sundays is a £30m player!

 

I've come up with a few examples there, there are many more aswell, in this market average players are £30m, £30m is the new £10m, now Mahrez had an average less than average season last season, but we as Leicester fans knew how good he was before 15/16, he's above average, yes he had a blip last season for whatever reason, downed tools, couldn't be bothered, didn't want to be here, wanted out, simply coincidence that he had a poor season, we don't know, but I class him as above average no matter how frustrating or pissed off with him that I was last season, therefore he going in the tier above these average £30m priced players, maybe £50m is abit much, personally I value him somewhere between £40 - £50m, now quite rightly no-one wants to gamble that much money on him off the back of last season but as i've said a few times, he only has himself to blame for that.

 

Something needs doing about this 'market', a cap on transfer fees and wages, it's getting out of hand, it has been for years, unfortunately it's too late I think, it'll become a victim of it's own success sooner or later.

[yorkie1999]

16 minutes ago, car1os said:

Riyad, is that you?

Doubt it, not after that eloquent statement he put out a few weeks back so beautifully written

[Wymsey]

Hope he apologises and realises that this is a club that could compete to play in Champions League again next season.

Plenty of worse teams about and on our day, we can match the elite if we keep consistency levels up.

Feels like he wants to have empathy but the club have given everything and its now only right for him to keep his focus here strongly while no bids have come in.

[rabahdz]

30 minutes ago, car1os said:

Riyad, c'est toi?

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yes 

[volpeazzurro]

1 hour ago, mozartfox said:

Morgan does not have a tool? Shite didn't know that. 

Now you put it like that, possibly that was the cause, if it fell off somewhere no wonder he looked unbalanced at times!

[NotTheMarketLeader]

2 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

What about Vardy then August - February? He was the worst underperforming player in our squad, it was horrifying. Mahrez did improve anyway just not quite as dramatically as Vardy and a few others.

Come alive.

 

He was poor no doubt.

 

No way was he the worst though - he got no ****ing service whatsoever.

 

Literally Mahrez didn't pass to him for two months ffs.

 

You have only to look at the stats  on Vardy's conversion rate - chances to goals was over 30%; I think better in open play than the title winning season (?).

 

Every measureable

stat for Mahrez meanwhile fell off a cliff.

 

Not one other player was as lacklustre as Mahrez over the whole season - even with Shakes at the helm he could barely raise a jog half the time.

 

Of all the players after the change in manager Mahrez improved the least. That was standout obvious.

 

I really don't see why any of our fans can be defending Mahrez's last PL season, I really don't.

 

[Danizen]

It's his own fault. Mahrez should have just kept quiet. Release a statement when you actually get a move, not when everything is up in the air. 

 

I hope the club stick to their guns. Someone will pay the asking price eventually and if they don't, we'll save money in the long run as we won't be seen as a soft touch. 

[49er]

2 hours ago, boweigo said:

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Gooner here. Mahrez made a tactical error prior to last season and is paying the price today. He could have moved last season as he had great demand after an excellent season. He decided to stay and indicated he was promised a move by management the following year. This kind of arrangement is great if he had performed well but he didn't thus he is stuck in this situation. His movement is dictated by demand and right now it doesn't look promising. Konte last season left while he was hot and moved from strength to strength. Suarez tried to move from Liverpool to Arsenal a few years back but was convinced to stay with the team. They promised to let him leave the following year. He actually performed better the next season and was sold to Barca for a great price. Arsenal’s Sanchez is doing ever thing he can force a move to Man City. His situation is better than Mahrez as he can leave for free next year but he is pushing hard for move now. He understands that one bad season can cut his value and he may not be able to get top dollar next year. Arsenal knows Mahrez is a quality player but his stock has eroded and they will try to get  Lemar as the first option. If they don't succeed, they may come for Mahrez. I doubt they will pay the asking fee so he might have to spend another season with you guys. If this occurs, he will have to produce a great season to leave the following year or he may have to end up running down his contract with City. He will have left almost 10 million pounds on the table if he plays again for City this season. Fans might not like to hear this but Football is a business. This is why owners tie players to contracts to spell out the terms of their employment. Mahrez appears to have scored an own goal here

 

A transfer fee of £25-30m is often referred to in the press for Oxlade-Chamberlain. If he's worth that amount then Mahrez is easily £50m+. Mahrez was a key player in a title winning team. The same cannot be said of Oxlade-Chamberlain or dear old Theo Walcott (how on earth does he earn £120k per week for someone of such limited ability?). Almost forgot the £30m+ you shelled out for Xhaka and Mustafi - and , price wise, you are trying to put them in the same league as Mahrez!

 

[Babylon]

6 minutes ago, 49er said:

A transfer fee of £25-30m is often referred to in the press for Oxlade-Chamberlain. If he's worth that amount then Mahrez is easily £50m+. Mahrez was a key player in a title winning team. The same cannot be said of Oxlade-Chamberlain or dear old Theo Walcott (how on earth does he earn £120k pe week for someone of such limited ability?). Almost forgot the £30m+ you shelled out for Xhaka and Mustafi - and , price wise, you are trying to put them in the same league as Mahrez!

 

Precisely... they keep talking about a poor season, by previous standards it was. But it still puts to shame the seasons Bolasie and Sissoko had before being transferred for £30m.

[yorkie1999]

So if we don't get 50 million for him, we end up with one of the leagues most skilful players working his nuts off and trying his hardest next season in order to build his stock back up. Blimey, I feel so sorry for us.

[WigstonWanderer]

Gold is currently about 30,000 pounds per kilogram. 100 kg of gold is worth about 3 million pounds. Mahrez probably weighs about 2/3 of that, so at 50m pounds, he is valued at about 25 times his weight in gold. 

 

Worlds gone crazy.

[deep blue]

If Mahrez wanted out now then he shouldn't have shown it by coming to some sort of informal agreement, which doesn't seem to be binding, but by signing a contract for a single year. By signing a 4-year contract (no doubt for purposes of greed and insurance) he technically, and legally, committed himself to us for 4 years. He should expect no other outcome than that we will let him go on OUR terms, not his..

[HighPeakFox]

3 hours ago, volpeazzurro said:

Morgan hadn't got the tools but tried his best, Marhez had but didn't. Can forgive the first but not the latter.

I disagree that Mahrez didn't try. 

[ronnup]

Bit of a luxury player Riyad. Get him the ball in good areas and he makes things happen. Very hard to do that last season as we pumped it past him to nobody for months 

[Wymsey]

Still give him the benefit of the doubt that he's been low on confidence during the majority of last season and had a couple of hissy fits towards certain individuals, and that he's just in a 'low spell', with this being the lowest of the lot.

Just needs some confidence/spark back into him, somehow and whether Shakespeare will try to support him or leave Mahrez alone to sort his 'issues' out himself or he goes, as well as obviously more commitment from our highest-paid player.

[boweigo]

5 hours ago, 49er said:

A transfer fee of £25-30m is often referred to in the press for Oxlade-Chamberlain. If he's worth that amount then Mahrez is easily £50m+. Mahrez was a key player in a title winning team. The same cannot be said of Oxlade-Chamberlain or dear old Theo Walcott (how on earth does he earn £120k per week for someone of such limited ability?). Almost forgot the £30m+ you shelled out for Xhaka and Mustafi - and , price wise, you are trying to put them in the same league as Mahrez!

 

Sorry, had to run out and didn't realize that I pressed the return button. Football is a business, supply and demand. I think ox is worth more than 20 million and I think in Xhaka and Mustafi will come good this season. The prices being quoted and the money shelled out for these players is determine by the demand in the market place. No one is forcing City to sell Mahrez. You may value him at 50 million but no one else does. This just means possibly interested teams will just look else where and you guys can keep your star player.

[Buce]

16 minutes ago, boweigo said:

 

 

Yeah, fair comment.

[49er]

21 minutes ago, Buce said:

 

Yeah, fair comment.

Typical response from Arsenal - they promise so much, but then disappear in the final run in

[Almo-Fox]

Mahrez is not linked with lemar in his potential transfer to arsenal 

aW strategy is to secure most positions one by one   After securing lacazette means pushing giroud to the exit  and now comes lemar as hisa target for a CM position replacing the long injured santi cazorla  and ryad mahrez is his target as a winner by changing formation from343 to 4231 

The  ase of mahrez is a simple one is the price tag and no by clause is valued at 50 

 

Mahrez is world class above leicester players ( besides kasper and Ben Chilwell the next marcelo ) so no benefit to keep him from his move as he is now a target by some leicester fans , some former LCFC players ( eg Matt Eliot ) to destroy and make his staying difficult 

 

I see arsenal  coming with with a bid close to 50 m

 

Mahrez is staying professional as demanded by  Craig Shakespeare 

Footbal is a nice story   Now mahrez and next  ben  Chilwell ( move to real Madrid )

[simFox]

2 hours ago, yorkie1999 said:

So if we don't get 50 million for him, we end up with one of the leagues most skilful players working his nuts off and trying his hardest next season in order to build his stock back up. Blimey, I feel so sorry for us.

Let's hope this is the case. Or will he pull a Payet and throw his toys out.

[yorkie1999]

10 minutes ago, Ian996 said:

Let's hope this is the case. Or will he pull a Payet and throw his toys out.

Doesn't really matter though does it, can you imagine the reaction to that within the squad, he'd be a laughing stock 

[Guest Col city fan]

3 hours ago, NotTheMarketLeader said:

Come alive.

 

He was poor no doubt.

 

No way was he the worst though - he got no ****ing service whatsoever.

 

Literally Mahrez didn't pass to him for two months ffs.

 

You have only to look at the stats  on Vardy's conversion rate - chances to goals was over 30%; I think better in open play than the title winning season (?).

 

Every measureable

stat for Mahrez meanwhile fell off a cliff.

 

Not one other player was as lacklustre as Mahrez over the whole season - even with Shakes at the helm he could barely raise a jog half the time.

 

Of all the players after the change in manager Mahrez improved the least. That was standout obvious.

 

I really don't see why any of our fans can be defending Mahrez's last PL season, I really don't.

 

Despite little flashes of brilliance last season, Mahrez, like many of em, was absolute rubbish. There's no point suggesting otherwise. And if he's now shittin himself because he's publically stated he wants to leave the club, and no one wants him, then tough tits.

I'm of the school of thought that a striker is only as good as the supply he receives. The supply that Vardy received from the likes of Drinkwater, Mahrez and especially Amartey was rank. Our midfield was rank until it got bolstered with Ndidi.