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

[mozartfox]

4 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

And accepting a below par bid from Roma for Riyad would some how change that potential scenario??

 

Football, generally is a merry-go-round. Players leave, players are replaced. You have to trust the recruiters at your club to do that. 

 

We lost Kante and Ndidi (albeit a different player) who was attracted with the prospect of proving himself here. We have two ageing centre backs and seem to have filled one of those gaps with an up and coming young player who wants an opportunity to prove himself further in this league. Not to mention Kelechi, who on his day could command a starting berth at probably any team in Serie A. 

 

The point is, as comments from within the club have shown, we are reluctant to sell Riyad but will listen to the right offer from the right club. Leave the replacement recruitment to us. What is annoying about this situation is Roma are trying to mix with the industry big players and quite obviously do not have the balls (or money) to do so. Respectfully, we have rejected the bids because they just don't seem to have the means to compete. 

You make some good points there Rudders.. Thanks

[shade]

brb, i'm off to the apple store to try and offer them £100 for an iphone 7

[StriderHiryu]

To be fair to Riyad, even though it's clear he wants to go, he has not gone on strike (Ulloa!) or put in sub-par performances since making the request. He's been good in every game he's played for us in preseason.

 

I still think he will leave, probably in the last week of the window as teams get more and more desperate. I'd love him to stay though. The one thing in our favor is that I don't think Roma will pay anything like what we got for him. We want more than they sold Salah for and I doubt they will pay that for him.

 

Regarding him leaving - I don't think it's an issue of not being able to attract of keep players. After all some guy called Neymar playing for a little-known club called Barcelona decided to leave this window. Mahrez came here as a stepping stone to go somewhere else, helped us achieved our ultimate glory and stuck around for the Champions League. Maybe he will only go down as a one-season wonder, but boy what a season it was.

[mazarron fox]

15 minutes ago, shade said:

brb, i'm off to the apple store to try and offer them £100 for an iphone 7

Try asking Them if you can spread the payment over 4 years, and insist on no buy back clause!

[weller54]

16 minutes ago, shade said:

brb, i'm off to the apple store to try and offer them £100 for an iphone 7

Start at 50 quid... They might take it! 

[Guest Col city fan]

18 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

To be fair to Riyad, even though it's clear he wants to go, he has not gone on strike (Ulloa!) or put in sub-par performances since making the request. He's been good in every game he's played for us in preseason.

 

I still think he will leave, probably in the last week of the window as teams get more and more desperate. I'd love him to stay though. The one thing in our favor is that I don't think Roma will pay anything like what we got for him. We want more than they sold Salah for and I doubt they will pay that for him.

 

Regarding him leaving - I don't think it's an issue of not being able to attract of keep players. After all some guy called Neymar playing for a little-known club called Barcelona decided to leave this window. Mahrez came here as a stepping stone to go somewhere else, helped us achieved our ultimate glory and stuck around for the Champions League. Maybe he will only go down as a one-season wonder, but boy what a season it was.

Agree with all of this. It's clear that Mahrez just, pleasantly, wants away. He wants a change, I think.

He's not been awkward, hostile, offensive or anything really. He's just made it clear he wants to leave.

I don't even blame him for announcing it. In a world full of underhand dealings and hypocrisy, he was refreshingly honest imo.

If we can get what the club seem is the 'right price' for the player, I think we should let him go, with our blessing.

[Ric Flair]

7 hours ago, SaporeDiMahrez said:

That's true, but the situation for your team still remain extremely delicate at the moment.

 

One, because even if Leicester decides to keep Riyad they'll be keeping an unhappy player. Secondarily, assuming you manage to get fair value for him, what kind of player do you expect to get in his place? Because you could find a £50m substitute but what makes you think he'll interested in joining a Leicester without Riyad himself? What if Drinkwater without Mahrez wants to leave too? What are the odds of ending up (not necessarily this year) with a team twih plenty of cash but no appeal to attract top players? In a scenario where your options are to either buy really young prospects with high bust potential or pay silly money for someone overvalued like Siggurson? 

 

As a Leicester fan, that's what I'd be worried about: it takes one player to leave for the domino to fall.

Money, the PL is rolling in the grubby stuff and we'll just pay over the odds for someone. It's not that difficult to attract players when you're offering them £100,000 a week. The reason the newly promoted teams seem to struggle but the likes of Leicester, Palace, Bournemouth and Stoke are bringing in players on massive wages is because once you've been in the PL a couple of seasons it's much easier to increase your salaries and comply with FFP.

 

Take Thorgan Hazard for example, does he dream of playing for Leicester? No, of course not but he can go to Dortmund and earn £45,000 a week or come to us on more than double that no problem. Not to mention the selling club receive much more in transfer fees as they know they can manipulate PL teams.

 

Iheanacho, Maguire and Iborra for a very mediocre side is exceptional business in terms of attracting top quality.

[brucey]

8 hours ago, Albert said:

When have they said anything publicly at all? They don't need to. They're multi billionaires who have a prized asset on a 3yr contract. More fool you if u believe anything u read on twitter or in the papers. £50m is the price tag they've set and won't be bullied into anything less 

 

I was referring to this quote from Top, saying they have not set a price, which I doubt was made up by the Mercury... I was hoping they haven't told Riyad 50m and we'll definitely sell because 50m is no use to us if it comes from Arsenal on deadline day.

 

"I don't set the exact price tag, as we don't want to sell him. Reporters can have their say. I didn't say 40, 50 or 100 million because I really don't know.

 

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/riyad-mahrez-leicester-city-owner-228965

[volpeazzurro]

7 hours ago, SaporeDiMahrez said:

That's true, but the situation for your team still remain extremely delicate at the moment.

 

One, because even if Leicester decides to keep Riyad they'll be keeping an unhappy player. Secondarily, assuming you manage to get fair value for him, what kind of player do you expect to get in his place? Because you could find a £50m substitute but what makes you think he'll interested in joining a Leicester without Riyad himself? What if Drinkwater without Mahrez wants to leave too? What are the odds of ending up (not necessarily this year) with a team twih plenty of cash but no appeal to attract top players? In a scenario where your options are to either buy really young prospects with high bust potential or pay silly money for someone overvalued like Siggurson? 

 

As a Leicester fan, that's what I'd be worried about: it takes one player to leave for the domino to fall.

Nailing my colours to the mast, ie my son and I are Leicester supporters first and then Roma, but I actually think that Roma have even worse problems than Leicester. 

 

With Rudiger, Salah, and Paredes sold and Manolas likely to go shortly,  Roma have cashed in and have brought in the self same mere prospects you mention. Roma have cashed in and apart from the building of a new ground, as a club, show no ambition to build on their high place finishes in recent years. With the exception of perhaps Juventus,  Serie A is now sadly a poor league.

 

My view is that Mahrez will never go to Roma for several reasons. Firstly he and his agent are using Roma to elicit bids from richer and better teams. With the exception of a place in the Champions League (they won't be in it long, let's be honest), this is not a club that can offer Mahrez an ambitious future. Secondly, Roma are playing a cynical game in pretending to their fans they are interested in signing Mahrez.  When in their history did they last sign a player for 40+ million pounds? If they got him, who have they now got who he could play with?  Albeit Mahrez had a quiet last season,  if Salah sold for  £38million then surely the award winning Mahrez has got to be worth at least as much if not more, after all, how many good seasons has Salah had? In a country where  £50 million has been paid for an only half decent fullback (Kyle Walker) and the same quoted for a set piece specialist called Siggurdson and a poor French league decent player named Lacazette, how on earth did Roma ever expect to get Mahrez for 20 , 25 or even 30 million? They are clearly not serious it's just noise to try and appease their Roma supporters who deserve better, they're being conned. 

 

Compared with Roma's poor transfer activity, thus far Leicester have signed a £25m quality striker, an experienced  3 times Europa League winning captain midfielder and a young proven Premiership centre half. I think Roma as a club have more to be worried about. They will finish high up in Serie A no doubt, but compared to the competition in the Premiership that's no great achievement. 

[Blue ROI]

Roma have been like Spurs finishing high in the table the last few years but without Salah and Totti's retirement they might start to fade.The Milan clubs could be the strongest they've been in a while so might just surpass them. A 5th/6th finish for Roma wouldnt surprise me.

 

Mahrez would be better staying with us until January. Get his price up and look a lot more attractive to another club at our asking price.

[UniFox21]

Only reason the situation looks so bleak for mahrez leaving is due to that statement at the start of summer. If he'd privately gone about his business he may have gotten a move away

[Kitchandro]

2 hours ago, Col city fan said:

Agree with all of this. It's clear that Mahrez just, pleasantly, wants away. He wants a change, I think.

He's not been awkward, hostile, offensive or anything really. He's just made it clear he wants to leave.

I don't even blame him for announcing it. In a world full of underhand dealings and hypocrisy, he was refreshingly honest imo.

If we can get what the club seem is the 'right price' for the player, I think we should let him go, with our blessing.

He said he wanted to leave over 2 months ago and it's been obvious his heart wasn't here since last season started. He doesn't need to keep going on about it like we're just going to bend to his will.

 

It's the arrogance that annoys me. 'Yeh I'm clearly too good for this club (even though I was shit last season and didn't try) so I'm leaving as clearly someone is going to buy me for £50m. Oh wait no they're not, well I want to leave so surely you're going to let me go for £30m. You're welcome, Leicester.'

 

As great a player as he is, over the last year he's just wound me up with his attitude. I can't really accept the laziness and lack of commitment Mahrez has shown on the pitch like most people on here can.

[foxinsocks]

he might well want away.  But... the owners want say £50m.  He signed a contract (in return for bigwages) so that unless he can plays well enough for someone to make our owners an offer they will accept then he is stuck...he cannot go.  So his best way forward is to play well.

[Babylon]

11 hours ago, SaporeDiMahrez said:

No one has that mentality here apart from nutty fans spamming the net.

There seems to be a lot of them.

[Sublime_Coatsworth]

21 minutes ago, foxinsocks said:

he might well want away.  But... the owners want say £50m.  He signed a contract (in return for bigwages) so that unless he can plays well enough for someone to make our owners an offer they will accept then he is stuck...he cannot go.  So his best way forward is to play well.

Agreed. His ultra high wages are a reflection of the 'value' the player has - and the new package he agreed to sign last summer. He can't have it both ways and needs to knuckle down and work to regain his former form to justify his valuation (transfer fee and salary).

 

if he does that there'll be bigger and better teams than Roma after him!

[bald reynard]

More likelihood that Arsenal will be back in for Riyad:-

 

https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/894508360107782144/photo/1

[volpeazzurro]

1 hour ago, Kitchandro said:

He said he wanted to leave over 2 months ago and it's been obvious his heart wasn't here since last season started. He doesn't need to keep going on about it like we're just going to bend to his will.

 

It's the arrogance that annoys me. 'Yeh I'm clearly too good for this club (even though I was shit last season and didn't try) so I'm leaving as clearly someone is going to buy me for £50m. Oh wait no they're not, well I want to leave so surely you're going to let me go for £30m. You're welcome, Leicester.'

 

As great a player as he is, over the last year he's just wound me up with his attitude. I can't really accept the laziness and lack of commitment Mahrez has shown on the pitch like most people on here can.

I agree with all of this yet it's very sad because it didn't have to be like this. It's not long ago that he had us all eating out of his hands and I don't think that season was a fluke, I still think he's that promising and talented. Teams like Barcelona must have at least had their heads turned he was that good, but they and Real Madrid for example can usually get whoever they want but neither do they usually rush into things, they don't have to.  It wouldn't suprise me at all if they were just watching to see how he performed the following season. Marhez too, I can't honestly blame him for wanting to go there, what a pinacle for him to achieve, I for one would have been sad but not bitter, have understood and wanted to follow his career and see him succeed. 

 

However it was not to be. He signed a big contract with a huge payrise that outside the very top teams is a very good salary. Nothing wrong with that, he deserved it! It's at that point it went wrong. Barcelona et al were justified in keeping their powder dry as the player's flaws came to the surface. As many people have voiced, loss of form and adapting to different on field situations can be tolerated  by most fans, particularly us who, being behind him so much,  would find excuses for him, some still are.

 

From Barcelona and Real Madrid to Roma and Arsenal or any club his agent can currently whore him out to, is a big drop in ambition I'd say. Are Leicester City with who they've just signed really such a bad club to be at? Is there not a very good chance that with Vardy and Iheanacho,  a fit in body and mind Marhez could again shine like a diamond, raise his stock by January or next summer in the eyes of the biggest teams? We are still seen as a fairytale team and people still want to believe. Sign one big deal with the likes of Arsenal or Roma Ryhad and after 3 years, because of your age then, your chance may well have gone for good and you'll just be a 'never quite made it man'. Possibly he's being badly advised and possibly I've just got it very very wrong but if it was my son, I'd suggest he stayed where he is, bust a gut, and prove what an exceptional talent he is. 

[HankMarvin]

Starts on Friday has a stormer in front of Wenger, which convinces him to put in a £45m offer 

[MrSpaM]

This is looking more and more like another Payet situation developing

 

He doesn't want to play for us next season, he's going to be sold for as much as we can get for him before the window closes, regardless of whether it's lower than our asking price

 

I'm not usually one for being negative about transfers, players and stuff, but people need to start accepting that he's leaving, because he definitely is

[Ric Flair]

13 minutes ago, MrSpaM said:

This is looking more and more like another Payet situation developing

 

He doesn't want to play for us next season, he's going to be sold for as much as we can get for him before the window closes, regardless of whether it's lower than our asking price

 

I'm not usually one for being negative about transfers, players and stuff, but people need to start accepting that he's leaving, because he definitely is

This is nowhere near a Payet situation who right from the off was a disgrace and forced the move.

 

I do wonder if Arsenal will play with Riyad's head though this week before we play them, Wenger is a twat like that. If he does then I hope we add £10 million on the price tag.

[Stevosevic]

16 minutes ago, MrSpaM said:

This is looking more and more like another Payet situation developing

 

He doesn't want to play for us next season, he's going to be sold for as much as we can get for him before the window closes, regardless of whether it's lower than our asking price

 

I'm not usually one for being negative about transfers, players and stuff, but people need to start accepting that he's leaving, because he definitely is

Not really similar though is it.

 

Mahrez is still integrated in the group, playing games and has been quoted on record that he will give his all.

 

Also quoted as saying that if he has to stay then he will accept it. 

[MrSpaM]

6 minutes ago, Stevosevic said:

Not really similar though is it.

 

Mahrez is still integrated in the group, playing games and has been quoted on record that he will give his all.

 

Also quoted as saying that if he has to stay then he will accept it. 

Did these quotes come from him, or are they things Shakey has said in press conferences?

[Stevosevic]

3 minutes ago, MrSpaM said:

Did these quotes come from him, or are they things Shakey has said in press conferences?

From him

[MrSpaM]

Just now, Stevosevic said:

From him

When did this happen?

 

Where are these 'quotes'?

[Stevosevic]

1 minute ago, MrSpaM said:

When did this happen?

 

Where are these 'quotes'?

They will be in a mahrez thread somewhere but it was around about the time he was due back for pre season.

 

This situation really isn't like Payet