Will Mahrez go for 100 million.

[An Away Move]

To be honest if he went for a free we’d have got excellent value out of him. 

I get the point about him being a depreciating asset, but come on the initial outlay was £400k. 

[Carl the Llama]

2 hours ago, SamDZ said:

Well, employees don't get sold they can resign. Mahrez has been trying to resign for ages now its slavery of the 21st century.

I stand to be corrected but I'm pretty sure slaves never had a contract with their owners for the equivalent of £100k per week for a set amount of years which they can buy themselves out of at the end of the season if they aren't happy with being asked to honour that contract.

[foxes67]

MY issue is this..yes Mahrez wants out but you dont train and miss a game thinking your getting

sold,he should of turned up and his agent could of still tried to do a deal.

The owners have put so much money in to build the club,,Brought the stadium off the council,Buy some outstanding

players authorise good wage deals etc

look after travelling fans,free food and beer here and there clappers flags to build atmosphere.

So what im getting at is this we need to keep our best players and add other quality players so we can go to the 

next level again or the same teams will always be top 6 and city will be just hovering around 7th and below.

Im sure we all want to attract top players we wont do that by sell sell sell its not all about a good profit.

Maybe Mahrez should have the attitude i will stay at Leicester they are building big things i can win prem or be in Champs league again with them theyve done it before. we can dream cant we..

Well lets hope Mahrez reacts in the correct way..

 

[ZeGuy]

7 hours ago, Gerbold said:

But football isn't business, is it? Does the average worker get the adulation and remuneration people like Mahrez can expect? His personal needs are met by his employer to an extent unimaginable to 'normal' employees.

What we're discussing here is him playing the prima-donna whenever it suits him. It leaves his fellow workers - who have aspirations of their own - having to play an important match in this season's push to an elevated position without him.

He's acted badly and without any sense of behaviour appropriate to the moment and his current employers. And Manchester City have acted badly - believing they could haggle in coppers for Leicester's most significant play-maker in order to solve their immediate problems.

Now Puel and his team are faced with trying to reintegrate him into the team. It's like cleaning up after a baby. He knows he has clout but maybe it's gone too far this time. A brave club would sideline him until summer until he could be sold to a club of their choice for a derisory fee.

I'm agreeing with you. It's gone a bridge too far this time. There is just no way things will be patched up. Maybe for the next 4 months, but never in the long term. He has to go this summer before more damage is done. I think there will be a rift in dressing room that could be very difficult to handle. The other players can be understandably pissed off and he won't be happy with how things turned out. No matter what the market says he was bought for 400k and we outright rejected a 65M bid. After a bit of reflexion I have yet to see if he can really go past it and turn up for the rest of a season. I hope ManCity won't win the CL because it will be even more difficult.

 

We might have not bent over to the "mighties" but I fear it could really be a pyrrhic victory.

 

Time will tell.

Edited 1 February 2018 by ZeGuy

[TheLittleBigMan]

He needs to go now. We had him for longer than we thought we would. Most of us agree he's the finest creative player we've had but come on, our clubs developed as-well and we need to move on to different challenges too. Like working out how the fu*k Nacho didn't score tonight..

[420Hashish]

He's boycotting us now. Really?

 

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/blog/transfer-talk/79/post/3367854/riyad-mahrez-set-to-boycott-leicester-city-after-manchester-city-transfer-was-blocked

[TeaMen Tom]

Should have sold him, sad to say. I applaud ownership for standing its' ground and telling City to F--- off but they may now be faced with a depreciating asset whose head isn't right (in a manner of speaking) and doesn't want to be in Leicester.  As an American sports fan, the one thing I don't like about soccer is how the rich teams control everything - a microcosm of the world itself - but this is a case where standing their ground may not have been the right call.  Of course what Mahrez supposedly pulled (not showing for training - and now this) puts him in the diva category so he doesn't come out of this looking great, but regardless you just get the feeling that this is going to end badly.

 

Better to have cut bait, and move on with £ 65 million to reinvest back into the club. Now they've got a major problem on their hands that will impact the club in a negative way. It already did vs Everton.

[m4DD0gg]

We should have sold him. We now have a sulky twat on the books who has zero affinity to the club other than to pick up his 100k per week.

 

Sadly i think the ripples of this fiasco will be felt for the rest of the season on the pitch.

[FrankieADZ]

1 hour ago, DrezZone said:

He's boycotting us now. Really?

 

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/blog/transfer-talk/79/post/3367854/riyad-mahrez-set-to-boycott-leicester-city-after-manchester-city-transfer-was-blocked

i cant imagine hed do that tbh, since he ruin his imagine and manner so to speak, him doing that would certainly put some clubs off buying him

 

though the article just says about him being depressed from his "friend", from what I remember did that friend say hes threating not to play for us again, he just said hes unhappy we didnt sell him

 

as much as i think RIyad is a 100mil player, i think we might let him go for something like £75mil in the summer if an offer comes in sadly

Edited 1 February 2018 by FrankieADZ

[breadandcheese]

I don't really think the owners value him at £95m. I think they overpriced him as a way of saying "If you want us to sell on the last day of the transfer window, with no replacement, with the impact that it will have on our European prospects and who we can sign in the summer, then you need to pay us silly money."

 

Come the summer, I think we'll accept £50-55m.  

 

Obviously, this can all blow up in our face if he downs tools and we're without him anyway, but I think Man City have behaved pretty shabbily to both Mahrez and Leicester, in making a bid with only 48 hours of the window left, when they've apparently been scouting him for months. 

[Spudulike]

On 21/01/2018 at 09:08, Spudulike said:

I haven't noticed him clap the crowd at the end of a match like he did yesterday. 

 

Almost felt like a farewell. I might have read to much in to it

... but then again perhaps not