Should Riyad Mahrez play for the club again?

[jayfox26]

When Mahrez does eventually leave in the summer, I really hope the owners refuse to sell him to city. I'd rather sell him to anyone else for £40m than sell him to city for £60m. Theirs and his blatant dis respect for our club should not be accepted. So we should sell him to anyone but them to spite both them and Mahrez. 

[Almo-Fox]

Marc albrighton : 

 

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-players-not-angry-1164543

[the fox]

marc is a great guy.

[AyewJoking]

I expect to see him play for us and I hope he does.

 

I don't think we will hold out for much more than 60M in the summer and mahrez may have several choices where to go.

[urban.spaceman]

I sincerely hope he sorts his head out and resumes training this week. No way in hell he'll play next Saturday but I fully expect him to play against Sheffield United. Puel might even make him temp captain again. I desperately want his last ever game for Leicester City to be the FA Cup Final at Wembley. 

[HybridFox]

He should be busting a gut to play in the Man City game next week!

 

Put in a stellar performance and all will be (temporarily) forgiven. He'll have all the headlines him and his agent could ask for and may just nudge Pep to come back in with a (proper) bid in the summer

[bpfox]

SO WHERE DOES THE CLUB STAND NOW, if he refuses to turn up can the club stop paying him and still have hold over the player as he has a contract. if he returns and the club want to punish him and make him play in the pl2, can they as long as they pay his wages.

[Captain...]

I voted yes, but not because we need him, but because he is a Leicester player, it's like family. You fall out at times you sort it out, some times it takes longer than others but in the end you can always put things right. He's a great player and I love watching him play, it shouldn't be because we "need him" it should be because we want him to.

[reynard]

5 hours ago, bpfox said:

SO WHERE DOES THE CLUB STAND NOW, if he refuses to turn up can the club stop paying him and still have hold over the player as he has a contract. if he returns and the club want to punish him and make him play in the pl2, can they as long as they pay his wages.

Will depend what is in his contract and what the club's disciplinary procedures are. He's an employee so will have signed up to this when he signed his contract. Could become messy if we refuse to pay him and he claims he is really unwell.

We can probably choose to pay him and not play him.

Edited 5 February 2018 by reynard

[Daggers]

19 hours ago, jayfox26 said:

So people who have a different opinion to you are all stupid? Ridiculous post. There was always going to be a mixed reaction to this. Some people want him back cos they can't see past his unbelievable skill and others feel that one player isn't bigger than our club and the utter dis respect he's shown the club and everyone attached to it should not be taken lightly. I think everyone is agreed that if he apologises to the fans and his team mates and gets his head down until the summer then of course we want our best player playing for us. But if he's going to poison the dressing room and continue causing trouble then he can feck right off. 

Fortunately, I don’t take post-criticism from people who tell the most gifted player to ever to grace the club, and the greatest asset the club has ever owned, to “feck right off”.

 

Its the emotive response of a teenager upon discovering his/her boyfriend/girlfriend has been talking to other suitors at a party. It’s the response of an emotionally-stunted individual who fears rejection and finds it laughably impossible to process the concept of alternative futures.

 

The only poison being issued here is that from the (now 120 of you) ‘‘fumin, babes”, based on nothing more than fabricated press articles.

 

So, yes, I continue to posit that were all of you to try getting on a trampoline, you’d get your legs stuck down the hole at the side, you would collectively cut your tongues while licking tin lids, and you’d all be the kind of people to require medical attention following japes with farts and fire. 

 

It isn’t the holding a different opinion to me, it’s the fact that you all hold a spectacularly dumbfück opinion.

Edited 5 February 2018 by Daggers

[Lionheart10]

51 minutes ago, Captain... said:

I voted yes, but not because we need him, but because he is a Leicester player, it's like family. You fall out at times you sort it out, some times it takes longer than others but in the end you can always put things right. He's a great player and I love watching him play, it shouldn't be because we "need him" it should be because we want him to.

He's made it pretty clear he don't want to be in our family any more.

[norwichfox]

46 minutes ago, reynard said:

Will depend what is in his contract and what the club's disciplinary procedures are. He's an employee so will have signed up to this when he signed his contract. Could become messy if we refuse to pay him and he claims he is really unwell.

We can probably choose to pay him and not play him.

Did he submit a sick note?

[Captain...]

1 minute ago, Lionheart10 said:

He's made it pretty clear he don't want to be in our family any more.

And most people at some point have fallen out with a family member to the point of wanting to disown them, but with a bit of work on both sides things can be resolved.

 

He was happy to win us games when Puel said he won't be sold this window, up until Man City got into his head and messed with it and everything has happened pretty quickly since then. It's frustrating but the worst thing that fans can do is pile in on him, this can be resolved to the benefit of the club and Mahrez. 

[AyewJoking]

1 hour ago, Captain... said:

I voted yes, but not because we need him, but because he is a Leicester player, it's like family. You fall out at times you sort it out, some times it takes longer than others but in the end you can always put things right. He's a great player and I love watching him play, it shouldn't be because we "need him" it should be because we want him to.

Why would we want him If we didn't need him?

[Captain...]

8 minutes ago, Royston. said:

Why would we want him If we didn't need him?

Because need means we can't function without him, need means we have no replacement and no chance of doing well without him. If we only bring him back because we need him, then that is a shallow and self serving attitude. I would rather he was brought back into the team because everyone wants it to happen because he wants to play for us and we want him to play for us.

[AlloverthefloorYesNdidi]

1 minute ago, Captain... said:

Because need means we can't function without him, need means we have no replacement and no chance of doing well without him. If we only bring him back because we need him, then that is a shallow and self serving attitude. I would rather he was brought back into the team because everyone wants it to happen because he wants to play for us and we want him to play for us.

He hasnt wanted to play for us for about a year.   Hasnt stopped him performing well in recent months.

 

There is no rosy way of looking at this.  We need him to realise the best thing for him to get the move he wants is to come back and help us do well for the remainder of the season.  Of course we need to be nice to him to get him to do this or he will remain stroppy

 

[weller54]

We need Delia!!.... 

[Redouane]

You guys don't get it. He is not "upset" because he didn't get a move, he is "upset" because he missed out in a golden opportunity. Had he joined City, he would've a starter as sané and Gabriel Jesus are injured and he would've gotten a free medal (If not more).

 

Man City will probably not be needing him in the summer. 

[ZeGuy]

43 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Fortunately, I don’t take post-criticism from people who tell the most gifted player to ever to grace the club, and the greatest asset the club has ever owned, to “feck right off”.

 

Its the emotive response of a teenager upon discovering his/her boyfriend/girlfriend has been talking to other suitors at a party. It’s the response of an emotionally-stunted individual who fears rejection and finds it laughably impossible to process the concept of alternative futures.

 

The only poison being issued here is that from the (now 120 of you) ‘‘fumin, babes”, based on nothing more than fabricated press articles.

 

So, yes, I continue to posit that were all of you to try getting on a trampoline, you’d get your legs stuck down the hole at the side, you would collectively cut your tongues while licking tin lids, and you’d all be the kind of people to require medical attention following japes with farts and fire. 

 

It isn’t the holding a different opinion to me, it’s the fact that you all hold a spectacularly dumbfück opinion.

My sides.

 

[AlloverthefloorYesNdidi]

Just now, Redouane said:

You guys don't get it. He is not "upset" because he didn't get a move, he is "upset" because he missed out in a golden opportunity. Had he joined City, he would've a starter as sané and Gabriel Jesus are injured and he would've gotten a free medal (If not more).

 

Man City will probably not be needing him in the summer. 

I get all of that.  Doesnt make him any less of a bellend

[norwichfox]

12 minutes ago, AlloverthefloorYesNdidi said:

2 minutes ago, Redouane said:

You guys don't get it. He is not "upset" because he didn't get a move, he is "upset" because he missed out in a golden opportunity. Had he joined City, he would've a starter as sané and Gabriel Jesus are injured and he would've gotten a free medal (If not more).

 

Man City will probably not be needing him in the summer. 

I get it.....he want's us to contribute £35M to pay for his medal collection additions. If only he'd been a consistently good player and Manchester Shitty had made a bid in reasonable time it probably wouldn't have been an issue at all, they'd have stumped up the money.

 

Memories seem to be very short where Mahrez is concerned and he only started to play really well this season the day he turned up with bright yellow hair, after having a crap season 2016/17 compared to what we all know he can do, he's been protesting against us for a long time. Just hope this rotten apple hasn't poisoned the whole barrel.

Edited 5 February 2018 by norwichfox

[foxfanazer]

22 minutes ago, Redouane said:

You guys don't get it. He is not "upset" because he didn't get a move, he is "upset" because he missed out in a golden opportunity. Had he joined City, he would've a starter as sané and Gabriel Jesus are injured and he would've gotten a free medal (If not more).

 

Man City will probably not be needing him in the summer. 

Oh thank you O wise one, I get it now! He’s still a dickhead 

[foxfanazer]

I’ll be relieved when he ****s off to be honest. No offence to the Algerian posters but you don’t understand our anger regarding this as you don’t have the same affiliation to the club. LCFC has been a massive part of our lives and to see someone we’ve plucked from obscurity and turned into a superstar to disrespect us in such a way leaves a real bad taste. Yes you can say he was a massive part of us winning the title but that doesn’t excuse his behaviour.

 

I don’t wish him any harm in terms of injuries but I hope he goes on to have a shit career and sits on some big clubs bench. Might look back on this sorry episode with some regret

[Guest Bob Hazels shorts]

Hypothetically,  if we had an offer for £50million and he never kicks a ball again for us and we stop paying him throughout his contact we lose £35m (about the price of 1 Slimani or 2 Mussa's) 

 

Its worth it as the repercussions if we sold out cheaply or gave in would cost far more.

 

The amount of damage accepting a below market value (set by others) for possibly out most valuable player to the pride and dignity of our owners who have to contemplate being shafted whist doing their 12,000 mile round trip would be immeasurable.

 

Virtually everyone of our first team would be up for grabs and unsettled. Pi55 taking offers, we turn down, player sulks and we sell below current value.

 

Mahrez cocked up by not including a buy out fee and he knows it hence his change of agent/ adviser

 

[jayfox26]

1 hour ago, Redouane said:

You guys don't get it. He is not "upset" because he didn't get a move, he is "upset" because he missed out in a golden opportunity. Had he joined City, he would've a starter as sané and Gabriel Jesus are injured and he would've gotten a free medal (If not more).

 

Man City will probably not be needing him in the summer. 

Then he should blame city for not sorting their transfer business earlier. We shouldn't have been forced to sell him on deadline day with no replacement just to please him and city. He's under contract and just needs to stop being a little bitch.