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Mahrez to Man City shock

By woznotwos, in Transfer Talk

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NotTheMarketLeader

NotTheMarketLeader

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2 hours ago, lifted*fox said:

 

Just another side-effect of our miraculous PL title win. 

 

Our fans have become so entitled we expect every last touch from every single player to be of the highest quality, the highest standard with zero room for error. 

 

We truly have the fan-base now of an multi-trophy winning top 6 club after winning the league once. 

 

We don't allow young players time to grow - we get on their backs, they have 'attitude' problems when something doesn't go right or they post a photo of them looking dour on social media. 

 

We boo our team when we're losing at half-time. 

 

We don't allow a manager more than 6 months to make a difference. 

 

It's ****ing crap tbh.

 

Mahrez sways from hot to cold but for all of his cold moments and selfishness and poor decision making - he's provided us with hundreds of memories and we should be so lucky to see such a player again. 

Regarding your second paragraph;

 

Almost every fan only expects maximum effort and as the paying public THAT is what we are entitled to.  It really has been a shame that we haven’t had that from Mahrez since the title win.

 

Also, it’s becoming very irritating when criticism of a player means one is labelled as ‘entitled’.

 

 

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lifted*fox

lifted*fox

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5 minutes ago, NotTheMarketLeader said:

Regarding your second paragraph;

 

Almost every fan only expects maximum effort and as the paying public THAT is what we are entitled to.  It really has been a shame that we haven’t had that from Mahrez since the title win.

 

Also, it’s becoming very irritating when criticism of a player means one is labelled as ‘entitled’.

 

 

Mate, there's a difference between questioning a player occasionally based on their performance, which both me, you and anyone else is entitled to do.

 

Then there's the section of our fan-base who clearly expect nothing but perfection from every kick, pass, save, etc. 

 

Come on - you know the difference and you know my angle.

MC Prussian

MC Prussian

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2 minutes ago, lifted*fox said:

 

Mate, there's a difference between questioning a player occasionally based on their performance, which both me, you and anyone else is entitled to do.

 

Then there's the section of our fan-base who clearly expect nothing but perfection from every kick, pass, save, etc. 

 

Come on - you know the difference and you know my angle.

You're making a mountain out of a molehill.

How many of these "fans" are there really? How many of those go and watch the matches at the KP or away on a regular basis? My bet is it's a small minority.

How many of those are true fans or simply fans of certain players? Or fans who haven't heard of LCFC prior to 2016? For my part, I couldn't care less what they say, because they're biased in their own regard.

Context, context!

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AKCJ

AKCJ

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52 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Half of our fans seem to have decided he's the second coming. 

 

I should stress, I'd love him to turn out to be an outstanding find but I don't see it personally tbh. 

There's definitely a player in there somewhere.

 

I just think we'll be saying that for years. Would love to be proven wrong though.

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lifted*fox

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Just now, MC Prussian said:

How many of those are really? How many of those go and watch the matches at the KP or away on a regular basis? My bet is it's a small minority.

How many of those are true fans or simply fans of certain players? Or fans who haven't heard of LCFC prior to 2016? For my part, I couldn't care less what they say, because they're biased in their own regard.

Context, context!

 

it's on here every match thread, every player thread, every transfer thread.

 

people over-analysing, over-criticising, etc.

 

you must see it? 

 

it's the same on TV - pundits discussing every last kick in minute detail.

 

I'm not the only person who thinks it's utterly pathetic to expect footballers to make the right decision every single time, make a perfect tackle every time, pick the perfect pass every time. 

 

it's ruining football tbh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MC Prussian

MC Prussian

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1 hour ago, les-tah said:

Ultimately in losing Mahrez we need a player to assist +10 and score +10 in the league next season.

 

There is no player currently that is capable of that so i expect us to pay big for someone, we have to be realistic and assume the club already realize this.

 

If we are spending £20 million on a fullback we have to assume we are going to spend big on a Mahrez replacement.

 

What we need more than anything is a solid, reliable defense and a manager who knows what he wants and how he gets it.

We've shipped 60 goals against last season, that's criminal. Twenty less than that next season and we should be cruising with what we've got.

 

Once the back four (and our No.1 goalkeeper) is sorted, we should be able to cope better with a lack of input from right midfield.

I'm confident we're able to bring somebody in who'll surprise all of us. After all, the management and recruitment department have had about two years looking for somebody new...

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AKCJ

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12 minutes ago, NotTheMarketLeader said:

It really has been a shame that we haven’t had that from Mahrez since the title win.

This is such a myth.

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MC Prussian

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2 minutes ago, lifted*fox said:

 

it's on here every match thread, every player thread, every transfer thread.

 

people over-analysing, over-criticising, etc.

 

you must see it? 

 

it's the same on TV - pundits discussing every last kick in minute detail.

 

I'm not the only person who thinks it's utterly pathetic to expect footballers to make the right decision every single time, make a perfect tackle every time, pick the perfect pass every time. 

 

it's ruining football tbh.

It's been like this on here for years! lol

 

Everything else you mentioned is a simple and logical byproduct of today's Premier League media frenzy.

 

You can always switch off if you don't like it - or at least mute the sound on TV.

 

lifted*fox

lifted*fox

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1 minute ago, AKCJ said:

This is such a myth.

 

totally. people completely forget how shite the rest of the team was during his poor patches.

 

it doesn't excuse the strop he's thrown but he can't be expected to be a one man miracle worker in a team that was severely out of form. 

RoyFox

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4 hours ago, Gerard said:

 

That really surprised me. 

 

It's not like there is a lot of strength in those legs so his technique for striking a ball must be phenomenal.

When I first saw this from the guys at Statsbomb (run by the very smart Ted Knutson) it did surprise. The best analogy is Mahrez has a shot like a perfect ‘golf swing’, eg huge back lift and follow through, combined with striking the ball on the sweet spot consistently. Despite his legs being like twigs, he undoubtably has a lot of flexibility (which you can see on replays of his shots).

les-tah

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14 minutes ago, MC Prussian said:

What we need more than anything is a solid, reliable defense and a manager who knows what he wants and how he gets it.

We've shipped 60 goals against last season, that's criminal. Twenty less than that next season and we should be cruising with what we've got.

 

Once the back four (and our No.1 goalkeeper) is sorted, we should be able to cope better with a lack of input from right midfield.

I'm confident we're able to bring somebody in who'll surprise all of us. After all, the management and recruitment department have had about two years looking for somebody new...

i do agree, however all the top teams have a 'Mahrez' type player and if we fail to comply with that we could see us drop down the table regardless of how strong the defense is. There is very fine margins between winning/losing games and Mahrez's ability to change that pushed us up the table.

 

 

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Ric Flair

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25 minutes ago, MC Prussian said:

What we need more than anything is a solid, reliable defense and a manager who knows what he wants and how he gets it.

We've shipped 60 goals against last season, that's criminal. Twenty less than that next season and we should be cruising with what we've got.

 

Once the back four (and our No.1 goalkeeper) is sorted, we should be able to cope better with a lack of input from right midfield.

I'm confident we're able to bring somebody in who'll surprise all of us. After all, the management and recruitment department have had about two years looking for somebody new...

Yes we do, but if we have a reliable and solid defence but no creativity we'll be pinching games 1-0 and there'd be plenty of negativity around the place. We need a blend of both to succeed as we know what this place is like when we seldom score goals.

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LCFC_Oak

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When no-one else in the team can produce any creative threat - it's a pretty easy defensive tactic to double/triple mark Mahrez.

 

In a team like Man City you can't defend like this.... he'll do well.

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Almo-Fox

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The agreement of City with Jorginho (since one month and a half ago when Joao Santos was reunited with Txiki in Manchester) and Mahrez (in January they had it too) is total. Few millions separate the agreements with Napoli and Leicester but seems that both will be done next days.

NewquayFox

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Would prefer a straight cash deal without these 2/3 string players being used as a bargaining chip, rumours of £65 million deal plus add ons if they win the Champions league with Mahrez, bit of a gamble for us looking how their form dropped a bit in the last 3rd of the season.... :scarf:

Fox1norfolk

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45 minutes ago, LCFC_Oak said:

When no-one else in the team can produce any creative threat - it's a pretty easy defensive tactic to double/triple mark Mahrez.

 

In a team like Man City you can't defend like this.... he'll do well.

That's assuming he gets plenty of time on the pitch, just a couple of low par performances in a team of Man C stars and Pep would have no qualms about him having long and difficult time bench warming and finding it extremely difficult to get back in favour, e.g. Mr Drinkwater, 

However, I'm sure Marez and his advisers are aware of this possibility as one newspaper reports he his being brought in to strengthen the depth of players, basically an expensive squad player.

MC Prussian

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1 hour ago, Ric Flair said:

Yes we do, but if we have a reliable and solid defence but no creativity we'll be pinching games 1-0 and there'd be plenty of negativity around the place. We need a blend of both to succeed as we know what this place is like when we seldom score goals.

For some reason, whenever I see you post in this thread, I have the strange feeling you always come to the conclusion that our creativity level drops to 0 once Mahrez is gone.

:D

 

Like I've said before, we will get a very good right midfielder in and other players such as Silva, Iborra, Albrighton, Gray, Diabaté and Ndidi will have to add a bit more to the overall goals and assists haul next season and things won't look as bleak as you're making them out to be.

Iheanacho has shown he can play well in a No. 9 role behind or even next to Vardy, so there's promise.

And hopefully, we'll get another central (attacking) midfielder in to ease the pressure. 

 

Having an overlapping right-back like Pereira should help in that regard.

Now we need one on the left, too. I'd suggest Jérôme Roussillon.

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Tielemans63

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I think he'll be amazing for City. Sadly. 

 

With all those good players around him I think we'll see just what a great player he is.

 

We have big problems when he does go because pretty much our only source of creativity goes out the door with him.

Bluearmyfox28

Bluearmyfox28

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21 minutes ago, Paddy. said:

I think he'll be amazing for City. Sadly. 

 

With all those good players around him I think we'll see just what a great player he is.

 

We have big problems when he does go because pretty much our only source of creativity goes out the door with him.

For me personally trying to find some light out of the dark tunnel is, out of the top 6 if I personally could chose for Mahrez to sign for a top 6 club I would want him playing under Pep. 

 

I think after all Riyad has done for us & putting bitterness aside, Riyad deserves to play under someone of Pep’s quality & I personally, will cheer him on every time I see him play. (Other than against us of course.)

 

Best of luck Riyad & thank you for everything you’ve done for this club.

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