The "do they mean us?" thread pt 3

[Out Foxed]

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Ahhh yes, 3 losses in a row and a unconvincing win over bottom of the football league, we're back baby #lcfc

lmao

[KingsX]

5 hours ago, StanSP said:

We've turned our season around

 

 

“We need to have a little talk if you think I wrote that horseshit”

[Fox92]

An absolute pleasure watching him here, sometimes can't believe he played for us.

 

 

[Paninistickers]

10 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

An absolute pleasure watching him here, sometimes can't believe he played for us.

 

 

Funny, I wouldn't have thought he'd had more apps for Man city than us. 

 

I'm rather smug that I enjoyed every moment of his time with us. I understood his desire to leave, tolerated his occasional childishness (tho the level if that petulance has been put in perspective now by that cnut fofana)  and never let that cloud my enjoyment of his football. Simply the most graceful, most skilful player to ever play for us, by an absolute mile

[TJB-fox]

33 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

An absolute pleasure watching him here, sometimes can't believe he played for us.

 

 

That’s outrageous but also completely believable. He’s SO underrated by football fans too. He’s utter quality. One of the best wingers in the world. 

Edited 9 January 2023 by TJB-fox

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

I think Mahrez has the best first touch in world football, no exaggeration, float one over 50 yards over his head and it'll stick to his left peg like glue if he wants it to. Majestic. 

[Finnegan]

1 hour ago, TJB-fox said:

That’s outrageous but also completely believable. He’s SO underrated by football fans too. He’s utter quality. One of the best wingers in the world. 

 

It's mad. Leicester fans never fully appreciated him and neither do Man City fans. Even his own supporters perpetually under rate him. He's absurd. 

 

Christ, remember when Algeria fans would come on here and tell us Sofiane Ferghouli (sp?) was better than him? 

 

5 minutes ago, Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot said:

I think Mahrez has the best first touch in world football, no exaggeration, float one over 50 yards over his head and it'll stick to his left peg like glue if he wants it to. Majestic. 

 

He 100% does. There might be better dribbles, passers, finishers, whatever. But he absolutely has the best first touch in the sport and always has. 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Always bugs me when insane wingers like Mahrez are essentially downplayed by simpletons as someone you can just "show them on their weaker foot" because "you know what they're gonna do" – Robben always got it n all. If it was that easy to stop they wouldn't be consistently competing at the highest possible level for such sustained periods.

[Stadt]

Hope he gets 100 PL goals, on 79 atm. He's 32 next month so depends on how long he sticks around at Man City for. I think he'll just fall short unfortunately.

[ARTY_FOX]

11 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Always bugs me when insane wingers like Mahrez are essentially downplayed by simpletons as someone you can just "show them on their weaker foot" because "you know what they're gonna do" – Robben always got it n all. If it was that easy to stop they wouldn't be consistently competing at the highest possible level for such sustained periods.

Otamendi showed him on his week foot and we know how that ended. 

[coolhandfox]

4 hours ago, Stadt said:

Hope he gets 100 PL goals, on 79 atm. He's 32 next month so depends on how long he sticks around at Man City for. I think he'll just fall short unfortunately.

Was thinking the same, he probably needs another couple of seasons after this one.

 

The romantic in me would love him to come back for his swansong and play a season or 2 here, but never going to happen.

 

If we could have built a better team abound him and Vardy, we would have had more trophies in the bank.

 

 

[Stadt]

41 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

Was thinking the same, he probably needs another couple of seasons after this one.

 

The romantic in me would love him to come back for his swansong and play a season or 2 here, but never going to happen.

 

If we could have built a better team abound him and Vardy, we would have had more trophies in the bank.

 

 

Mahrez was too good to keep hold of, crucially he was 27 by the time he left too so he absolutely had to get his big move by then. At 28 or 29 no elite club is dropping £60m on him.

 

We managed to get an additional year out of him, we never expected that 

[MattFox]

1 hour ago, coolhandfox said:

Was thinking the same, he probably needs another couple of seasons after this one.

 

The romantic in me would love him to come back for his swansong and play a season or 2 here, but never going to happen.

 

If we could have built a better team abound him and Vardy, we would have had more trophies in the bank.

 

 

If we’d kept Kante i’m pretty confident we’d have pushed high up the table the season after we won the title.

 

Although Ranieri did lose the plot behind the scenes 

[TJB-fox]

21 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

It's mad. Leicester fans never fully appreciated him and neither do Man City fans. Even his own supporters perpetually under rate him. He's absurd. 

 

Christ, remember when Algeria fans would come on here and tell us Sofiane Ferghouli (sp?) was better than him? 

 

 

He 100% does. There might be better dribbles, passers, finishers, whatever. But he absolutely has the best first touch in the sport and always has. 

It’s crazy as soon as you see the centre mid open his body up to switch it out to Mahrez on the right, you know exactly what’s coming. Deftest touch you’ve ever seen and bang, straight at the full back. 
 

Then, feint inside or cut onto his right foot, equally as effective. 
 

He’s ****ing quality. One random bit of Mahrez skill I enjoyed on Sunday v Chelsea is when he was 1v1 with Chelsea’s young lad Hall. Mahrez just lured him in by the touch line, a few close touches and bang went by him. No pace needed, just impeccable ball control and timing

[RonnieTodger]

Will always love Mahrez. The best we’ll ever see.  

[filbertway]

Still not sure how he wasn't picked up by anyone before us. I remember watching him for us in the championship and had never seen anything like it in a Leicester shirt, the first time you see his touch, "that must have been a fluke". Best first touch in the game.

 

My favourite goal will always be the one against Man City at their gaff in 15/16, always the one that sticks out in my mind.

 

[goose2010]

Absolutely massive in Vermont (I think it's Vermont anyway?!)

[tylesta]

1 hour ago, filbertway said:

Still not sure how he wasn't picked up by anyone before us. I remember watching him for us in the championship and had never seen anything like it in a Leicester shirt, the first time you see his touch, "that must have been a fluke". Best first touch in the game.

 

My favourite goal will always be the one against Man City at their gaff in 15/16, always the one that sticks out in my mind.

 

His Blackpool goal will always be special 

[filbertway]

11 minutes ago, tylesta said:

His Blackpool goal will always be special 

That Blackpool goal and the Chelsea ones are the other 2 that come immediately to mind

 

 

I think the Blackpool goal was when I started telling mates we might have a special player on our hands.

Edited 10 January 2023 by filbertway

[Foxdiamond]

2 hours ago, RonnieTodger said:

Will always love Mahrez. The best we’ll ever see.  

He did enough and was here long enough to be regarded as one of our greats.

[Foxdiamond]

2 hours ago, filbertway said:

Still not sure how he wasn't picked up by anyone before us. I remember watching him for us in the championship and had never seen anything like it in a Leicester shirt, the first time you see his touch, "that must have been a fluke". Best first touch in the game.

 

My favourite goal will always be the one against Man City at their gaff in 15/16, always the one that sticks out in my mind.

 

Terrific goal. The equaliser home to Spurs was tasty too.

[Stadt]

3 hours ago, goose2010 said:

Absolutely massive in Vermont (I think it's Vermont anyway?!)

There's a Leicester in Vermont

[SemperEadem]

4 minutes ago, Stadt said:

There's a Leicester in Vermont

Thats very you.

[kenny]

2 hours ago, filbertway said:

That Blackpool goal and the Chelsea ones are the other 2 that come immediately to mind

 

 

I think the Blackpool goal was when I started telling mates we might have a special player on our hands.

That assist against Man City where he laid off a long ball from Fuchs first time into Vardy's run through is goal of the season stuff. Unfortunately it always goes to the long range strikes when skill like that is rarely seen whereas long range strikes happen most weekends.

 

 

[foxfanazer]

1 minute ago, kenny said:

That assist against Man City where he laid off a long ball from Fuchs first time into Vardy's run through is goal of the season stuff. Unfortunately it always goes to the long range strikes when skill like that is rarely seen whereas long range strikes happen most weekends.

 

 

One of the best passes I've ever seen. Filthy!