crisp packet Posted 25 January 2018 Share Posted 25 January 2018 https://realsport101.com/news/sports/football/leicesters-premier-league-triumph-was-the-greatest-sporting-upset-of-all-time/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluetintedspecs Posted 25 January 2018 Share Posted 25 January 2018 On 24/01/2018 at 01:43, Suzie the Fox said: hahhaha.. ok i give you that one.. WAITING Think I've logged on to the wrong sort of site 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Vega Posted 26 January 2018 Share Posted 26 January 2018 15 hours ago, crisp packet said: https://realsport101.com/news/sports/football/leicesters-premier-league-triumph-was-the-greatest-sporting-upset-of-all-time/ Nice read. Not sure about the 'and super-subs Leonardo Ulloa and Shinji Okazaki' bit though. Shinji was hardly a sub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nalis Posted 1 February 2018 Share Posted 1 February 2018 Man City fans on Blue Moon re: Mahrez 'You'll regret this when he'll sulk and cause disruption to your team' '95m is ridiculous, they should be happy we've offered 60m' First of all, Man City are a key contributor to the inflated market. 95m is a fair price as he's better than Van Dijk but not as good as Coutinho. Secondly, they could have had him for 50m in the summer and all parties would have been happy. Idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Maul Posted 1 February 2018 Share Posted 1 February 2018 We've well and truly rustled the footballing world again, everyone back to hating us. We usually back that up with a good run of form, so we'll be fine. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manini Posted 1 February 2018 Share Posted 1 February 2018 12 minutes ago, Nalis said: Man City fans on Blue Moon re: Mahrez 'You'll regret this when he'll sulk and cause disruption to your team' '95m is ridiculous, they should be happy we've offered 60m' First of all, Man City are a key contributor to the inflated market. 95m is a fair price as he's better than Van Dijk but not as good as Coutinho. Secondly, they could have had him for 50m in the summer and all parties would have been happy. Idiots. Man City fans are weird anyway. They used to be alright when they were just a normal club - but their weird hate for UEFA and anti-establishment bullshit is just plain odd. I suppose your expectations rise when your club becomes that rich so might be a contributing factor. They're like them blokes you see who win the euro millions and then want everything gold plated and leopard skin, they think they're classy but everybody else just thinks they're classless. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 1 February 2018 Share Posted 1 February 2018 16 minutes ago, Nalis said: Man City fans on Blue Moon re: Mahrez 'You'll regret this when he'll sulk and cause disruption to your team' '95m is ridiculous, they should be happy we've offered 60m' First of all, Man City are a key contributor to the inflated market. 95m is a fair price as he's better than Van Dijk but not as good as Coutinho. Secondly, they could have had him for 50m in the summer and all parties would have been happy. Idiots. They come in with a last minute bid and expected to get him we wouldn’t have had time to get any reasonable replacement in ffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Maul Posted 1 February 2018 Share Posted 1 February 2018 16 minutes ago, Manini said: Man City fans are weird anyway. They used to be alright when they were just a normal club - but their weird hate for UEFA and anti-establishment bullshit is just plain odd. I suppose your expectations rise when your club becomes that rich so might be a contributing factor. They're like them blokes you see who win the euro millions and then want everything gold plated and leopard skin, they think they're classy but everybody else just thinks they're classless. Expectations of fans can change- I remember being back in the Championship, and we would have been glad if we had signed someone who was so good that they got snapped up by one of the top clubs. Look at us now, turning down £65m offers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manini Posted 1 February 2018 Share Posted 1 February 2018 1 minute ago, Ted Maul said: Expectations of fans can change- I remember being back in the Championship, and we would have been glad if we had signed someone who was so good that they got snapped up by one of the top clubs. Look at us now, turning down £65m offers... Yeah agreed. I allude to that in my post as well. I've got Man City supporting friends and can have more of a conversation about football in general with them as opposed to Man United fans for example. Like i said they're just a bit odd. I don't think they've really come to terms yet with the fact that they went from being average to the richest club in the world seemingley overnight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koke Posted 1 February 2018 Share Posted 1 February 2018 19 minutes ago, Manini said: Man City fans are weird anyway. They used to be alright when they were just a normal club - but their weird hate for UEFA and anti-establishment bullshit is just plain odd. I suppose your expectations rise when your club becomes that rich so might be a contributing factor. They're like them blokes you see who win the euro millions and then want everything gold plated and leopard skin, they think they're classy but everybody else just thinks they're classless. They are a small club at the core. They still have an inferiority complex and think the world is against them. Can't stand Man City fans. They dont deserve all this success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifted*fox Posted 1 February 2018 Share Posted 1 February 2018 nothing to like about man city, imo. bought their success and they enjoy it in a run-down shit-tip of a ground in a shit area. they're just pissed that we didn't let them take one of our best players for their little 'collection' for nothing. **** 'em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urban.spaceman Posted 1 February 2018 Share Posted 1 February 2018 Apparently, we're greedy! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARTY_FOX Posted 1 February 2018 Share Posted 1 February 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, Manini said: Man City fans are weird anyway. They used to be alright when they were just a normal club - but their weird hate for UEFA and anti-establishment bullshit is just plain odd. I suppose your expectations rise when your club becomes that rich so might be a contributing factor. They're like them blokes you see who win the euro millions and then want everything gold plated and leopard skin, they think they're classy but everybody else just thinks they're classless. It's funny. They think we should just roll over for them because they're man city and we should be grateful they want one of our players so we should let them have him. Despite the fact they wouldn't pay the fee. Not our fault they didn't really want him is it Edited 1 February 2018 by ARTY_FOX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 1 February 2018 Share Posted 1 February 2018 2 hours ago, Nalis said: Man City fans on Blue Moon re: Mahrez 'You'll regret this when he'll sulk and cause disruption to your team' '95m is ridiculous, they should be happy we've offered 60m' First of all, Man City are a key contributor to the inflated market. 95m is a fair price as he's better than Van Dijk but not as good as Coutinho. Secondly, they could have had him for 50m in the summer and all parties would have been happy. Idiots. It misses the point. If that bid came in a week ago, we’d have probably accepted and spent a week using some of the money. As as you say as well can’t inflate the market and then moan when you get burned by the market Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lgfualol Posted 1 February 2018 Share Posted 1 February 2018 Man City: Leicester are sooooo greedy Man City: Let's buy everyone's best players with all our oil money 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post davieG Posted 2 February 2018 Popular Post Share Posted 2 February 2018 Manchester City’s Greed Has Thrown Leicester’s Season Into Chaos Simon O'Keeffe February 2, 2018 The story of a player being denied a move to a bigger team is not a new one, but as Leicester are now discovering, the fallout can be all too real. When news broke on Tuesday that Manchester City had either lodged a bid for Riyad Mahrez, or fully intended to do so, it came as a surprise. Granted, Man City’s previous pursuit of Alexis Sanchez had come to nothing but at least they had been tracking him for months, that at at least made some degree of sense. But when that deal didn’t go through, it looked as though Pep Guardiola would just have to plod on with the vast array of attacking talent available to him. Imagine, then, the surprise that Leicester must have felt when the Premier League champions-in-waiting came storming in with offer after offer, seemingly determined to take the Foxes’ star player with no prior warning before the last 48 hours or so of the January transfer window. Leicester, mindful of the fact that they had little or no time to replace the Algerian were he to be allowed to depart the club, initially resisted any form of deal before eventually relenting and agreeing to sell the 2016 PFA Player of the Year if Man City came back with a package worth £95m (subsequently lowered to £80 when Patrick Roberts was taken out of the equation). In the midst off all of this drama, Mahrez had suddenly decided that he no longer wanted to be a Leicester player and duly handed in a transfer request, just as he did last summer. He also took it upon himself to skip training on Wednesday (and has not been back since), so adamant was he that he wanted to play for Guardiola and win his second Premier League title in three years at the end of this season. And so to the take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum that Leicester offered Man City. Having barged in and disrupted the Foxes’ camp and probably threw the remainder of their season into chaos, the league leaders were set to emerge with a new player. And yet it was at this point that the same moral quandary befell them that had previously sen them pull out of the Sanchez deal. Clubs like Man City tend to speak the language of money and are quite prepared to throw it around when they need to, and yet they balked at Leicester’s demands as if they were being unreasonable. They ended up walking away from the table on deadline day, passing through the King Power like a hurricane and leaving Leicester and Mahrez to deal with the fallout, with the relationship between player and club in tatters. Man City had decided, having spend almost £60m on a French U21 international centre-back, had decided that a Premier League winner and Ballon d’Or nominee was not worth £20m more than that. The fact that Man City wanted Mahrez should not grate too much – after all, he is one of the best players in the Premier League, it stands to reason that he should be a man in demand from the upper echelons of the division. However, it’s plainly obvious that neither City nor Guardiola actually needed him. With Leroy Sane injured until March, Mahrez would effectively have been signed as cover for the German. A gilded stopgap, if you will. Could Guardiola really not have been expected to carry on with David Silva, Kevin De Bruyne, Raheem Sterling, Bernardo Silva, Brahim Diaz the soon-to-return Gabriel Jesus and, if a change of formation was required, Phil Foden, Yaya Toure and Ilkay Gundogan. Rather than offer Patrick Roberts to Leicester, couldn’t they just have recalled him from his loan spell at Celtic and used him, as was surely the long-term intention when they paid Fulham £12m for his services in 2015? Guardiola made his name off the back of bringing through promising youth products at Barcelona, prospects who would go on to conquer Europe, and yet in the past month he has shown signs of being drawn into the money-based instant gratification-hungry world of Premier League capitalism. Had the Mahrez deal gone through, Guardiola would have spent £500m in his time at the Etihad. Granted the squad was in serious need of redevelopment and investment and while he has great success with the likes of Sane and Gabriel Jesus for fees that look relatively modest in today’s market, the last-minute hunt for Mahrez just for the sake of it was crass and needless, spending just for the sake of it. It’s crossing the line between obscene and outright vulgar. And so Man City move on. They will still win the Premier League this year, will be favourites to win the FA and Carabao cups and stand a good chance of winning the Champions League. All of this would have been true without or without Mahrez so this whole ordeal has had a negligible impact on their season, bar the slight inconvenience of having an important player out of action for a few weeks. But for Leicester, as they now attempt to handle Mahrez’s continued absence from training, they now have to deal with the aftermath of daring to command a player to commit to the long-term contract he signed 18 months ago. 37 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out Foxed Posted 2 February 2018 Share Posted 2 February 2018 great piece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl the Llama Posted 2 February 2018 Share Posted 2 February 2018 I'm liking this trend of sports journalists noticing that Man City have behaved in derisive fashion and that Riyad has reacted to events petulantly. Hope when he finally shows up to the changing room he finds all these articles and a transcript of the Hislop chat adorning the walls. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chester Dontlie Posted 2 February 2018 Share Posted 2 February 2018 (edited) @davieG Thanks for the article, it sums it all up perfectly. Indeed when you think about the transfer sagas and sums of money involved in recent years football seems to be crossing that line between vulgar and obscene too often. I hope Mahrez will stop being the "victim"/prisoner he probably thinks he is and will get back to doing his job ASAP. Edited 2 February 2018 by Chester Dontlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urban.spaceman Posted 2 February 2018 Share Posted 2 February 2018 Excellent article. Leicester have done nothing wrong, and yet it's already cost us 3 points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 2 February 2018 Share Posted 2 February 2018 I can't be the only one who'd laugh if they got a couple of bad injuries against us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtmcfly Posted 2 February 2018 Share Posted 2 February 2018 2 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said: I can't be the only one who'd laugh if they got a couple of bad injuries against us. Chances of that game ending with 22 on the pitch and none down A & E? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urban.spaceman Posted 2 February 2018 Share Posted 2 February 2018 3 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said: I can't be the only one who'd laugh if they got a couple of bad injuries against us. It's almost our duty now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingsX Posted 2 February 2018 Share Posted 2 February 2018 (edited) Not only when you read articles or watch pieces like Shaka Hislop's, but especially when you read the comments underneath, you get a sense of the "football world" reaction which may surprise you. I assumed there would be a popular backlash. All the media and all the fans/fams uncritically buying the story first offered by Man City, Riyad's agent, and the lazy hot-take pundits. Yet I notice a real groundswell of support for the club's actions. Not universal, but often a solid majority of comments. Whoever was first to post here that (whatever the hurt on LCFC) this is good for football, dead on. And that point is NOT lost out in the world. Edited 2 February 2018 by KingsX 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARM1968 Posted 2 February 2018 Share Posted 2 February 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, turtmcfly said: Chances of that game ending with 22 on the pitch and none down A & E? Remote and Edited 2 February 2018 by ARM1968 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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