Dickov22 Posted 29 December 2016 Posted 29 December 2016 17 hours ago, chapero82 said: Izzett was great too and more consistent Izzet was class but nowhere near the level Mahrez can be. Only one we've had close would be Keith Weller and guess what... sometimes he'd 'go missing in games too. Flair players tend to.
chapero82 Posted 29 December 2016 Posted 29 December 2016 49 minutes ago, Dickov22 said: Izzet was class but nowhere near the level Mahrez can be. Only one we've had close would be Keith Weller and guess what... sometimes he'd 'go missing in games too. Flair players tend to. Riyad has been found out at the moment good players find a way out if it he hasn't
MattCan Posted 29 December 2016 Posted 29 December 2016 6 hours ago, chapero82 said: Riyad has been found out at the moment good players find a way out if it he hasn't Yeah, he is not a good player. Good point. Sell him.
fuchsntf Posted 29 December 2016 Posted 29 December 2016 Sell the fans who want to see him go... Science, will be gratefull to study their brains........
MattCan Posted 29 December 2016 Posted 29 December 2016 39 minutes ago, fuchsntf said: Sell the fans who want to see him go... Science, will be gratefull to study their brains........ Who would want to buy them? Gooners? Naaah ...
Matt Posted 30 December 2016 Posted 30 December 2016 Mahrez pisses all over Izzet when on form. 'When' being the crucial word in the statement. Izzet was far more consistant and at the moment it's the inconsistancies and lack of interest demeanor (I think that's just Mahrez's laid back attitude, but it's an easy thing to throw at him in this current form) hanging over Mahrez.
Buzzell Posted 30 December 2016 Posted 30 December 2016 Mahrez has the potential to become world class. Izzet was nowhere near that.
Matt Posted 30 December 2016 Posted 30 December 2016 13 minutes ago, buzzer_b said: Mahrez has the potential to become world class. Izzet was nowhere near that. If he becomes consistent. Look he's the best player i've seen play for Leicester, I love him, but consistency is the key, without the consistency he won't play for a big club that can go right out his head, he may go to a big club but he would only be back up, squad player. Also people are saying he's struggling because opposistion put players on him....world class players combat that, get over it, find ways round it. You could argue they have better players around them to help them but even so he should be finding ways round this issue if he is to progress to the next level. He's 25, soon to be 26, he needs to be hitting that consistency now if he has any chance of becoming world class, pronto, otherwise that ship may have already sailed.
ithuriel Posted 30 December 2016 Posted 30 December 2016 What is with the Izzet, Mahrez thing? Izzet was a class attacking midfield player at Prem level. Mahrez is a class winger at Prem level. Mahrez is patchy this season, at times he looks switched off, other times he tries too much instead of passing, still a quality player but sometimes his head really is not in the game for what ever reasons on those days.
Buzzell Posted 30 December 2016 Posted 30 December 2016 27 minutes ago, Matt said: If he becomes consistent. Look he's the best player i've seen play for Leicester, I love him, but consistency is the key, without the consistency he won't play for a big club that can go right out his head, he may go to a big club but he would only be back up, squad player. Also people are saying he's struggling because opposistion put players on him....world class players combat that, get over it, find ways round it. You could argue they have better players around them to help them but even so he should be finding ways round this issue if he is to progress to the next level. He's 25, soon to be 26, he needs to be hitting that consistency now if he has any chance of becoming world class, pronto, otherwise that ship may have already sailed. That's why I put 'has'. Izzet was consistently good but didn't have the potential to be one of the best players in the league nevermind the world. He was a great PL player to be fair to him. Mahrez needs to find his form and a different style of play because people have worked him out. Sticking 2/3 players on him nullify his game but hopefully that will bring the best out him. World class players always find a way to perform no matter what's put in front of them.
Buzzell Posted 30 December 2016 Posted 30 December 2016 Tbf this whole Izzet/Mahrez dispute is bogus. I mean they play in complete different positions and they are completely different players. Can't really compair the two.
Guest the fox Posted 31 December 2016 Posted 31 December 2016 So after Claudio said he was not training hard enough, now he is telling him that he is an intelligent player and should look up to Ronaldo and messi. I hope this Passive-aggressive Claudio can kick him up to gear.
Raj Posted 31 December 2016 Posted 31 December 2016 Hope this is the critisism that gets him into gear. Players need to be managed in different ways I just hope he realises how muchbhes let himself down and plays to what we know he is capable of. If he doesn't care create that form I'm afraid he will in the New Year,but for a different club.
Legend_in_blue Posted 31 December 2016 Posted 31 December 2016 Part of the reason for his decline is that it is way too easy for opposition players to mark him out of the game because they know exactly where he will play in our rigid 442 setup. Put him anywhere across the midfield in an attacking sense and let him roam about - this would make it far more difficult to mark him out of games. At present he's far too static when he receives the ball and doesn't have any options, 3 men close him down and nothing happens.
lifted*fox Posted 31 December 2016 Posted 31 December 2016 Looked pissed off when he came off but was rightly taken off just in time in my opinion. He wasn't affecting the game at all in the second half and his lack of commitment to win the ball was keeping Slimani out of the game and making it easy for West Ham to get the ball back. He has to understand why he was taken off and it was to preserve the result. We would have conceded if Okazaki and then Ulloa hadn't come on when they did.
Guest the fox Posted 31 December 2016 Posted 31 December 2016 9 minutes ago, DanNDH88 said: He was absolute wank today. Zero effort. He was quite today. But not bad. He could've scored two goals. It seemed like the west ham players played extra hard against him and the ref let is happen.
Freeman's Wharfer Posted 31 December 2016 Posted 31 December 2016 Riyad's just never worked through the middle. Pearson tried it on occasion and it's always ended with him back out on the wing. The key to Mahrez is getting him on the ball and it almost seems like he needs that wide starting position to do so - just wasn't in it today at all.
MrSpaM Posted 31 December 2016 Posted 31 December 2016 Starting to notice he's seriously lacking any pace atm
StriderHiryu Posted 31 December 2016 Posted 31 December 2016 28 minutes ago, DanNDH88 said: He was absolute wank today. Zero effort. In the first half (especially the first 30) he looked very good. Could have scored two and put in some threatening balls. I thought he showed promise! Second half he faded, but then as a team we dropped back and tried to close the game out, hence him suffering. He looked frustrated when coming off, but I like that it means he wasn't happy with how things ended up today. I'd try him again in this system, there was potential in it. With Ndidi coming into the team, it could help him a lot. Riyad is inconsistent, but he doesn't get the best service from our team. From a technical stand point he is head and shoulders our best player, in fact I would go as far as saying he's our best technical player in my lifetime (last 30 years)! We aren't a possession team so don't have it that much and can't give it to Mahrez as much he would like. Best comparison I can think of is Gareth Bale at Spurs who they ended up building the team around. Not saying we should do that with Mahrez, but I am saying that in terms of quality he is superb. I remember seeing Juninho play against us in the Cup Final in the 90's and thinking "I wish Leicester had a player like that." Now we do have a player like that, but we slate him!
volpeazzurro Posted 31 December 2016 Posted 31 December 2016 He appeared knackered when he came off today and was puffing and panting at times in the first. Perhaps if he turned up to training on time and worked a bit harder he'd get a bit fitter.
sdb Posted 31 December 2016 Posted 31 December 2016 He wasn't bad but I'd struggle to say he's giving 100% at the moment.
lifted*fox Posted 31 December 2016 Posted 31 December 2016 I still can't believe he turns up at the last minute / late all the time. I saw an interview with Vardy on Soccer AM this morning and he joked about it. Sends out a poor message IMO, and I find it weird that he isn't pulled up more harshly on it.
Guest Mickyblueeyes Posted 31 December 2016 Posted 31 December 2016 He looked knackered at times today. I am saying this as an excuse but he has just had his second baby and his first is not that much older. As a father of three and having had two of them very close to one another, it really is a two person job during the night to keep them safe and happy. A lack of sleep maybe the cause of this fatigue.
dedlock Posted 31 December 2016 Posted 31 December 2016 In the first 30 minutes West Ham struggled to cope with our change from 4-4-2 , Mahrez shone as did Gray. He was allowed more freedom than the FB and a.n.other doubling up. The number 10 role may suit him in the future but he still has much to learn. His substitution was more about 2 games in 48 hours
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