He's trying so hard.. been great past 10 mins.
Riyad Mahrez | Signed new contract at Leicester City
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very good performance but what an utterly retarded decision to go for the spectacular in that situation.....
Very impressed with his work rate today, we really need to be in for him come the summer.
How much would be cost? I'd say £40m minimum
Carried Leicester forward in the chase for a winner those last 20 minutes or so. Absolutely magnificent player, even if that overhead kick attempt was a bit misguided.
I can see him going to City, they need a right wing player.
So hard to sign truly great players nowadays with Madrid, Bayern and Barca hovering everyone up. Here is one that i doubt they're gonna be interested in, it'd be foolish for us not to get him in. Mahre7 
Sort of what I expected Januzaj to become after 2013. Not the quickest but a tricky dribbler capable of magic.
lets be realistic though, they just spent 100m on Sterling and KDB, if he's going to go somewhere he's going to want to be first choice in addition to the money.
Id imagine ourselves and arsenal/chelsea would potentially be the frontrunners in the prem.
I have the same feeling too. Guardiola likes players with good technique. So he is going to target players like Mahrez, Gundogan, Laporte, etc. Also he will try to make a big signing like Pogba. However, I think he will go to Madrid.
I can see a lot of players going out and signing new players over two transfer windows to have something like this:
Hart
Aurier - Otamendi - Laporte - Rodriguez
Gundogan - Xhaka
Mahrez - De Bruyne - Sterling
Aguero
Aurier - Otamendi - Laporte - Rodriguez
Gundogan - Xhaka
Mahrez - De Bruyne - Sterling
Aguero
Very good team there but it lacks a bit of balance in midfield.They need some energy and legs in there like Fernandinho. Even if Pep isn't a fan of ball-winners/destroyers, they are necessary in the prem. Teams will out-run or outwork them. I can also see them signing a new striker since Aguero is unreliable due to injuries.
25 goals / assists in 2211 minutes. A goal / assist every 88.44 minutes.
Leicester have already stated they wouldn't stop him if he wanted to leave so I guess it's game on come summer. I hope we attempt to get him. That right wing spot needs cementing down. Then Lingard can step in for when he needs a rest
I can't think of many better RW than him who would be available, not to mention we might be able pick him up for £30m, which is cheap in todays market.
Like him a lot but honestly, you can never tell until they put on the red shirt. It weighs heavier than any in this country. People think they can play at a big club like Utd until they go on tour like to Asia or run out for the first time at OT. The difference is like night and day, and only a selective few of players can express themselves in that arena.
Silva?
luckily they can't buy all those players in one summer
Just waitluckily they can't buy all those players in one summer
The more I think about signing Mahrez the more sense it makes. The right is the most obvious position we lack quality in my opinion and there's really not that many attainable right mids about. With Martial on the left offering pace and power, Mahrez on the right can offer finesse and technique. Pop Zlatan in the middle and that's a world class front line.
Sign him up! Speed, creativity and ability to score...what's not to like?
Rashford? Or have you been speaking to my doctor...
He's been in the team so long that he's now blasé for FM fans.
Only half joking.
Signing world class forwards on their last legs shouldn't be an option at this point anymore. Come to think of it, world class players looking for a retirement home in general shouldn't come. As Falcao and Schweinsteiger has shown us.
Rashford has been a revelation and I agree we don't want to halt his progression. But chances are he will drop off and having a world class striker to learn from for a couple of years would be good for him IMO.
If Mahrez does leave we must surely be the ones in for him as far as English clubs are concerned, we are desperate for a right sided player who makes goals for fun and has the technique and touch that Zidane would approve of. The fact that Ranieri says he would not stop him leaving for a big club (or be it for a no doubt huge fee) I'd wager we'd be the last team in for him as I doubt he gives Ed a full on wood, more of a semi I'd say compared to his usual non achievable targets.
I'd definitely want a player like him over Anderson etc. I would offer Leicester Valencia and 30m.
I'd definitely want a player like him over Anderson etc. I would offer Leicester Valencia and 30m.
Alan Brazil this morning:
"Why can't Mahrez get in the France squad?"
Mark Schwarzer: "He's Algerian"
"Why can't Mahrez get in the France squad?"
Mark Schwarzer: "He's Algerian"
Alan Brazil is a bellendYou'd offer them our first choice right back? Why?
He's born and raised in France. No less French than Pogba, Benzema or any Frenchman with foreign ancestry.
He couldn't even dream of a French NT future when he chose Algeria at 24 one year ago.
Not quite in the grand schemes of football (Bale, Ronaldo, Benzema say "hi") but it does seem so compared to what we've had the last few seasons!
Comes down to the old "define world class" cliché I suppose.
Mahrez would be great.
Griezmann, Gundogan, Zlatan too.
I am hoping for at least 5 top class first team additions.
Griezmann, Gundogan, Zlatan too.
I am hoping for at least 5 top class first team additions.
A bit too much to asked for a single transfer window. But hopefully.
Sign him up
A bit too much in terms of getting too many new starters or transfer fees? Because Zlatan would be a free transfer (granted he will have high wages and signing fee), Gundogan's fee shouldn't be much because he only has 1 year on his deal, and Mahrez should be 40 million pounds max (or we should walk away). Griezmann will be the only player who will be really expensive (probably his buyout clause which is supposed to be 60 million pounds if it hasn't changed).
Would make too much sense to sign. I'm sure we'll ignore him and go for Bale or Neymar only to fail and get them new fat contracts. And then end up paying 40 mill for the flop that would be Anderson 2.0
We hypothetically could and should try to sign him but I don't know why he would leave before playing for LC in the Champions League. Even double so if they win the league this season. In fact I'll even go further and say he'd be stupid to leave if they enter the CL as league winners.
It'd be hard for him to turn down a 5 year £100,000 a week deal. You'd think he (and Vardy/Kante) want to have a go at the CL with Leicester before leaving, but they could have a shite season next time around and never have a chance at getting that kind of contract every again.
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