Mahrez doing a Dembele, didn't attend Leicester practice and last match, club has no idea where he is and can't contact him. This business gets more disgusting by the minute.
Probably wants them to do a transfer for the summer and make them suffer now, little b****. Probably driven by his agent.
There are 2 sides. Alledgedly the Leicester Town boss promised him not once but twice that he could do a transfer when he plays his all out. He did and they put a price tag of 120 or 130 something million that Man City won't budge. I am a Mahrez fan so I support him all the way.
There is more to the story..... Leicester letting people like Drinkwater and Kante go to Chelsea when Mahrez wanted to go first. I think Leicester being a party pooper here too. Stay tuned. Also fellow country man Slimani was gotten rid of. Players think of Leicester as an underdog who won the ship but are just 8-12 seeders normally. Not much of a champion without Ranieri and with him as well. I think I did not select him once this season in Fantasy, although I wanted to on several occasions.
Didn't know that, gotta look up. Still, these guys sign multi-year deals and then b**** months after signing the deals or extensions, it's kindergarten.
Yeah, hope it gets resolved. I agree, players should not do it but I can understand it more coming from a guy who has done a lot for Leicester than from Ousmane who just had a decent season in Dortmund. The friggin English tabloid media feeds off this ish like blood suckers...... https://www.transfermarkt.de/mahrez...ihn-uns-nicht-leisten-ldquo-/view/news/299953 German source, you can read it.
Mahrez comes off as one single emotional and sensitive player, not tough like Vardy. Shrink is needed.
I gotta disagree man. There's a lot behind the scenes that we never hear about and the player almost always ends up looking worse than the club. I think what Daywalker wrote is more likely Leicester were able to convince Vardy and Mahrez to stay on after they lost Kante and then Drinkwater. It's more likely than not that Mahrez was promised a move if he stayed for a couple more transfer windows, etc. They probably offered a raise with a new contract while he bided his time at Leicester. They know that they can't convince a rising star to stay with them a few more seasons until they are ready to sell him, without them offering him a higher wage and adding years to his contract because they don't want him to leave on a free. Fans can't be mad at the player for wanting to leave when he has a contract and a buy out clause for another team to trigger and a team wants to pay for him AND also be mad at the player if he waits it out and decides to leave on a free. When the player waits it out and decides to leave on a free, the fans will get mad that he is being selfish and leaving the club with nothing after they've (in a lot of cases) paid for his services from another club. It's a no-win situation for players and I can definitely sympathize with them. The clubs treat it like a dirty business(but do so quietly) and the players are doing the same breh (unfortunately the club will always have better pr spin).
Good piece by Sid Lowe here http://www.espn.com/soccer/spanish-...er-window-shows-players-with-no-power?src=com
Mahrez Is not completely at fault on this. He was verbally promised by both Raineri and LC that they want him to give them one year for CL after winning the league. They told him after that he will be allowed to leave. This has been well documented. Since then they have fired two managers and reneged on their promise several times. Each time an offer comes they ask for 20-30m more to drive the offer away. LC is getting a lot of flak for this. I generally do not support players in these kind of situations but if you have made a promise to someone, ,then you need to keep it. Do not think than other players are not taking notice of this. LC is going to have a hard time attracting good players the way they have handled Mahrez situation. Actually lets be honest,, it is unlikely any big name players will want to go there anyways. The mistake Mahrez made was signing that contract without making sure that they put in a release clause. He took their word for it. ALWAYS get it in writing!
Tough like Vardy? This is how tough he was.... He agreed to sign with Arsenal. Personal terms were agreed upon. The 20M buyout clause on his contract was activated. He came to Arsenal ground to sign and have the medical. But then he and his wife freaked out after all the social media outburst from the LCFC fans. So he literally walked out of the Arsenal grounds. Tough lol....
Was talking otherwise about Riyad's mental mindset and about the fact his stamina usually lasted about 77 minutes and he would be substituted. but I should be glad you left the Lin and Mergady hunting grounds and got here for a change of scenery. The more the merrier.
After 3 losses, Burnley kept a draw and are 7th. 7 behind Arsenal. Arsenal seems to recover just fine.
What a 2nd half and final 10 minutes in Liverpool vs Tottenham. A GOY candidate by Wanyama. Another special strike by Salah. Goal #100 for Harry Kane (He's one of Arsenal's own ) How there is still an argument against VAR in the premiership is a surprise to me. An incompetent ref and linesman who would have been helped with the ability to us VAR.
Glad to have some potent offense in the knockout phase of the C league this year. City, Spurs and Pool.
That lines judge better get a police escort out of town... what an embarrassment. Liverpool absolutely robbed by referee incompetence.
I think he has does his hair too much, has to humble himself and make the right decisions instead of flashy play. Patience.
Clement had some really worrying statements about Sanches, think we can end this and have to sell him. http://www.espnfc.com/swansea-city/...-far-more-damaged-than-i-thought-paul-clement 1) Statement on Sanches' feelings when joining Swansea: "He wasn't so keen initially. He thought he was going to go to Man United, Chelsea or Paris Saint-Germain." Makes him sound like a delusional idiot who still thinks every club in the world wants him. 2) Mentality and confidence: "When he came, he was far more damaged than I thought. It was really sad. He was a boy who had almost got the weight of the world on his shoulders." "In training, when that pressure is not there, he was the best player. He could do things no one else could do. He's got power, can go past people, got a shot on him. But then in games, I looked at the choices he was making, shooting from 45 yards on the angle, and he kept making those mistakes." 3) Teammates and his bad approach to the game: "He had a desire to please and a desire to prove everybody wrong. He got in a vicious cycle of poor choices. The other players were saying, 'He's playing like that and you're not picking me,' so it became difficult to pick him."
