MAHREZ - A TYPICAL MODERN DAY PLAYER

Makes Peter Odemwingie look like Maldini, Puyol, Scholes, Totti and other one-club men.

If Leicester wanted the right price for him in todays market why should they sell to please him

What exactly do they want from him? He's won their little tin pot club a league title ffs and they stop him achieving his dreams because £60m is not enough? I hope he goes on strike and never plays for them again.

no one is gonna pay more than city offered , cant see them coming back him for him in summer ,

Spot on, so Leicester are stuck with a depreciating asset who has no interest in playing for them.

You lot are correct even Jed for once

A stopped clock....

£60 million is about 30 million over the top for me

Fantastic player, and despite his current dispute he has put it all in for them this season so far even after submitting a transfer request last summer. Certain supposedly superior players have not tried anywhere near as hard for other Premier League also-rans.

Apparently Leicester wanted £95m or player and cash equivalent. They are entitled to do that as he's under contract with no buyout clause.

What exactly do they want from him? They want him to play and honour his contract unless the price is right in their eyes. They have to find a replacement remember and that's the amount they want. They've probably shot themselves in the foot because there's every chance he won't play as well for them going forward (assuming he might get the hump or be unsettled) and they won't get anything like what City offered from anyone else but they know that's a risk and it's their choice.

£60 million for a player they developed from age 13-14 might be tough to lose and we can worry
about loyalty, but they bought him,, probably same agent now wants another pay day. how many managers
have the club had of late, how many other players bought and sold? when was the club last sold

loyalty is for fans, well some of them, we can go support citeh,

hey ho

“Out of the huge admiration and respect I hold for Leicester City I wanted to be totally honest and transparent with them and have therefore informed the club I feel now is the time for me to move on,” read the statement. “I had a good discussion with the chairman last summer and we agreed at that time I would stay for another year in order to help the club as best as I could following the transition of winning the title and in the Champions League.

Mahrez, May 2017

He signed a contract extension after that discussion with the chairman knowing top clubs across Europe wanted his signature so he must have been given assurances although what the club did next was bin the manager that won them the title then set about weakening the team. His timing was off with the transfer request but it was brought about because of Sane's injury. He cost Leicester £400,000 so when he leaves the last thing he's going to do for a club that he delivered the impossible dream for is bring them a huge payout. The club should let him go with their blessing and not sour the memory.

If he signed a new deal on the basis that he'd be allowed to leave in a year or before the extension expired then he should have insisted on a buyout clause

VVD has just gone for £75m. I can see why Leicester would like more than £60m for a player who creates and scores goals.

Why do fans expect loyalty from players? its such a ridiculous expectation in a industry dominated by money.

bit like the traitor ?

Traitor to what?

The mistake a lot of fans make is that they think that players feel the same way they do about the club when the vast majority don't and why should they?  They are just an asset to be bought and sold.

Mahrez is a wonderful player, great to watch and very effective - if City can spend £50m+ on defenders all across their back line, then history says that creative players go for a great deal more - £95m is not expensive for a player of Mahrez's quality in this marketplace

Players are happy to sign lucrative contracts and would expect them to be honoured if they broke a leg. Why can't a club and fans expect the contract to be honoured for its entire length?

I am disgusted with the mercenary modern footballer. Being a footballer is a very privileged form of employment. How us minions would love to be paid vast amounts of cash for playing. Unfortunately we can't make out we are slaves and have the luxury of millions behind us when our employers actually honour the contracts we sign!

Football has become a vast trough for bloated players and agents to gorge at will. And we are the clowns pandering to their ridiculous appetites and foraging for further t1t-bits to keep said trough generously well stocked.

Why is it just players are expected to stay at a club with less prospects ?

If Puel was offered the Man City job tomorrow he would be gone.

If the Leicester owner could afford to buy Man City he would do that.

don't sign a 5 year contract if you have one eye on the exit door. players can't have it both ways

Think Mahrez signed contract on understanding he be sold for decent money for Leicester.

Kante Drinky and the winger all gone

Mahrez bad boy somewhat unfair

A new contract means a player is on higher wages. Does not mean he is tied to a club.

Also a long contract ensures the club get a higher transfer fee should they sell him. So it protects the club as well as the player.

I think people are judging Mahrez like he's already downed tools like Sanchez did. He hasn't done that and has always done his best for Leicester AFAIK. Think it's a bit early for some of the comments on this thread. If he continues to put his head down, get on with it and do his best for Leicester, honouring his contract then he will be the exact opposite of the modern day footballer?

There should be a thread like this for Sanchez but too early for Mahrez, wait and see...

Some spectacular cant - cant for the ages - from charwell.

Most fans and clubs don't want a player to honour his contract for its entire length, that means he'll walk for nothing. If he's going to leave they'd rather he left mid-contract so that they get money in to buy a replacement.

fair enough if city had made a decent offer a couple of weeks ago but you can't expect leicester to roll over though if another club comes in at the last minute giving them no time to find a replacement. the player must understand that

Feb 3, 2018 -- 9:57AM, jed.davison wrote:

Some spectacular cant - cant for the ages - from charwell.

I believe Charwell had a similar problem when a rival paper wanted him for his tipping column. Only unlike Mahrez, where the Leicester owners are fighting tooth and nail to keep him, Charwell's employer gave him a piggyback to his new place of work

...at least, unlike the OP, he ain't a part-time arsenal fanboy.

Some people don't seem to realise that every player is for sale at any time its just a question of price.  If Leicester were offered £200 million how many would want to keep him?

The contract is just an insurance policy for both sides.

how i miss the 1980s football .. bad times now .. very bad

Hope he never plays for Leicester again.