Riyad Mahrez

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blueballs84 said:
I Know I'll get hammered for this and I'll preface by saying that I'll be happy to have Mahrez.

But can you imagine having a front 3 of:

Martial Jesus Sane

For the next 10 yrs. Martial has bucket loads of talent and I think Pep could cure the problems with his workrate and application. I know it's an unpopular opinion but I think there's some people here whose opinion is tainted by who he plays for. If they are dumb enough to try and offload a player of his quality and age to buy another 30 yr old big name has been, we should be all over it. And yes, tell me I have rocks in my head and that I'm an idiot who knows nothing about football but I'd have Martial over Mahrez. Having said that, I'll hardly be disappointed if we get Mahrez.
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You're overlooking the small issue that there's almost no chance United would ever even consider selling us Martial.
 
MarsLlama said:
You're overlooking the small issue that there's almost no chance United would ever even consider selling us Martial.
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I don't know about that. I mean I know what you are saying but Liverpool sold us Sterling the year after we pipped them to the title, Chelsea sold Matic to United last year, Arsenal did the Sanchez-Mkitharayan deal, United sold us Tevez a few years ago now. I do understand it's a bit of a long shot, but there's been a lot of deals between premier league rivals in recent history and Mourinho in particular has shown he is willing to sell to direct rivals if the price is right.

I do acknowledge it's a long shot but i think we could test the waters and see what happens.
 
blueballs84 said:
I don't know about that. I mean I know what you are saying but Liverpool sold us Sterling the year after we pipped them to the title, Chelsea sold Matic to United last year, Arsenal did the Sanchez-Mkitharayan deal, United sold us Tevez a few years ago now. I do understand it's a bit of a long shot, but there's been a lot of deals between premier league rivals in recent history and Mourinho in particular has shown he is willing to sell to direct rivals if the price is right.

I do acknowledge it's a long shot but i think we could test the waters and see what happens.
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Ahem!
 
blueballs84 said:
I don't know about that. I mean I know what you are saying but Liverpool sold us Sterling the year after we pipped them to the title, Chelsea sold Matic to United last year, Arsenal did the Sanchez-Mkitharayan deal, United sold us Tevez a few years ago now. I do understand it's a bit of a long shot, but there's been a lot of deals between premier league rivals in recent history and Mourinho in particular has shown he is willing to sell to direct rivals if the price is right.

I do acknowledge it's a long shot but i think we could test the waters and see what happens.
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It’s quite funny how you’re trying to convince us Utd might sell to us. There’s 0% chance. In the prime of the Arsenal/Utd or Chelsea/Utd rivalry there’d be 0% chance of either club selling a decent player to each other. Don’t have to test the waters to realise this is never happening. He’s a great player though I agree with you on that.
 
Wasn’t Mino shopping us The Pogster? Maybe it’s not 0%. I think we’re due for a new ‘Welcome to Manchester’ sign anyway.
 
blueballs84 said:
My bad, it was actually west ham wasn't it.
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I think you were sort of a bit right.
Utd had him on loan with an option to buy him.
They didnt buy him , knowing we would.

So in effect they couldve stopped us getting him.

(Im sure they regretted their decision)
 
blueballs84 said:
I Know I'll get hammered for this and I'll preface by saying that I'll be happy to have Mahrez.

But can you imagine having a front 3 of:

Martial Jesus Sane

For the next 10 yrs. Martial has bucket loads of talent and I think Pep could cure the problems with his workrate and application. I know it's an unpopular opinion but I think there's some people here whose opinion is tainted by who he plays for. If they are dumb enough to try and offload a player of his quality and age to buy another 30 yr old big name has been, we should be all over it. And yes, tell me I have rocks in my head and that I'm an idiot who knows nothing about football but I'd have Martial over Mahrez. Having said that, I'll hardly be disappointed if we get Mahrez.
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I dont think you have rocks in your head, I too would prefer Martial. I like Mahrez as a player but Im not keen on him as a person/professional.
I think he could chuck his toys out if he didnt get the reqd game time.

I could never see the likes of David Silva or KDB disappearing and going on strike cos he couldnt get his own way. (like Mahrez did)

The only way to test Utd is to make a bid, if they say no, then move on but the lad has said he's not happy at the swamp.
 
blueballs84 said:
I Know I'll get hammered for this and I'll preface by saying that I'll be happy to have Mahrez.

But can you imagine having a front 3 of:

Martial Jesus Sane

For the next 10 yrs. Martial has bucket loads of talent and I think Pep could cure the problems with his workrate and application. I know it's an unpopular opinion but I think there's some people here whose opinion is tainted by who he plays for. If they are dumb enough to try and offload a player of his quality and age to buy another 30 yr old big name has been, we should be all over it. And yes, tell me I have rocks in my head and that I'm an idiot who knows nothing about football but I'd have Martial over Mahrez. Having said that, I'll hardly be disappointed if we get Mahrez.
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I rate Martial & couldn't care less who he plays for. As it stands I'd put Mahrez ahead of him, but if we got both, just imagine having Sane, Sterling, Mahrez & Martial as our wide options.... Yummy! :-)
 
This hasn't been talked about much, but Mahrez's vision and his understanding of timing is pretty poor.

He often covers this with skillful play. But the number of times he fails to see a play developing is pretty disappointing.

Hopefully Pep can improve this part of his game. And perhaps better talent around him would help.

But watch any of his dribbling videos and time and time again he is busy dribbling 'head down' and misses key opportunities.
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
Many strong rumours that Leicester want 75m plus Roberts that City value at 15m. That equates to 90m.

I ask again what do you think he is worth?
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What you or I think he is worth is irrelevant. It is what the club thinks he is worth that matters.
I will therefore tell you again, he is only worth what someone is willing to pay

I think you are making £90 m up, so state your sources of such rumours
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
Well Einstein what value would you put on Mahrez? Come on don't be shy put your cards on the table. Surely you are not just another of the happy clappers like Karen and Oakie who think City can and should pay whatever it takes to get whoever they want. Strange that those that are so desperate to belittle the views if others when they quote values mentioned in the media and state they don't think he is worth that money are shit scared of actually putting a figure on what they think he is worth. Pretty poor stuff to be honest.

FwIW I dread the day we are thought of like United where we piss money away and buy whoever we want and come across as so fucking arrogant, just like them, where we expect to be able to buy whoever whatever the cost. It saddens and seems to me many blues are quite prepared to follow that route and attitude in the pursuit of sucess. I think many on this forum would come across like that to a visitor.
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This post confirms you are fucking clueless on how we conduct our financial affairs and how we do business.
 
Dax777 said:
This hasn't been talked about much, but Mahrez's vision and his understanding of timing is pretty poor.

He often covers this with skillful play. But the number of times he fails to see a play developing is pretty disappointing.

Hopefully Pep can improve this part of his game. And perhaps better talent around him would help.

But watch any of his dribbling videos and time and time again he is busy dribbling 'head down' and misses key opportunities.
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The players will let him know, pretty quickly.

I think Pep might encourage him to be a bit greedy around the oppo box, as Messi has always been, to some extent. As we overplay the sideways passing at times when we should be giving them more problems.

But if he overdoes it, generally, the team will sort him out before Pep does. Then it will be Pep's job to explain why nobody passes to him & therefore he can't get in the team.

I think he'll 'get it' pre season & be ready
 
Neville Kneville said:
The players will let him know, pretty quickly.

I think Pep might encourage him to be a bit greedy around the oppo box, as Messi has always been, to some extent. As we overplay the sideways passing at times when we should be giving them more problems.

But if he overdoes it, generally, the team will sort him out before Pep does. Then it will be Pep's job to explain why nobody passes to him & therefore he can't get in the team.

I think he'll 'get it' pre season & be ready
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Spot on and probably my biggest frustration last season
 
nimrod said:
I dont think you have rocks in your head, I too would prefer Martial. I like Mahrez as a player but Im not keen on him as a person/professional.
I think he could chuck his toys out if he didnt get the reqd game time.

I could never see the likes of David Silva or KDB disappearing and going on strike cos he couldnt get his own way. (like Mahrez did)

The only way to test Utd is to make a bid, if they say no, then move on but the lad has said he's not happy at the swamp.
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I wouldn’t be giving them any extra money to rebuild their team.
 
Neville Kneville said:
The players will let him know, pretty quickly.

I think Pep might encourage him to be a bit greedy around the oppo box, as Messi has always been, to some extent. As we overplay the sideways passing at times when we should be giving them more problems.

But if he overdoes it, generally, the team will sort him out before Pep does. Then it will be Pep's job to explain why nobody passes to him & therefore he can't get in the team.

I think he'll 'get it' pre season & be ready
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In a way this is the problem with Raheem where he has dove tailed into City but without a team of similar players around him for England he tries to do it all ie creating and scoring.

As you say M. will have world class players who will educate him into Peps methods.
 
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