#26 | Riyad Mahrez - 2020/21 Performances

[decmancity]

Never suited us.

His strengths are running in behind teams at pace.

We play against 11 men behind the ball.

Bizzare buy.

I have barely seen him run never mind have "pace". He constantly looks 10yrds behind the play, a few times KDB had the ball to break forward and Jesus was trying his best to get ahead of him and Mahrez wasn't even on the camera.

He is a lazy bastard, happy playing against lower league teams and semi pros at international level but when you are in a tough game he is quite probably the last person I would want in the squad never mind starting 11.

 

[Mike N]

Another Nasri for me. Lots of skill but you wouldn’t want him in the trenches. I don’t trust him.

 

[Jamiblue]

Next time I see Mahrez in the line up I'm not even gonna bother watching it.

I actually threw my phone (not very far) when I saw he was starting.

 

[Mike N]

It’s a good job the fans aren’t in the grounds. He’s stinking the place out at the moment and it would have been abundantly clear what the Etihad thought of his performance.

 

[Jamiblue]

He’s so predictable. One tricky pony. No one ever expects him to do anything with his right foot which makes him very easy to defend against.

You could literally hear Tottenham’s defenders saying to mark on the inside of him. He’s painfully predictable.

 

[domalino]

True,but he will go up in a lot of doubters estimations if he fucks Mahrez off whether Messi comes or not

He wont do that though. He is picking Mahrez for a reason, and I think that reason is we have lost a ton of creativity with Silva leaving. Not exactly a secret we are struggling to create chances.

I dont like him but there is no denying Mahrez's numbers when it comes to creating chances goals are second only to KDB in the league.


We need to replace Silva's creativity in midfield, then we can go with 2 goalscoring wingers in Torres and Sterling and ditch Mahrez for good.

 

[Withnail]

A pale shadow of the Mahrez at Leicester. Gutless, lazy and not worth his place in the side at the moment. His best days are behind him and time to get rid imo.

 

[Ric]

Really wanted him to come good, but his performances this season have been largely infuriating. He was painfully bad today.

 

[Damanino]

He creates fuck all. We should have a very dangerous players playing in his position, who is making the defenders shit scared and scoring, assisting goals regularly.

Mahrez in 504 minutes of PL football this season scored 1, assisted 1. Both of these happened in September against Leicester, where we lost 5-2. Kind of useless contribution so to say but lets not take away these from him.

Good at international level? Algeria playing 90% of the times vs Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Angola type of opponents. Those defenders might be League 2 level defenders or worse.

I think we would struggle to get 30m from a PL club for him, and his salary would prevent clubs like Leicester, Everton, Villa, Birghton to bid for him while Arsenal, tottenham, United would not touch him for good reasons. And we got him for 60m and gave him a PL title, and gave him some CL experience and some domestic cups. yet his value just dropping and dropping.

 

[Ric]

I think we would struggle to get 30m from a PL club for him, and his salary would prevent clubs like Leicester, Everton, Villa, Birghton to bid for him while Arsenal, tottenham, United would not touch him for good reasons. And we got him for 60m and gave him a PL title, and gave him some CL experience and some domestic cups. yet his value just dropping and dropping.

He’s nearly 30 and the market has changed a lot since Covid, tbf. Agree that we’ll struggle to sell him though, unless we subsidise his wages.