Are Gundogan, Laporte, Mahrez and Palmer missed at all?

We miss Gundo in so many ways. That's no disrespect to the other guys who we have replaced.
 
Of course we miss Gundo, for me the most criminally underrated player in our history but we got 7 (I think) wonderful years out of him and he wanted a new challenge. Mahrez did great for us too but we got good money. Palmer hardly played for us
 
Gundo, Laporte & Mahrez were all fantastic for us at times - and they all scored goals that won us trophies, or helped us to on the final day.

But players don't stay at their very best for too long, and there's an argument (at least while we have FFP) for selling someone while you can still get decent money for them.

Palmer, I don't know; we'll see how his career goes ... but Chelsea's offer (they seem to be overpaying in order to gather some of the best young players in the world) was too good to refuse ? Especially if Bobb is as good as we hope.
 
Not so much.
Except Gundo, but it was the right time to move on IMO.
Gundo is getting on, and it is time for younger, fresher legs to step up, and what better chance for a refresh after a treble winning season.

The club is doing good by phasing out our older, important players slowly. We keep some, lose some, so we don't force ourselves in a heavy transition season. Worse thing for a team is to lose all of such players at the same time.
 
Not sure that thinking about these players being missed is the right way to reflect on them. We miss them as they were in rheir prime but it's always sad to see top players stay that one season too long: I wouldn't have wanted to see Gundog and Mahrez in that category. In player terms it's a cyclical game and the skill of the manager is to deal with that.
 
Goater=Legend said:
The absolute disrespect to Mahrez is unbelievable on here.
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Do not blame them, they know nothing about football. The whole PL and the world recognizes Mahrez as a top top footballer. Some of our fans have personal agenda for silly reasons, do not dignify them.
 
Gundogan 100%
He’s made for games like today.
Mahrez in some games, but not all of them.
Though I’m sure he’d be giving Haaland something to get his teeth into.
There are not many crosses coming in from the right.
The other 2 not really.
 
GoatersLeftShin said:
If you think Mahrez was World Class then you are delusional. He frequently went missing and picked which games he would play well in.

Doku will be a FAR better player than him
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I am delusional, then so is Pep who’s said recently that we were in heaven when we had Mahrez, football experts are delusional too because he ranked 7 for the ballon d’or, PL players are delusional because they elected him POTY, PL fans are delusional as they used to shit their pants when he would start or come off the bench, football websites and CL pundits were delusional to award him MOTM so many times. You are the only one who knows football !
 
Gundogan is a huge loss. He was the general on the field everything went through him. He was a big match player and a calming influence.

We've replaced him with Kovacic who does not have these qualities.
 
Laporte is looking like the biggest loss, Stones is just too unreliable with his injuries.

Came on today for his first appearance since the CS and will now fuck off with England!
 
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