Riyad Mahrez

[SebastianBlue]

:) I give in.I can`t better that.

My edit is even better. ;-)

 

[goalmole]

why is everyone screaming for giving kids a chance.... lets start the eds team v basel and get knocked out but hey we giving kids a chance..

Because for them the fixation is to emulate the rags and as part of that, they have to have our very own class of 92. Nothing else seems to matter and they can't see the wood for the trees. Sad really.

 

[MCFC1993]

Just taken a look at what we'd have if we get Mahrez and Fred and I think it's fair to our squad would look fucking ridiculous...and I love it!

Ederson, Bravo, Gunn, Muric
Walker, Danilo
Mendy, Delph, Zinchenko
Otamendi, Stones, Laporte, Kompany, Mangala, Adarabioyo
Fernandinho, Fred*, Yaya
De Bruyne, D. Silva, Gundogan, B. Silva, Foden
Sane, Sterling, Mahrez*, Brahim
Aguero, G. Jesus

Now I know we're going to sell/let players go, Yaya, Mangala and a couple of the youngsters will be sold/loaned (either in Jan or the summer) but looking at that squad really is unbelievable.

Think we'll have to enter a B team in the Premier League.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Because for them the fixation is to emulate the rags and as part of that, they have to have our very own class of 92. Nothing else seems to matter and they can't see the wood for the trees. Sad really.

Again, because advocating that one or two young players (already in and around the first team) could do a job while Sane is out is, of course, the same as saying every position should be filled by a player from the EDS/Academy.

Argumentive fallacies are strong tonight.

 

[Andrew___K]

From Telegraph's John Percy:

Mahrez is pushing for a move to the runaway Premier League leaders on deadline day with Pep Guardiola prepared to pay up to £60million for the former PFA Player of the Year.

But Leicester’s Thai owners, the Srivaddhanaprabha family, are maintaining a hardline stance on Mahrez and insist he is not for sale, especially at such a late stage in the transfer window. And while Leicester have no plans to sell the Algeria international it is understood that it would require a fee of around £90million to even raise the prospect of a deal being done.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...rges-late-man-city-transfer-target-leicester/

 

[NorCalBlue]

The hair might be a deal breaker.

We should at least get 10 million off the fair market value on account of it.

 

[BLUE THUNDER]

if FFP2 limits transfers to 100 mil net you would assume that transfer fees will go down.
So why wouldn't they cash in now, cos they wont be getting 80 -90 mil in the summer under the new rules.

 

[goalmole]

Again, because advocating that one or two young players (already in and around the first team) could do a job while Sane is out is, of course, the same as saying every position should be filled by a player from the EDS/Acadamy.

Argumentive fallacies are strong tonight.

If we find ourselves left with no other choice than to throw a 17 year old kid in to the deep end then so be it, but to argue that we should pass up the chance to sign an experienced player, a League medal winner and former POTY at that, just coming into his prime years, in a season where we find ourselves in a realistic position of winning 4 competitions, when we will be playing probably twice a week till the end of the season, when injuries are piling up, is beyond stupid. Do you honestly think that one of our youngsters, as good as they are, could come in and do a job to the same level as Mahrez could. Give us a break

 

[cleavers]

From Telegraph's John Percy:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...rges-late-man-city-transfer-target-leicester/

So we thanks, but no thanks

 

[SebastianBlue]

If we find ourselves left with no other choice than to throw a 17 year old kid in to the deep end then so be it, but to argue that we should pass up the chance to sign an experienced player, a League medal winner and former POTY at that, just coming into his prime years, in a season where we find ourselves in a realistic position of winning 4 competitions, when we will be playing probably twice a week till the end of the season, when injuries are piling up, is beyond stupid. Do you honestly think that one of our youngsters, as good as they are, could come in and do a job to the same level as Mahrez could. Give us a break

I do not understand this certainty regarding the job Mahrez could do and the job Diaz (or Foden, when he is fit) could not do. This immense confidence than one will be successful and the other will not be.

What evidence do you have of either in the context of playing in our system, against opposition employing tactics generally unique to us (and not implemented against, say, Leicester), with our current squad (and including our defensive weakness on our left side with our current injuries, which means we likely need a player committed to box-to-box play, for example)?

I am just one who understands that we do not have any evidence either way at this point so both outcomes are equally plausible. And saying otherwise is elevating one’s opinion to fact, which is juvenile, rampant argumentive fallacies aside.