Riyad Mahrez

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He may be genuinely depressed and need a few months off work. Keeping fit would help while he is off.
 
razman said:


only thing i would say , it won't help his cause if he wants to join city
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Perhaps he doesn't care about that anymore. Perhaps he is young and idealistic and it's all about the principle for him unlike the older Sanchez who appeared money centric.

A contract after all is a two-way street.
 
foxedup said:
He hasn't been denied a move, nobody has bid current market value. It's as simple as that, we're not here to be a charity case for Man City or for Mahrez. If Roma had bid £45 / £50m in the summer, he'd have gone. As it was they tried to buy him with a £17m starting bid. They never even once offered us close to what they got for Salah. The year before nobody even bid for him. If you'd have bid somewhere close to £75m, you'd have most probably got him. You didn't, so he stays.

We might never get £50m for the bloke but there is more to this than money. It's about not being bullied by players, if we accept what we think is bellow market value just because a player throws a strop, every other player then knows how they get their move, other clubs know they don't have to ever meet our valuation and you get known as a soft touch.

We got stung before being a soft touch, so this is about a club making a stand and saying no more. If that costs us £20m on a Mahrez deal, then so be it. The potential benefits will never be seen, but people can't deny that that money could be made back on future deals when people know you either pay, or get lost. Levy at Spurs has that reputation, people know you pay through the nose when dealing with him and he gets good money for his players.

I have sympathy for Mahrez, it would have been a fantastic move to a great club. But, what's good for us comes first and I'm sick to death of clubs trying to low ball us. £15m bids for Kante, £17m bids for Mahrez an Drinkwater. All from clubs not wanting to pay and trying to get players to do the dirty on us.
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The opening offer of getting him for £90m is a pee-take from the club. His 'mate' on Twitter appears to suggest he's not been allowed to move and the lad isn't happy with it.
 
Mahrez goes on strike. saving himself for City in the summer.

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TonyM said:
I think players are essentially being told by clubs to leave as soon as the first bid is made because if they stay they'll be valued at higher prices in the future.

If not he surprised if players will start insisting on reasonable release clauses or they'll down tools/ not join.

Also for better player they might insist in mega wages 1 season deals... or even 1 window deals.

Because clubs have become all powerful again due to TV money.

Could eventually lead to strikes as in the US in the past.
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What I think will happen is more players will begin to insist on buyout clauses in their contracts. If Mahrez could go back 2 years & renegotiate his contract, he'd have probably insisted on a £30-£40m clause which Leicester would have been happy with. As it stands, they've got 18 months in which to fuck him about before they seriously risk losing him for nothing.

This could get very, very messy.......
 
Puel sounds as tight as Wenger you wont get a Frenchman on the wrong side of a deal,dont care if they have problems with Mahrez now ,they didnt show any respect during the bidding process
 
If the reports of the club’s promise to him are true (big if, mind) then they have made their bed and now must lay in it.

Contracts are indeed a two-way street, as is trust and respect, and no one should be required to show either to another party when it is not being reciprocated. He’ll (rightly) be found in breach of contract and fined—he may have no problem doing so for a time as a message that they cannot make promises to players and then reneg on them when it is not convenient for them.
 
somethingelse said:
Puel sounds as tight as Wenger you wont get a Frenchman on the wrong side of a deal,dont care if they have problems with Mahrez now ,they didnt show any respect during the bidding process
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Leicester use the DOF model, Puel will have very little involvement with transfers, he's the coach not the manager.
 
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