luRRka
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Riyad Mahrez
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dagraham
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26. So his next contract will be his peak years.
I get the model we are trying to follow, but if we want to win trophies we can't just buy players solely with future resale in mind.
dagraham
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and won a league title. I know it was a freak, but they still had to get over the line.
THFCSPURS19
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OK so who do you think we need to make this window not a shambles?
yido_number1
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Something to freshen up the attack. Its not a shambles and I think Barkley and Sanchez will add a lot. Someone a bit tricky would be good.
dannythomas
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It really mystifies me why we haven't moved for him. He would add a new dimension to our attacking options and I'm sure Poch would get the best out of him. I way prefer him over Barkley.
I find it strange that there is so much focus on Mahrez's supposed lack of workrate and tracking back in this thread, but very little of the same discussion about Ross Barkley's lack of off the ball work. In roughly the same number of minutes over the last two seasons, Mahrez has double the interceptions of Barkley and significantly more successful tackles. If you watched Barkley the last few months of the season where his performances tailed off, you'd see a player that certainly didn't look like he was interested in getting stuck in and pressing high up the pitch (he also had a poor last 10 games attacking wise, with 0 goals and 1 assist while Everton's form dipped).
panoma
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I've done the same with the Gazzaniga thread, but the reason is different; I really don't care about that signing
Hans Gruber
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Not really the same position, but I agree with you otherwise.
Mahrez would immediately challenge for the first team and add a huge attacking threat; Barkley would be firmly second fiddle to Eriksen & Alli and wouldn't be expected to offer nearly as much in the way of goals. Would the latter have even come on yesterday, and if so for whom?
My concern with Mahrez is that at 26, on £100k a week & likely to cost upwards of £40m he doesn't really tick all of Levy's bargain boxes (especially after the Sissoko debacle last year) we're less likely to go all out for him in a way that I think we would if he were younger and playing on the continent.
My gut tells me this is exactly the type of scenario where we'll enquire on deadline day and end up being marginally outbid by Chelsea or whoever leaving us with nobody to fill that role.
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heelspurs
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For one of those this statement is true, for the most part. For the other I can see him riding some pine in the near future. I will leave it up to you to decide which is which.
freeeki
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26. Basically dead.
King of Otters
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Except one is a title winning, former PFA player of the year, experienced international, and the other looked good in 15 minutes against Gillingham.
goughie1966
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He signed a 4 year contract last August. With 3 years left on it there's nothing stopping Leicester asking for whatever they want. He's clearly a £50m player in the current market with 3 years on his contract.
Hans Gruber
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This must be a joke? Edwards has struggled to get game time for England U19's, Mahrez has been Leicester's best player for the past 2 seasons & propelled them to the most impressive PL upset in history. Edwards may have potential but the 2 can't currently be spoken about in the same breath.
Sweech
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Mahrez has had one good season. We're not talking about some proven world beater here. We're talking about a guy who hasn't shown his PFA award wasn't a purple patch and has a history of not working hard enough and being late to training.
I'd sooner put the wages and time elsewhere either on someone more proven or give it to a developmental player like Edwards.
Hans Gruber
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Clearly you don't watch much of Leicester. Mahrez is as close to world class as there is in the PL.
EDIT: for those that disagree can you name better performers over the last 2 seasons? Hazard you'd probably call world class, was clearly the best PL player last year, but where would you have ranked him and Mahrez after the previous season when everyone was writing Hazard off and Mahrez had propelled relegation fodder to the most unlikely PL victory in history? I'd argue that since summer '15 Mahrez has been the better player overall, or at least equal. Remember Mahrez you can stick 2 men on him each game & effectively mark him out the game, he would be different gravy for a top 6 club where he gets the attention taken off him.
Who else? Sanchez? Carried Arsenal but has gone missing in games & can throw his toys out of the pram. Arguably better than Mahrez but don't think there's much in it. Coutinho? Pogba? Sadio Mane? De Bruyne? Eriksen? Martial? Mahrez is at least in that category, & for me certainly ahead of most in terms of star quality.
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