i really feel frustrated but i really really wish that we sign Sandro and Mehrez this January please
To be fair ambrosetti and gronkjaer would be upgrades on them right now too so...
An agreement that we won't stand in his way has been in place for two years, but that doesn't mean we have to accept any offer. It has to be a substantial amount of money and inline with the current market. If someone wants to pony up £75m then the club will let him go.
Puel thinks Mahrez will be worth 100m in the summer.
It was a bit tongue in cheek and more a comment on how quickly the market moves forward, whilst also setting the stall out for people to stop expecting us to accept a sh*tting offer just because Mahrez fancies a shot at playing somewhere else. Roma bid £17m in the summer FFS
Almost exactly what I was about to post. Mahrez looks great for Leicester because he's given the time and space by opposing teams to play his game. We don't get any space for our forwards as teams set up to squeeze us out the game and hit us on the counter. If players like Hazard, Pedro & Willian are being marked out of the game while playing for us, what the hell is Mahrez going to do for us!?It was a bit tongue in cheek and more a comment on how quickly the market moves forward, whilst also setting the stall out for people to stop expecting us to accept a sh*tting offer just because Mahrez fancies a shot at playing somewhere else. Roma bid £17m in the summer FFS
Mahrez isn't actually as inconsistent as people think, you need to watch us week in week out to understand our and his issues. As a team our form has been so up and down the last few years, Mahrez gets affected by that. When the other 10 are off their game or not confident, the only chance Mahrez gets to do anything is on the half way line, with no support and surrounded by 5 players... he's good, but expecting him to produce from those positions all the time is ridiculous. His skills and ability always shine through, even if as a team we aren't putting him in the positions and situations he needs to be able to imapct the game. People see that as a Mahrez issue rather than a Leicester issue, which it actually is.
Somewhat like people doubting Hazard because your whole team was poor on Saturday and struggles to create situations for him to perform.
I think you've misunderstood. The point was the inconsistency people think he has, is a Leicester issue not getting him into good positions, rather than a Mahrez issue. The better the team he moves to, the better he'll look as his team mates with be a) better at finding him in the right areas b) actually give him support, rather than Danny Simpson standing 50m away as his only option and c) you have other threats that draw players away, where as here he's pretty much our only creative threat and the opposition try and crowd him out.
In that case I apologies as I did misunderstand, I should have read your post more thoroughly. Which also means I wholeheartedly disagree with you. If you was to put Willian or Pedro into the Leicester team, in my opinion they would be far more effective than Mahrez has ever been, for two reasons: Firstly because, as I mentioned above, they would have far more space to work in while being closed down far less than at Chelsea. And secondly, simply they are superior players!
I have no problem with you disagreeing with me, such is life. However, the snappy little one liner about me having not watching many Leicester games when you don't know a thing about me is not needed thank you. I have an opinion, you have a differing opinion. Shall we leave it at that.
We play a 3-5-2 because Pedro and Willian aren't great and it offers us more stability. Bring in a world class winger and we can easily shift back to a 3-4-3.
3-4-3 would be a far better system for Mahrez, though I'd prefer Sanchez. The problem with that system is still the two in midfield. We've got to prey that Barkley is better than what we already have for that system to work.
If you'd watched us a decent amount of times, then you'd know that during our championship winning season, we had plenty of teams who just tried to shut up shop against us. Just as they continue to do this season, on current form we'll probably end up 7th, best of the rest. There are plenty of teams who don't want to attack us and just come looking for a point, just as they do you guys.
Ok, lets take your title winning season as an example. At the beginning of that season not one team that played Leicester played against them as if they were playing against title contenders. It wasn't until the game against City in which you won 3-1 that teams actually stood up and took notice. After that most teams played not to lose, rather than trying to win, which meant that they sat back and packed out their defense to try and nullify your attack. Up until and including that game against City, Mahrez scored 14 goals and had 10 assists. Then came Arsenal which you lost, and from then on for the final 13 games where teams sat back to nullify your attack like they do now to Chelsea, guess how many goals Mahrez scored..........3. Guess how many assists he had.......1.
