Quality player. Not sure he will start regularly for city though. 

Bernardo silva and Mahrez as rotation options. I wouldn't mind either of those starting for us. 

City don't mess about. Missed out on van dijk, sign laporta, missed out on Sanchez, sign Mahrez. 

After seeing what has happened with Dzeko and Giroud, there’s no chance in hell will we spend 50m on Mahrez. Gutting.

f**king Bastards

City don't f**k about.

Doing what we should have done when we won the title. Making your squad highly competitive with quality instead of average players.

Seems all the top sides are brining in quality while we take punts on unproven and over the hill players.

great

I won't lie, if he goes to City, i will be gutted. He is the type of player we really need right now, somebody to take the pressure off Hazard.

This football club, named Manchester City, is a bloody ******. They have Sane, Sterling, Silva, Silva 2, Jesus, De Brewin and Gundogan and now they are about to add Mahrez? Come on, guys, you cannot be serious. They buy in order someone else not to do it. 

If we didn't waste money on Drinkwater,Zappacosta etc we could go for this guy for £60M and he would improve our starting eleven. Instead of going for a big donkey target man we could play Hazard up top with Willian and Mahrez in behind.

Perfect replacement for Sane. He's going nowhere near Stamford Bridge unless we draw them in the Fa Cup Quarter Final. 

Good luck to City. They see an opportunity to strengthen their squad and they do it, backing the manager. Really admire how they go about their business. 

We had an opportunity to buy Mahrez last Summer and we baulked at the 60m asking price. A bargain in the current market. Bet Leicester reckon he's worth a lot more now. 

 

Now this is backing your Manager, with players obviously Pep wants!!

I wish we’d bought Mahrez. Feel sorry  for Leicester’s bit though. Their team has bent dismantled. He would have been so easy to buy in the last transfer window. 

1 hour ago, Ballack & Blu said:

Now this is backing your Manager, with players obviously Pep wants!!

Agreed but you can't have it both ways. You can't have pundits like that tw@t Lawrenson creaming themselves about how Pep Guardiola has developed his squad in his image and created a brand of football that nobody else can compete with when he has spent £460m in 18 months and has four of the five most expensive defenders in the world, having replaced his entire defence from last season.

How can this guy not win everything going with those type of resources at his disposal.

And how the f **k is it that we get accused of not developing youth, buying the league, we ain't got no history, blah blah blah, yet when Guardiola does exactly this, its then total football.

I echo your sentiment, little rich kids buying everything his heart desires.

If Sane wasn’t injured I doubt they’d even have gone in for him.

3 hours ago, evissy said:

?? BREAKING NEWS ??

Riyad Mahrez has handed in an official transfer request to Leicester City, @SkySportsNews understands.

Get all the latest in the Transfer Centre https://t.co/0gEN4a8j1J https://t.co/KxoG1pnsL6

i would be very surprised if leicester let him go. they know they can get even more for him in the summer. sign him up to a new contract and fleece the club who comes in for him. leicester have one day to find a replacement which is impossible. 

Just shows how quickly you can lose impetus when a Chelsea mk2 takeover, and apparently cfc don't or can't compete  fiscally

Edited January 30, 20188 yr by Ballack & Blu

9 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Agreed but you can't have it both ways. You can't have pundits like that tw@t Lawrenson creaming themselves about how Pep Guardiola has developed his squad in his image and created a brand of football that nobody else can compete with when he has spent £460m in 18 months and has four of the five most expensive defenders in the world, having replaced his entire defence from last season.

How can this guy not win everything going with those type of resources at his disposal.

And how the f **k is it that we get accused of not developing youth, buying the league, we ain't got no history, blah blah blah, yet when Guardiola does exactly this, its then total football.

i agree on the youth issue. they are so far in front of everyone, yet phil foden doesn't get played at all. you would think they could at least drop sterling or sane to bring in foden. i would be so disappointed if we were leading the league by so many points and still youth never got a chance, not even one or two. 

I don't think this will happen, at least not in this window, so I'm not too concerned.

Dont get the hype around him. If he was a 30mil buy, then I would say that it was a fair price. But 50-60mil for Mahrez!!!! well, NO. 

Opening offer of 50  probably means they will go to 60/70. At That sort of money I think they’ll probably get him. Really hope Leicester f**k them off and wait to the summer.

Agree with others in respect of Guardiola (and City) getting too much credit. They are undoubtedly the most impressive to watch at present, but they've only managed to make that style of football work after spending an exorbitant amount of money. They have by far and away the strongest group of players in the league, and that's what wins you football matches. If you add those players to any premier league side, they win the league. It's a very similar situation to when Roman had been here for a couple of seasons and our then crop of players, man for man, were head and shoulders above anyone else. Nobody else could compete, and even when they threatened to, we bought (or tried to buy) their best players.

All that being said, clubs know operate (or at least some of us try to) in a world of FFP, and this is my only exception to how City carry on. For example, since last season, including Laporte, they have now spent £215m on defenders alone. How can that be justified to UEFA, unless there's been some serious book fiddling going on? Pep claims, in the grand scheme of things, City haven't really spent that much, as they have bought numerous players, rather than spending hundreds of millions on just one (a la United), but as we all know, that's not really the point. Do City really generate substantially higher revenues than us? In 2016/17 it was about 100m EUR higher, which isn't much by today's standards, and now they're prepeared to increase net losses even further by spending on Mahrez. It's gotten so ridiculous, they're now attempting to sign players to cover injuries of 6-7 weeks.

As others have said, you can't knock their attitude - they've spent the money to bring in the top bracket players. This is what we have done in the past, and is exactly what we should have done after winning the league, but honestly, what's the point in FFP right now. Either we all play by the same rules, or if you choose not to, there must be consequences. If City are prepared to ignore/bend the rules, why are Chelsea so afraid?

1 hour ago, goose said:

Opening offer of 50  probably means they will go to 60/70. At That sort of money I think they’ll probably get him. Really hope Leicester f**k them off and wait to the summer.

With his wages + fee they will fork out £100m, for a bench warmer. They have empty seats most games, and they spend £100m on a bench warmer.

Stroll on renewable energy.

15 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

Agreed but you can't have it both ways. You can't have pundits like that tw@t Lawrenson creaming themselves about how Pep Guardiola has developed his squad in his image and created a brand of football that nobody else can compete with when he has spent £460m in 18 months and has four of the five most expensive defenders in the world, having replaced his entire defence from last season.

How can this guy not win everything going with those type of resources at his disposal.

And how the f **k is it that we get accused of not developing youth, buying the league, we ain't got no history, blah blah blah, yet when Guardiola does exactly this, its then total football.

Come on now. Guardiola has earned his stab at the big time surely, having roughed it all his managerial life? Scraping along with Barcelona B, then being dragged screaming to become coach of Barcelona after which he grudgingly accepted the Bayern job. No doubt about it. If he fell into a pile of sh*t, he'd come out spotless and wearing a silk top hat.

Regarding Lawrenson and his ilk, they go with the flow because they can NEVER be wrong and if the finger is pointed in their direction, well, it's somebody else's fault who's sitting on the fence next to him.

Apparently City have offered £65m plus a player. I really hope Leicester still turn it down. 

£65 mil is way overpaying for him IMO