Mahrez AWOL

[larbert toffee]

Fully understand his actions, but do not condone.

He is under contract (like all empmloyees) and must honour that agreement professionally.

However the club (employer) must accept that by preventing their employee from accepting a suitable role they too must find a way of dealing with it professionally .

In this instance both parties have acted unreasonably and should now work together to appease each other.

With you here Boba but this is classic modern day football scenario and how it sadly now pans out, no loyalty anywhere, sad but true.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

With you here Boba but this is classic modern day football scenario and how it sadly now pans out, no loyalty anywhere, sad but true.

At the end of the day a player is a mug for being loyal. Fans and the club will eventually turn on you

Just take a look at the last 2-3 pages of our Baines thread for proof of that

When you're at your physical peak, supporters demand your loyalty. As soon as you start getting a bit older, they demand you get shipped out without a second thought

If I was a player I'd care about myself and myself alone, because the fans won't once I start outliving my usefulness

We get the game we deserve at the end of the day

Players will start being loyal once we start giving them reasons to. Not before

 

[gonetomorrow]

At least he's miserable in comfort. So many people aren't.

 

[electricblue]

Storm in a teacup. He'll be back training next week with a(nother?) promise to let him go in the summer.

 

[Abraders]

Tbf he's watched the likes of Drinkwater join Chelsea no problem etc.

He probably feels like he's done his bit and should now be allowed to leave.

Still a tit though.

 

[SpongeBob brown shoes]

Millionaire footballer has a strop shocker, there's 3rd world problems then there's 1st world problems then there's premier league cryarses who are upset at the injustice of not being aloud to play football at the club of their choosing while picking up thousands of pounds every week from a contract they were happy to sign,

People make out like he's being hit with a stick in training if he doesn't run fast enough and forced to live in a bedsit with the rest of the team on rations, suck it up Mahrez you ball bag

 

[PhilM]

Tbf he's watched the likes of Drinkwater join Chelsea no problem etc.

He probably feels like he's done his bit and should now be allowed to leave.

Still a tit though.

Agree with you here. I'm not excusing his actions as I'm fully aware and agree that he has a contract and therefore should honour it.

However, on the other hand you can on a personal level understand why he'd be aggrieved if said promises he'd been given have been broken.

Who knows if the promises are true, yet if they are and the likes of Kanté etc have been allowed to leave whereas he's been made to stay...

... well, you'd be incredibly frustrated. I'm a traditionalist so verbal agreements are for me very important, and shouldn't be easily revoked.

Still, as you mentioned, this whole sulking and being depressed is just nauseating. In fact, both parties pretty much come out wreaking of it.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Kinda understand Riad. He has been denied the move for two windows now. Leicester in denial...they think they are bigger than they actually are. We will Leeve them behind us pretty soon.

 

[jackyboy]

Should have let him go.

 

[Boba Fret]

Millionaire footballer has a strop shocker, there's 3rd world problems then there's 1st world problems then there's premier league cryarses who are upset at the injustice of not being aloud to play football at the club of their choosing while picking up thousands of pounds every week from a contract they were happy to sign,

People make out like he's being hit with a stick in training if he doesn't run fast enough and forced to live in a bedsit with the rest of the team on rations, suck it up Mahrez you ball bag

The fact he has a healthy bank account is irrelevant. The same argument could be levelled at a minimum wage cleaner who has been promised a promotion but is repeatedly then held back.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

No defending it really is there?

I have a selection of swear words I would like to use

 

[degsy]

Well, we have not got a clue if there was a gentlemans agreement that he could go if XYZ happened, but in the absence of that, not arsed really.

Im just glad he didnt play against us, would've made it harder for us to win...a win which we needed.

It seemed obvious that city had a price over which they would no go, so either the player/agent or the club got greedy...maybe both
Not the sort of attitude you'd want, seems cut from the same cloth as that WHam tosser

 

[degsy]

At the end of the day a player is a mug for being loyal. Fans and the club will eventually turn on you

..............Players will start being loyal once we start giving them reasons to. Not before

I thought we already gave them 130,000 reasons a week

 

[chrismpw]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42918406

Hasn't gone to training for second day in a row.

The Leicester manager says he hopes Mahrez can clear his head and return. Bit soft imo. (http://www.skysports.com/football/n...have-a-leicester-city-future-claude-puel-says)

Robbie bloody Savage says he 'respects Mahrez for taking a stand' against Leicester. (in a Mirror article)

On one hand, I can understand his frustrations at not making the step up to a bigger club.

On the other hand he should get his head down and work as hard as he ever has for the club that he's contracted with.

If one of our players acted like this (not that our rollover board ever stands up to big money moves), I'd be ready to BOO next they make an appearance.

Player signed a contract and takes a huge wedge.

Get on with you bunch of unlikeable spoiled brats.

Hope he's docked pay.

 

[bring the ghost on]

The fact he has a healthy bank account is irrelevant. The same argument could be levelled at a minimum wage cleaner who has been promised a promotion but is repeatedly then held back.

Not really, the context is very relevant.

Mahrez has advisers (agents, lawyers) who will have told him that a "promise" that you can leave next season is only as good as the word of the person giving it.

If he didn't negotiate a release clause in his new contract and Leicester subsequently didn't think Man City were meeting their valuation and decided not to sell him, then that's own Mahrez's problem for not getting it in the contract in the first place.

Any promise Leicester made will be subject to them getting value for the player.