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Riyad Mahrez 2017 edition

jones

Gazza M wrote:
Klaus wrote:
Fuck it. Let's sign Lacazette and Mahrez. Let's get Yoann Gourcuff and Hatem Trabelsi too while we're at it. I'm sure they're still on Wenger's watch list. Yaya is available too. Now would be the perfect time to get him when he moves around like a refridgerator that is being dragged behind a tractor on a newly ploughed potato field.

What an absolute shower of shit this summer is.

mahrez is a quality player, just not as a replacement for alexis or ozil. technical ability like his doesn't grow on trees, and i think he'd be hungry to do well after a down season

He wasn't even that bad, had a number of class performances in the CL especially in the latter stages. Leicester struggled as a whole which affected his game as well

I'd rather Lemar but Mahrez would be a great addition, knows the league well and would be immediately ready to perform. Can't see a position for him in our 3-4-2-1 though

Coombs

He'd have to play behind the striker, I'd imagine. Sanchez role.

Ricky1985

Both Leicester and Arsenal's "ITKs" are in agreement tonight - done deal at £28m.

Would be a very good fee - their fans are fuming over it - but he's not a player I'd be jumping up and down over should this come to fruition.

Qwiss

Wenger wanted him last summer too so hopefully he's pretty confident about what he can get from him. I've my doubts about his attitude though. Could have pushed for this move last summer but instead coasted for Leicester and had a pretty bad season.

mdgoonah41

Qwiss! wrote:
Wenger wanted him last summer too so hopefully he's pretty confident about what he can get from him. I've my doubts about his attitude though. Could have pushed for this move last summer but instead coasted for Leicester and had a pretty bad season.

alternate take: he might have felt indebted to leicester for bringing him to the league, making him a key player in the squad, and winning the title in a once in a lifetime run. i thought i remember him saying he wanted to leave last year, but he agreed to stay for a year with a promise that he could leave this summer.

lets assume that alexis/ozil/lacazette is our front 3.

mahrez would then be an impact sub. £28m is a lot to pay for an impact sub, but how many times have we been crying for a goal in the 70th minute and we have no real attacking threat to bring on. and of course, there will still be plenty of games to go around.

Gazza M

despite being class he doesn't exactly fit. he's average as a LW and a 10, but very good as a RW

don't want square pegs in round holes all over again

Coombs

---------Lacazette
Sanchez----------Mahrez

-----Lacazette
Ozil----------Mahrez

----------Lacazette
Sanchez----Ozil----Mahrez

------Sanchez
Ozil------------Mahrez

I don't see why any of those can't work.

Clrnc

Mahrez is a really good signing, be it 28m, 35m or 40m. We are desperately lacking a winger of his technical ability and trickery. You can't have enough of such players in your squad. Just ditch Campbell and Walcott to make space for him. When you consider how many minutes our fringe players like Theo had, Mahrez represent a huge upgrade.

Just look at these touches, we don't have someone of his finesse in the squad.

Claudius

If you sign him and Sanchez stays, you can always go back to 4 4 2. Would be an awesome attack. I don't think you need more than Lacazette, Sanchez, Ozil, Mahrez to win the English league. Please show me a recent attack that is markedly better amongst English league winners.

Let's let Wenger do his things. If he brings in the realistic players he is linked with and keeps Sanchez, we should be okay. Our team will be better than Pool, Spurs and probably United on paper

Gazza M

Coombs wrote:
---------Lacazette
Sanchez----------Mahrez

-----Lacazette
Ozil----------Mahrez

----------Lacazette
Sanchez----Ozil----Mahrez

------Sanchez
Ozil------------Mahrez

I don't see why any of those can't work.

assuming we keep everyone, only the 3rd formation is an option. we're not buying lacazette and mahrez only to park them on the bench

flobaba

I like me some Mahrez.

dreamlord

Clrnc wrote:
Just look at these touches, we don't have someone of his finesse in the squad.

Ozil!

Also, I don't get why you're comparing Lacazette and Mahrez to Gourcuff and Trabelsi (whoever that is...) Klaus. That's a pretty strong reaction.

Claudius

Dreamlord!!!! Wash your mouth with soap. Trabelsi (whoever that is)!??? Trabelsi is an Arse legend. The original houseboat. Father to Kalou and various others. Repent.

Big Willie

😆

Segway

Ricky1985 wrote:
Both Leicester and Arsenal's "ITKs" are in agreement tonight - done deal at £28m.

Would be a very good fee - their fans are fuming over it - but he's not a player I'd be jumping up and down over should this come to fruition.

28m would be a joke. A real pisstake if we manage to get him for that. Seems like nonsense to me.

jones

How can you not know Trabelsi ffs. Only player in history to have been signed 26 times by the same club

Irishgunner

Claudius wrote:
Dreamlord!!!! Wash your mouth with soap. Trabelsi (whoever that is)!??? Trabelsi is an Arse legend. The original houseboat. Father to Kalou and various others. Repent.

you forgot sebastien frey

#legend

Anzac

I've decided that I'm fine with signing him even if it means a return to a 4231 or even a 4222.
We've been calling out for a genuine wide man for a decade = here he is.
28m is a no brainer.

Gunner89

Trabelsi made the squad in pes 4 also

Gurgen

Claudius wrote:
Mahrez, Lacazette, Sanchez and Ozil is a good front 3 or 4 as you will. I would happily take that into next season.

Only problem is at least one of those last two guys won't be at Arsenal next season.

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