da betcris： “I lost two years at the very highest level”.
da dobrowin： Those were the words spoken by Manchester City’s Riyad Mahrez in a recent interview with France Football.
In the interview, he explained how the Leicester City hierarchy blocked a proposed move to Arsenal the summer after the Foxes had won the title in 2016 and how he felt frustrated with the Foxes’ slide down the table the following season.
He eventually swapped blue shirts in the summer of 2018 in a £60m deal, and has gone on to win back-to-back Premier League titles, but has only scored 15 goals in all competitions since, which is less than the 18 he managed just in the league campaign of 2015/16 (via Transfermarkt).
However, his comments that those years between the title and his move to the Etihad were essentially a waste have not gone down well with the Foxes faithful.
They took to Twitter to slam the former Player of the Year, with many of them now poking fun at the fact he’s been reduced to a substitutes role in his new abode.
Possibly one of those ‘think before you speak’ moments for Mahrez.