Riyad Mahrez will have had a busy career. After his beginnings in Quimper, he proved to be in Le Havre before exploding in Leicester. Best Premier League player in 2016, African Ballon d'Or in the same year, the Algerian international then took the direction of Manchester City in the summer of 2018, where he confirmed his status as Top Player.
After five seasons placed under the orders of Pep Guardiola, Riyad Mahrez then flew to Saudi Arabia, a country in which he is currently a resident of Al-Ahli. But the native of Clichy could have had a very different trajectory.
During an interview with the media Squareex-NumƩro 26 of the Citizens returned to the period of his career where he had been proposed to OM. Parisian by birth, Riyad Mahrez has never hidden his unconditional love for the Marseille club. He could even have brought the colors of his heart club in 2014 if the president of the time, Vincent Labrune, had not opposed it.
Vincent Labrune represses Riyad Mahrez
So championship player with Leicester in 2014, the right winger was proposed by his agent to the Marseille president during the transfer window of the same year: ā When I was in Leicester, we were in a period when we were going to descend. I think my agent had spoken with Vincent Labrune. Me, I was not aware until everything comes out ā.
A proposal that Vincent Labrune did not take seriously.
“Labrune had said to him: 'Stop taking us for idiots, you think we're going to take Leicester players …' The next year, we are the best team in the championship”.
Enough to make the former Marseille leader give some regretsā¦
