How A 400,000£ Transfer BROKE The Premier League

so listen to this over the past 20 years no so-called football Miracle has come even close to what happened with ler in 2016 however when you take a deep dive it starts to make more sense kante cost him 8 million he was just shy of being their alltime record signing and was already seen as one of the biggest upand cominging talents in the top five leagues getting offers from the likes of Mars Leon and West Ham before Lester ever got to him even Jamie VY cost him1 million there was a reason he was the most

expensive non-league player of all time but on the other hand Riad mahrez he was bought by Lester for a few smaller than the yearly wage they were paying VY at the time matter of fact the likes of Wayne Rooney were being paid that same amount weakly he was such a known name that when manager vahid Ali zich called him up to the national team the Algerian fans revolted against them even the newspapers were claiming that someone had paid off their manager to call him up nor even the people from his own country knew who the

guy was they just saw some random 24-year-old we had never even stepped foot into any kind of first division football some guy that's according to his own technical sheet didn't even weigh 60 kilos and they instantly assumed there was no way in hell this guy could be an actual football player but less than two years later he was seventh in the Balon door the Premier League's Player of the Year and none of it would have been possible without ler secret weapon Steve Walsh listen the guy is a Football Genius I genuinely think you could argue

that he's the best Scout in the world back in Chelsea he was the one who told them to sign J franola drug by Ina at Everton he gave them the chance to sign some Norwegian kid for 5 million his name was earling Holland and at last sir well he found vardy he found kante but if you don't believe me believe him mahz was last's W through sh in the dark that they wal for spotted him mahz had played only one official match in his old career even though he was already 22 years old Walsh wasn't

even there to watch him he had no idea who he was he was there for Ryan Mendes but by the end of that match he had barely even noticed him his eyes had been stuck on a kid who could kill the ball dead and go past everyone and even if his decision making wasn't the greatest if defensively he wasn't the best when Walsh got back to England he would not back down he kept telling the staff they had to sign him he forced him to watch all the footage he had collected but they insisted they

saw nothing more than a scrawny Winger with a blond tinted Fringe who couldn't create anything aside from a step over here and there they couldn't see how mares could ever belong anywhere near the Premier League all they saw was a street footballer just like everyone before Walsh look mahrez never really took football too seriously he grew up playing in pickup matches all around Paris it was only at 12 that he joined his first team and it was a seven tier amateur club named sarel he was just there to have some fun with his friends the

only person in his life who pushed him to give football a real shot was his father an ex amateur footballer himself with forever regretted the fact that he never made it any further than that but honestly for the longest time mahz didn't really pay much attention to his advice at least not until he turned 16 years of age and his father suddenly passed away from a heart attack then as marish said I had to do it for him a year later he was already playing for the senior team Asel and in an absurd plot twist

he was spotted by a music agent who did some football work as a side gig when he saw him he wrote down on his notepad clever Technical and a dead ball specialist but needs to eat more porridge regardless shortly after he had already bought Mara as a plane ticket to Scotland in the blink of an ey he was on trial at s mirin rining other boys in F aside games but getting knocked around because footballers don't take too kindly to French teenagers running rings around him the whole thing was an absolute success the kids scored

seven goals in the four match as he played with their under 18s but 2 and A2 months went by without any talks of a contract since hilariously the agent who had found him was too busy jetting around Europe with Paul pots the first ever winner of Britain's got sence to cut men and negotiate So eventually might has it enough as he said Scotland drove me crazy it was so cold it was abused one time I faked an injury just so I could go back inside it got so bad the guy borrowed a bike from his

teammate gathered his fang and got on the first plane back to France back home as much as he asked everyone around for help months went by without anything coming up but eventually someone found out that compare a tiny French Club who just gotten promoted to the fourth deer was setting up trials so they told M as he should go the only problem is that it was a 6-hour train right away and a ticket cost €160 MZ knew his family couldn't really afford that but he asked his mom regardless and told her don't worry I'll pay

you back this time I'm going to make it big there were more than 20 candidates there mostly free agents coming from other clubs in the French fourth deer but in the end mahz was the only named their manager had written down as it say I couldn't understand I would slip past all the big clubs that scour every neighborhood in Paris the only thing they needed was to convince the club's president but he said no he couldn't see how some guy who we less than some middle schoolers could ever be worth a wage of €750 a

month the day they told marz he literally cried in front of them they felt so bad they called his mother and that's when she said please do whatever you can for him so the manager went back into the boardroom and told him if this kid doesn't become the next zadan it will be on you a week later Mars was already moving into the city sleeping on a couch of a flat he ended up sharing with none other than Matias bgba Paul's brother we just signed for that same club and according to him our diet was

just bad we only ate take out like some college students I kept telling him he needed to get bigger but he didn't put on one kilo the whole time we lived together no matter what as another teammate would explain when he arrived we could all see it he knew nothing on a tactical level his legs were skinny enough to snap like Brad sticks but on the all he was like benara it was so fun watching him dribble around with his little Mohawk we nicknamed him the chicken in fact it made enough of a splash that

even though that team would end up relegated a year later there were Scouts from leag a coming in to watch him but still at the advice of pogba's brother mahz ended up signing with laava in the second tier his new club may not have been the most glamorous from an outsider's perspective but everyone in France knew they were responsible for building talents like Las Steve mandanda bjo Mandi Dimitri pay and of course Paul pgba so he came in willing to drop down to their B team but after 13 goals in his first year when he

finally gave him a shot they subed him in only to sub him out 40 minutes later realizing that he was getting completely tossed around by the other players in his own words my feelings were so hard at day it took me 6 months to get over it and indeed after half a season telling the other players that you'll see where I am in two years doing it so often they had to bring him to the side and tell him to shut up he made it back onto the pitch and held on to that spot for

the final six matches of the Season which was precisely when Steve Walsh first saw him a year later though he was still far from a star player still struggling to rack up goals and assists and always complaining that in the French second tier they always play for the goal as draw when Walsh came back to see whether his eyes had deceived him or not he had no doubts he approached mahrez and told him ler were willing to sign him however this time mahz would be the one slowing down the transfer he had never heard of

such Club matter of fact when he first heard their name the first thing he asked was aren't they a rugby team for the rest of the Year Ms debated with his friends and family what he should do and he all told them that England is not for you too physical too strong you'd be better off in Spain but eventually someone said to him at La nothing will change you can never know what will happen in England so he called Walsh telling him he wanted to go and thanks to a mere 450,000 transfer that barely hit

the newspapers mahrez made the best decision of his life after only half a season at ler not only these shock his coaches who found he had no transition period whatsoever but ler had been promoted to the Premier League for the first time in 10 years suddenly MZ was being called up by Algeria to play in the World Cup even though he had never even made any appearances for them and though as I said said he faced a lot of backlash from natives that had no idea who he even was mahrez was now playing the greatest

tournament on Earth about to debut in the most watch league on the planet and even if ler would immediately get thrown all the way down to the bottom of the table it was then that he was called up to the African Cup of Nations where his teammate Med Lassen told him you're dead I know how it is battling against relegation you've only won three games this season and you got nine left to play do you really believe you can win six or seven of those well mahrez actually did and I imagine Nigel Pearson could see

that because believing they just needed an edge to flip it all around since most of their defeats had been as narrow as they get he set up his team in a 3412 putting mahrez right behind the two Strikers and he pretty much resurrected a team that appeared to be long dead winning seven of the final nine leading them to an unbelievable 14th Place finish six points above the relegation line once Mars went into his third season the general consensus was at if ler had gone down the year before they surely would know everyone could see

what the betting houses were saying 5,000 to1 odds of winning the league and that was before the son of manager Nigel Pearson joined the team in their preseason trip to Thailand at the invitation of Lester's owners only to get himself in a major controversy not just recording a sex tape with two other youth players and some local women but being heard all throughout at making racist comments which ended up cosing his father his job and leading to the signing of Claudio haneri you have to understand haneri as famous as he may be had never won

a lead title in his 28y year long career he was just coming off of a disgraceful spell in charge of the Greek national team in everyone's eyes any team under his command was bound to fail however again mahz saw it differently from the moment the two mats Ranieri told him I want you to take the ball and Lead this team score help others score take penalties he wanted him at the center of it all and according to mahz that was it it gave me wngs from that point I went up a gear if they had

started their season by setting 40 points as their goal just enough to avoid relegation then Mars opened up the season with a 10 out of 10 performance scoring twice to get them aord to win over southernland and then he scored a winner against West Sam another to for totenham to a draw two more assist to clinch a win against Aston Villa and then a goalen assist to get a draw away at Stoke and little more than month into the year Lester were already on 12 points more than they had Midway through the previous season only

three off the top of the table and even if then Han Yeti often criticized for overthinking way too much had the insane idea to drop Mars to the bench for three out of the next four games then he came back and turned everything he touched into goal he had an assist as he drew at Southampton another to beat Palace 1 nil a goal to draw against whole city two to beat West ROM then a hatrick to beat ssy 3-0 putting ler at the top of the Premier League table and still went and got a goal

and assist to shock Chelsea with a 2 to1 win and a brace to beat Everton 3 to2 he was indisputably the most effective Winger on the planet he had taken a team that ranked eighth in in their league in terms of possession and sent him straight to the top suddenly his market value had skyrocketed from four to 30 million pound there were rumors of PSG and many United coming for him the newspapers were writing whole articles about alas form would surely implode if marz was to leave so much so that Ranieri was forced to let

everyone know that he was priceless even in Algeria where a year before they were protesting against him now yet the fans joking that Al zich should get a statue for getting to him before France ever could and that wasn't even because he had pulled off 11 goal contributions in his last seven matches with a national team no ler had three times more Facebook followers from Algeria than from the UK they were the most watched football club in the country bigger than any native ones his shirts had gone out of stock Nationwide even though the 60

EUR needed to buy one were almost half their minimum wage mahz Mania was in full flow and as much as ran Yeti insisted that their goal was still those same 40 points they were already only eight away and though a quieter month by mahz would indeed see them drop to Second by the time they reach that Mark then he' quickly get two assists against stok and Liverpool getting up for the match against City where he dropped another manof the match performance assisting the first and then scoring one of the goals of the season to bring

ler back to the top after that runni slowly began accepting that maybe they could aim higher first they fought to secure in Europa League spot then one in the Champions League and when they secured that with five matches left it just said to them this is a dream go and 3 weeks later Tottenham fell to Chelsea and the impossible was achieved leester were champions of England the longest odds of any successful event in the history of sports batting and as much as the fans seem to be completely in love with Jamie vardy the analysts knew

that the one true hero had been Riad mahrez so with 38 go contributions for club and country won every 98 minutes he became the first ever African to be named PFA Player of the Year and despite all the interest and like a lot of his teammates he chose to stay at ler and go for the Champions League next year even with their league performances disappointing massively with Kanti getting sacked only months after they' taken the title they somehow still managed to top their group falling only one goal short of reaching the semifinals leaving everyone to

wonder what would have happened at K State for just one more year but regardless now that that was done and with mahz being named African Player of the Year and seeting seventh in the bindar rankings he announced that he'd finally be willing to leave the club but even though on Deadline day the Algerian Federation would allow mahrez to fly back to England to sign a deal with some mystery Club it all fell true and mahrez was forced to stay at the club for one more season going on a streak of 19 goal contributions in 22

starts as his market value Rose to 50 million with Lester rejecting every one of men City's approaches over the Winter Market as they insisted it'd only let him go for 80 million almost destroying their relationship with the player as the transfer drama escalated month after month until they settled for a60 million pound bed that finally allowed Mars to move on though at times it almost felt like it had been the wrong move from the moment Maris arrived at City made sure to tell everyone that his main goal was to win the Champions League however Pep

Guardiola had other plans from the beginning it made sense that he was on the bench after all its Man City he wasn't the only star but by December he was on a run of 13 goal contributions in 15 matches despite only being on the starting 11 for eight of those and yet they Guardiola benched him and he benched him hard from January onwards mahz only stepped out of the bench for 12 out of the 24 matches he was called up four barely even being used in the Premier League at all and even though he'd be

the one to show up on the final match day scoring and assisting to clutch the title as Man City were about to lose to Brighton and hand off the title to Liverpool nothing changed despite averaging around a goal contribution per game despite going off with Algeria we had gone through seven coaches in three years and absolutely dominating the African Cup of Nations sending the commentators into a melt toown as he scored a last minute free kick to put them in the final where he beat mané Sagal to bring his country their first title in 29

years well Guardiola didn't seem to care much in his second season though things improved Guardiola only allowed them to play more than 70 minutes in 26 out of the 58 matches he was called up for but somehow even with zadan wanting to bring his fellow Franco Algerian to Real Madrid as a Gareth Bale replacement MZ already closing in on his 30th birthday decided to stay at the club and make the most out of whatever chances he could get and I mean the most still hellbent on leading them to the Champions League title MZ proceeded to

score assist in every match from the last 16 second lag all the way to the club's first ever final clutching both quarterfinal matches against Dortmund and then scoring three out of their four semi-final goals to bring down PSG but even though his teammates them near got on their knees praising him in front of every media Outlet then they'd Shock the World by choking the final to Chelsea and Guardiola would end up giving him even less playing time the next year handing him just 55 minutes per game on average only to watch him pull off 33

goal contributions regardless greatly outscoring every single one of his teammates as he once again dominated the Champions League with eight goal contributions in 10 matches all the way to the semifinals where he'd get an assist home against real and would then score their only away goal at the bnab Bell only for Guardiola to take him off and force him to watch From the Bench as his teammates con see the three goals in the space of 10 minutes leading thousands of fans to parade him for his choice which I can only assume must have bruised his

ego as the following year he would give M just 11 minutes on the pitch from the last 16 onwards regardless of whether or not he had been averaging a goal contribution every 88 minutes from October to the day he finally qualified for the Champions League final once more a match where he wouldn't even had to step on the pitch finally getting to hold the Champions League trophy but only while knowing he had no real involvement in its Conquest finally just accepting that he had a good run better than he could have ever imagined and departing

to the Saudi League to wreck up 50 million pounds a year now that he was already 32