Football transfer rumours: what next for Riyad Mahrez and Leicester?

Today’s rumours drew the short straw

Claude Puel is widely expected to talk to Riyad Mahrez at training today and tell the disappointed Algeria international that he can go to Manchester City, after all – in 10 days’ time, when Leicester visit the league leaders! He’s always up for a laugh, is Claude.

It’s up to Puel to raise spirits around Leicester now, and we’re not talking about holding a seance, a ceremony for which Puel’s demeanour is of course not absolutely ideal. Now is the time for the manager to bring gaiety to Leicester, where many residents reported being awoken on Wednesday night by a long and mournful wail that seemed to begin at the very moment the transfer window shut and morphed in the hours that followed into bitter sobbing and some very innovative swearing.

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