Foxes manager Claudio Ranieri insists Mahrez is going nowhere this summer after the playmaker helped Leicester win an unlikely Premier League title last season.
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As far as Bouhafzi’s reliability is concerned, there is little doubt – the journalist was the first to break the news of N’Golo Kante and Michy Batshuayi signing for Chelsea.
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is keen to lay his hands on Mahrez this summer.
“Never has Riyad come to me and said “coach, I want to go” because I’ll kill him before he tells me this,” Ranieri joked as he made a strangling gesture.
The 25-year-old winger-and his manager-will have been buoyed by Vardy’s decision to remain at the east Midlands club this summer after the former Fleetwood Town striker rejected the opportunity to move to Arsenal himself.
He scored in Leicester’s Premier League opener against Hull City on Saturday, but the Foxes slipped to a 2-1 defeat at the KC Stadium.
These reports coming out of France are in direct contrast to what the British press are saying, with the Guardian claiming that Mahrez has accepted he’ll stay at Leicester for at least another year following talks with the board.
“Of course, Kante had a [release] clause and Chelsea paid it but Riyad does not have the clause and he will stay with us”.
Arsenal made an approach for the Mahrez’s strike partner, Jamie Vardy, earlier this summer but the England global elected to stay at the King Power Stadium by signing a new four-year contract at the club in June.
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“He improves more if he stays with us for another year, maybe next year he can think about another solution”.
