Leicester cannot win league – Mahrez

Leicester winger Riyad Mahrez has dismissed his team’s chances of winning the Premier League, despite getting leading.

The Foxes narrowly avoided relegation last season but are two points clear at the summit soon after 15 games.

But Mahrez, who took his purpose tally to 11 with Saturday’s treble at Swansea, is more concerned at getting the eight more points needed to attain 40, a total generally sufficient for survival.

“I never think we can win the league,” the 24-year-old told BBC Planet Service.

“We just require to get the 40 points and then soon after that we will see.”

The Algeria international’s form, along with that of 14-aim group-mate Jamie Vardy, has been instrumental in Leicester’s rise.

“I am not surprised because I knew I could do the items that I have done,” Mahrez added.

“Football is just self-assurance. When you start off scoring and you carry on it offers you a lot more self-assurance so perhaps that has helped me.”

Don’t take me for a ‘sucker’

Marseille president Vincent Labrune reportedly dismissed the idea  of the French club signing Mahrez when the player was recommended to him as a potential target in December 2014.

“Do you genuinely believe that Leicester players now have a place at Olympique Marseille?” Labrune is quoted as saying. “I never place up with men and women taking me for a sucker.”

“He thinks what he thinks. I know what I am, I know what I’m carrying out in the football, I know what I can do,” Mahrez mentioned.

“The individuals who do not know football – I do not want to speak about them.

“Everyone’s not going to really like you. Often some people adore you, some individuals hate you, some men and women do not like your football. That’s life so I do not care, I do not mind.”