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Mahrez: The ultimate bargain?
- Updated: April 25, 2016
Given he was playing in French football’s Ligue 2 just over two years ago, it is perhaps not surprising that Riyad Mahrez is the cheapest PFA Player of the Year for almost a quarter of a century.
Paul McGrath won the award in 1993 after Aston Villa paid £400,000 for him and Leicester are believed to have paid a similar amount for Mahrez, but no winner in between cost so little.
Back then, of course, there was a different climate in English football prior to a dramatic increase in television money and McGrath’s fee was proportionately more substantial than it would be today.
There have been three home-grown …
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