Premier League champions Leicester city winger Riyad Mahrez have signed a new 4-yrs deal.
The Foxes made the announcement through their website, with Mahrez committing his future to the club till 2020 despite interest from a quantity of clubs together with last season's most appropriate League runners-up Arsenal.
A declaration on the club's website read: "Leicester city football membership is delighted to announce that Riyad Mahrez has signed a new contract, committing his future to the Foxes until June, 2020.
"The reigning PFA gamers’ player of the year indicators new phrases after taking part in a starring position in metropolis’s unforgettable leading League title triumph last season – the state-of-the-art stage of a tremendous ride for the 25-12 months-historic Algerian in Leicester city colours."
Mahrez scored 17 league pursuits and delivered eleven assists for Leicester last season, winning the PFA player of the yr award at the end of the season, as good because the optimum League title.
He's already off the mark on this new crusade, having scored from the spot in the course of Leicester's 2-1 opening-day loss to Hull metropolis on Saturday. The Algerian used to be linked to a few significant golf equipment, together with Chelsea and Arsenal, over the summer time, but Ranieri has managed to tie him down for the foreseeable future with this new deal.
The 25-yrs-old just lately admitted that simplest 'one or two clubs' could get him to leave Leicester.
“it's a super league and that i wish to stay right here so long as possible,” he told France football.
“Now, there are two or three clubs on the earth, that if they arrive for me, it without doubt makes you believe, should you have an understanding of what i am trying to say.
“It [the Premier League] is the first-rate league on this planet, essentially the most unique, the place there may be the most at stake. There's additionally continuously a little uncertainty. Final 12 months, we won the league. In Spain, you will under no circumstances see Levante or Granada completing top. In France, due to the fact the new PSG, it is the same."