Riyad Mahrez tried desperately to leave Leicester City in the summer window, and upon linking up with his teammates, manager Craig Shakespeare revealed the winger has earned himself a new nickname.
The former Le Havre man handed in a transfer request at the King Power Stadium in the summer and was subject to strong interest and three bids from Serie A side AS Roma, all of which were rejected by Leicester.
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Mahrez got his head down and played for Leicester in their first few Premier League games, but his desire to leave still remained and he left Algeria's training camp on deadline day to try and arrange a transfer.
Wherever he ended up flying out to, Mahrez didn't put pen to paper and so the 2016 PFA Player of the Year is still a Leicester City player until January at least.
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And Shakespeare has been talking about the Mahrez situation, and says the 26-year old was likened to Tom Hanks in the film 'Terminal', where character Viktor Navorski is refused entry into the United States.
Speaking to The Telegraph, he said:
"I was sitting at home and got a phone call from Jon [Rudkin] saying the Algerian FA had given Riyad permission to miss the game.
"It was a real knife-edge time and we were in the hands of other people. We understood he wanted to move because he'd made it clear but the owners wanted a realistic price.
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"Dealing with that was another moment in the managerial experience. He came back to training after the window closed and we were calling him Tom Hanks out of 'The Terminal'."
Mahrez has played every minute of every Premier League game Leicester have played this season, registering two assists.
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