The Algerian has ignited English football since reaching Leicester in 2014, but his career at French club Quimper before moving to Le Havre.
The winger named PFA Player of the Year in the foxes’ historic Premier League triumph 2016 before sealing a 60 million-pound move to City.
The 29-year-old boy born in the Parisian suburb of Sarcelles, but chose to play for his parents’ country and helped Algeria win the African Cup of Nations in 2019.
Mahrez asked about his goal of returning to the French capital with Paris Saint-Germain through his city partner Benjamin Mendy, as he is a younger supporter of PSG’s rival Marseille.
He told Canal Plus, quoted by the Mail: “He’s crazy, but it’s true that I was a supporter of Marseille when I was little.
“As far as PSG is concerned, it is irrelevant because I still have a contract and I’m fine in Manchester, but Paris is my city. I was born and raised in Paris. You never know. “
With regard to PSG, it is irrelevant because I am still under contract and I am fine in Manchester, but Paris is my city. I was born and raised in Paris.
“I may have gone to Marseille [in 2014-15] and I can still play Marseilles.
“You never know in life, you deserve not to close any doors. I didn’t know it at the time and I was fine in Leicester, but they didn’t have the [to play there] point. “
Mahrez, who remains under contract in the City until 2023, was forced to retaliate when french media claimed he brazenly courted PSG.
The quotes broadcast through ‘ActuFoot’ claimed that the end said, “I don’t close any doors, if the PSG needs me, I’ll think about it. “
But Mahrez temporarily turned to Twitter to claim that a component of his interview had been falsely translated.
He wrote on Twitter: “I never said that. The tweet that translated fake and just clicked on it. Remove.
“That is not what I said at all. What is difficult to transcribe word for word?”
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