Riyad Mahrez delighted penning new Man City contract: I’m here to win

Manchester City midfielder Riyad Mahrez is delighted after penning a new contract.

Mahrez, 31, has signed terms to 2025.

Asked why he decided to increase his time with the Premier League champions, Mahrez said: “To win again. All the time. That’s the only thing that drives us, to win again.

“Win everything we can. Win the first game and then the second and the third and keep going and at the end we will see what we can achieve.

“We are big and our mentality even in training is that we want to win. I want to win.

“That is part of my character and my personality, but I think all the players who arrive here and get to know the team and get to know the club and get to know the manager, we have no choice other than winning.”

Asked how Pep Guardiola had influenced his career, he said: “I have improved a lot under him. Everyone is happy.

“I hope we are going to achieve more things during this season and all the years to come.

“I play differently than I did at Leicester where I wasn’t thinking about anything.

“I was just playing and doing my own thing. At City, with my age and the way we play it is so different. It is just different games, but the basis is the same.

“You always need competition to push you. I see the competition as a good thing. I have always had competition wherever I was but here the competition is higher, and it has made me a better player.”