Few people outside Leicester noticed when the then-Championship Foxes made him a low-price signing from French club Le Havre in January 2014, but Riyad Mahrez has blossomed into one of the most exciting players in the Premier League. The France-born Algeria international forward built on his five-goal first full season in England by combining with fellow unlikely success story Jamie Vardy to lead a fairytale title triumph by a club that had barely avoided relegation 12 months earlier.
