MAHREZ STAYS!
Leicester keep their title-winning superstar as Foxes build for another Champions League push.
Not a real headline. Imagined from the No-City model and alleged-breach era; no honours are officially reassigned.
Leicester City’s 115 Effect
The miracle does not need rewriting. The interesting question is what happens after it.
The front page above is imagined; the recorded story starts here.What really happened
Leicester won the 2015/16 Premier League. That miracle actually happened; it does not need a hypothetical table to give it meaning.
The City effect
They reached the Champions League quarter-finals in 2016/17, then a League Cup quarter-final shootout against City in 2017. Mahrez’s move to City came in 2018, after this model’s window: a later legacy link, not an earlier fixture effect.
What changes?
The title stays theirs in both histories. Removing the City fixtures takes four points off their total, not four points onto it.
Actual: 1st · 81 pts
No-City: 1st · 77 pts
These are recalculated league positions, not official honours, qualification decisions or a proposed remedy.
The butterfly effect 🦋
City removed. Leicester still champions. So the what-if begins after the miracle: could the choices made around that squad have turned one astonishing season into something longer?
- What if?Alternative history
Could different choices after the miracle have turned one extraordinary season into a longer era?
The legacy
Mahrez's 2018 transfer is a later recruitment link to City. Could keeping more of a title-winning core have made the miracle feel like the start of an era rather than a one-off? Perhaps. It is not something the No-City table measures.
A title that stays put
A storytelling convention, not an official award or a prediction of who would win without City.
Leicester CityUnchanged in the separate No-City model; not one of the reassigned trophies.The data / show me the receipts
Every Leicester City Premier League season in the charged-era model, including the ones where nothing changes.
Season-by-season league impact
| Season | Actual | No-City | Impact | Pts vs City |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014/15 | 14th · 41 pts | 13th · 41 pts | +1 league place · no points removed | 0 |
| 2015/16 | 1st · 81 pts | 1st · 77 pts | no position change · -4 points | 4 |
| 2016/17 | 12th · 44 pts | 13th · 41 pts | -1 league place · -3 points | 3 |
| 2017/18 | 9th · 47 pts | 8th · 47 pts | +1 league place · no points removed | 0 |
Every league match against City
| Season | Date | Home | Score | Away | Result | Club pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014/15 | 2014-12-13 | Leicester City | 0–1 | Manchester City | L | 0 |
| 2014/15 | 2015-03-04 | Manchester City | 2–0 | Leicester City | L | 0 |
| 2015/16 | 2015-12-29 | Leicester City | 0–0 | Manchester City | D | 1 |
| 2015/16 | 2016-02-06 | Manchester City | 1–3 | Leicester City | W | 3 |
| 2016/17 | 2016-12-10 | Leicester City | 4–2 | Manchester City | W | 3 |
| 2016/17 | 2017-05-13 | Manchester City | 2–1 | Leicester City | L | 0 |
| 2017/18 | 2017-11-18 | Leicester City | 0–2 | Manchester City | L | 0 |
| 2017/18 | 2018-02-10 | Manchester City | 5–1 | Leicester City | L | 0 |
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Where does this story go next?
See the receipts · editorial notes
2015/16: actual champions; hypothetical No-City champions with four fewer points. No honour is reassigned.
2016/17 Champions League quarter-final; 2017 League Cup quarter-final shootout; 2018 Mahrez transfer is legacy context, not charged-era direct effect.