The hilarious thing is, Liverpool want to get 50 million for him but spend all their time character assassinating him and getting players and fans alike to insult his ability which in effect would make a lot of people think he isn't worth as much as they want.

 

They are shooting themselves in the foot in their endless quest to appear like the best thing ever when in reality they are being classless morons. No wonder he wants to leave.

Liverpool were never known for having any intelligence about them. They're a clueless bunch and Brenda epitomises them beautifully.

Apparently Berahino who shares the same agent as Sterling has ditched said agent due to the Sterling saga.

 

Wise move. Pretty mature move too.

I think Liverpool must take alot of the blame when they put so much pressure on Sterling to sign a new contract. Making it public when he didn't want to sign and having all these liverpool pundits criticising his choice. With that said, Sterling shouldn't be skipping practice, just make it clear he won't sign a new contract is enough, like Modric did. Liverpool will have to sell this season if they want £40mil-£50mil in any case.

I actually like Brandon Rogers, he seems like a decent lad but I don't think he knows what he's doing. I think it will be his last season with Liverpool.

It seems they are getting rid off all their good players and replacing them with just mediocre footballers. Suarez got replaced with Bonatelli and Lambert as a back up - and it was complete fiasco.

I also think LVG will fail again to win anything this coming season and will be probably heading to some other club.

Sterling is going to City it seems.

Yup, along with KdB and a couple of other pricey ones too.

Yup, along with KdB and a couple of other pricey ones too.

I don't think KdB is marked on to go to City. Think he will stay at Wolfsburg and move next year. Could even see Bayern going for him as they pretty much suck up all the talent in the Bundasliga

Yup, along with KdB and a couple of other pricey ones too.

Pogba was supposed to go to City too. Instead, they couldn't even get Delph. 99% of rumours are absolute rubbish or else every world class player would've already been signed by Man Utd.

I actually like Brandon Rogers, he seems like a decent lad .

I thought for a minute you meant Brendan Rodgers.....

I actually like Brandon Rogers.

 

Too much information mate.

;)))

Yes I know it's the Daily Mail, but a decent article regarding the hypocrisy of clubs expecting absolute loyalty from players. Never thought about it from this perspective

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3157587/Raheem-Sterling-criticism-stop-football-ruthless-want-loyalty-labrador-wing.html

 

So these are the things that have been levelled at Raheem Sterling: he’s selfish, he’s disloyal, he’s callow, he’s arrogant, he’s ambitious, he’s immature.

Well, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and yes. Newsflash: he’s a professional footballer. You know what they say about loyalty: if Liverpool want that these days, they better get a golden Labrador to play on the right wing.

Idealise your heroes if you want to but romanticise them at your peril. The reality is that most players who make it to the Premier League are hard men, emotionally as well as physically. 

People like Sterling are survivors. They’re the ones who made the cut. They’re the ones who saw their fellow apprentices in tears when the youth-team boss told them they had no future in the game.

They’re the ones who sat outside in the corridor and saw the shattered hopes trudging past them down the corridor heading for a life in Palookaville. They’re the ones who smelled the fear but escaped the cull.

They learned all about loyalty back then. They saw how a club will dash a dream as quickly as a snap of the fingers. It’s not personal. It’s business. That’s the way the clubs treat it. They have to. Why should the players be any different?

Nobody’s playing a violin for them but, in their world, it’s sink or swim. Trying to make it as a professional footballer is a hard, hard school. There is no sentiment involved. It’s about proving your worth. 

People like Sterling, they’re the ones who left home in their teens, uprooted and sent to digs to live with families they don’t know, away from their mums and dads, knowing the odds are they’re going to be chucked on football’s rubbish heap.

Sterling lived that life. He lodged with the people he called his ‘house parents’, Peter and Sandra, when he moved to Liverpool from his home on a north London estate aged 15.

A lot of the kids who make it in football are hungrier than the others for a reason. Sterling had a difficult childhood. After he and his mum left Jamaica for England when he was five, his father, who he never knew, was murdered in Kingston. For kids like him, football is often an escape.

Sterling’s story is not untypical. Before he knows it, someone like Craig Bellamy finds himself in Norwich, about as far east of his home in Cardiff as you can get in this country, crying outside a chip shop because he has just got off the phone from his parents and the homesickness is killing him. 

Or you’re another player I know, an apprentice when he made a senior pro look silly in training and found himself cleaning up a pile of steaming faeces from the dressing-room floor as punishment.

Or you’re the lad I know who was cut from Manchester City’s youth set-up at 15 and joined a lower division club on YTS forms. He moved away from home for the first time and found the demands of training hard. He had real talent but got a niggling injury. He was sent for treatment. The medics couldn’t find anything. He was told he had to play injured. He wasn’t used to that. He tried but his form never really recovered. At the end of his two years, they let him go.

The point is, it’s not easy getting where Sterling has. Top-flight football does not breed balanced individuals. It breeds single-minded, intensely driven young men who prioritise their careers over everything else because, if they want to make it, they have to. 

So they shut everything else out, including friendships and relationships. A player has to be intensely selfish just to have a chance. They’re not particularly normal. Most of the time, the normal ones don’t make it. If you want rounded, grounded individuals, talk to a teacher or a nurse. Definitely not a footballer. Definitely not somebody who has cut himself off from most of society.

Sure, Sterling could have been more tactful in his dealings with Liverpool. Maybe he could have disguised the fact that he wanted to leave. Maybe he could have been more cute. But maybe he figures, why bother? It has to be that way if you’re going to make it like he has. If you’re going to play for one of the top clubs in the Premier League and the England team, then you’re going to have to sacrifice most of your youth for it.

Again, you won’t find anybody offering any sympathy for that. Nor should they. Just don’t expect these young men to play nice when they make decisions about their future. Sterling has no roots in Liverpool. He has no real emotional attachment to the club or the city. The media and the fans demand that attachment but the hard truth is that it’s an unrealistic expectation.

Sure, feel sympathy for the fans who take a player to their hearts, who idolise him and dream of him being the inspiration for a renaissance at their club. But don’t blame the player if he’s ruthless when someone offers him the chance to move on. It’s the way the system made him.

 

 

Yep - brilliantly put.

I actually like Brandon Rogers

Get a room you two, jeesh.

Yes I know it's the Daily Mail, but a decent article regarding the hypocrisy of clubs expecting absolute loyalty from players. Never thought about it from this perspective

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3157587/Raheem-Sterling-criticism-stop-football-ruthless-want-loyalty-labrador-wing.html

A kid I know has no friends anymore after 2 years in the youth setup of a Dutch professional football club. He's 13. And don't get me started on his school results. It's a tough, cut-throat business.

Edited July 12, 201511 yr by Valerie

No surprise the only people who think he is worth £45m are City's fans. And seeing him compared to perhaps being as good as Hazard on that forum is f**king hilarious

No surprise the only people who think he is worth £45m are City's fans. And seeing him compared to perhaps being as good as Hazard on that forum is f**king hilarious

 

 

He's a decent player and will do well at city, but 35 would have been the height of my appetite for this one

Apparently £49000k agreed with citeh..

That will seriously strengthen their team for next season!!

Edited July 12, 201511 yr by Ballack & Blu

Smart business by City I would say, was hoping we would be in for him as well. 

Smart?

49 million is a panic move by City.

Crazy money for a teenager, especially one who is in the news for all the wrong reasons.

I'm delighted he's gone to City and for so much money.

 

He's never going to be a great player, not at the level of Rooney for instance, not a chance.

 

I'm delighted because it's going to get very toxic between City and Liverpool, and it will be fun watching from the sidelines for once, and the media will have it in for him, because he's dared to leave their beloved Liverpool.

 

Also, Sterling has issues, there is no doubt about that.

 

He drops out of games, saying he's tired.

 

He smokes hippy crack.

 

He refuses to train.

 

He does ill-advised interviews without the consent of his club.

 

He's fathered about eight children, allegedly.

 

Good luck City. That's all I can say.

The worst thing about this is that QPR supposedly get 20% of the transfer. 

 

City need to sack their negotiator. Liverpool HAD to sell him and there were no other interested parties. They will be laughing their heads off.

The other thing about Sterling is he will now have to perform under intense scrutiny, just like Torres, and we all know how that worked out for him.

 

Towards the end of last season Sterling's performances suffered because he couldn't cope with the scrutiny, and at City there's the added pressure to win things.

 

Is he up to it? Time will tell.

Smart?

49 million is a panic move by City.

Crazy money for a teenager, especially one who is in the news for all the wrong reasons.

 

It's not so crazy if City don't have to buy another right winger for 10 years+. Lets say we buy Pedro for £20mil, in 4-5 years we would have to replace him with another player for atleast the same amount. Sterling has had two good PL season  already, so it's not like they are buying Cuadrado.

Edited July 12, 201511 yr by comtrend