1 hour ago, Bob stark said:

I am curious. What do you want sterling to do? Do you want him to be hazard? To be Pedro? To be willian? 

 

The only time he has been truly effective for club and Country is when he has arrived late at the back post to finish. He doesn't have great technical close ball control, he can't head or tackle for toffee and whilst being pretty fast he is not overly rapid for a sustained period.

Therefore his skillset is pretty limited. But he can score. In the right environment and the right pattern of play he has proven that he can score goals.

Eroding his confidence by playing him in positions that require attributes he doesn't have will benefit nobody and will take away one of the few goal threats we have

Edited October 22, 20223 yr by WhiteWall

59 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

The only time he has been truly effective for club and Country is when he has arrived late at the back post to finish. He doesn't have great technical close ball control, he can't head or tackle for toffee and whilst being pretty fast he is not overly rapid for a sustained period.

Therefore his skillset is pretty limited. But he can score. In the right environment and the right pattern of play he has proven that he can score goals.

Eroding his confidence by playing him in positions that require attributes he doesn't have will benefit nobody and will take away one of the few goal threats we have

I don't think sterling skillset is limited but that does not matter. As I explained to Scott, if you want sterling to attack far post he need to play as wb. The other solution is to play 433. But we have seen Tuchel n potter tried back 4 and just abandoned them after few games.

4 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

The only time he has been truly effective for club and Country is when he has arrived late at the back post to finish. He doesn't have great technical close ball control, he can't head or tackle for toffee and whilst being pretty fast he is not overly rapid for a sustained period.

Therefore his skillset is pretty limited. But he can score. In the right environment and the right pattern of play he has proven that he can score goals.

Eroding his confidence by playing him in positions that require attributes he doesn't have will benefit nobody and will take away one of the few goal threats we have

Thank you.. I think our fans never paid close attention to him while he was at City.

 

3 hours ago, Bob stark said:

I don't think sterling skillset is limited but that does not matter. As I explained to Scott, if you want sterling to attack far post he need to play as wb. The other solution is to play 433. But we have seen Tuchel n potter tried back 4 and just abandoned them after few games.

They are though, and that was one of the criticisms City fans levelled against him constantly. Even if you watch him now; he miscontrols the easiest of balls, he struggles when he receives the ball with the defender behind him, and lacks the technical skills to dribble past a defender. Pep actually ran one-on-one drills with him on how to open up his body when receiving the ball, and giving and go.

If we want to get the best out of him, he has to be pinned off the opposition wingback and we have the CBs launching diagonal passes into space to explore his speed. I am not too sure that will work with him as a WB as his starting position is effectively the middle of the park. He will struggle getting into the box constantly from there. His heat map is way off what it was at City, and he isn’t getting into the box as often.

Reality is he is a volume player. His output at City masked his low conversion rate because they create loads of chances. If we are expecting him to finish 1 or 2 chances per game that won’t happen.
 

Edited October 22, 20223 yr by ducavis

He was sh*t today. I’m shocked he stayed on the pitch for that long, he offered absolutely f*ck all. 

Is starting to show why I did not want us to buy him. Always felt he was overrated being in a fantastic Pep side.

It's so predictable with us. We sign these players and we play to their weaknesses every time. Anybody that has watched Sterling for most of decade can see that his strengths are not ball carrying and trying to dribble past packed defences. I have said it hundreds of times now, but his best attributes are running in behind defences and getting on the end of crosses. We have no width from the wing backs, so he has no chance at getting on the end of crosses and we have so few numbers in attack that he can't play quick passes with anybody to ghost in behind a defence. 

Potter is basically Southgate 2.0 in how he uses Sterling.

5 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Is starting to show why I did not want us to buy him. Always felt he was overrated being in a fantastic Pep side.

Easier to look good when there is a player that can get 20 assists in the league. Sterling actually doesn't look like a player that can create something for himself, he freezes in front of the box just like the rest.

8 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Is starting to show why I did not want us to buy him. Always felt he was overrated being in a fantastic Pep side.

How is the lad supposed to perform when he's a LWB one week, RWB one week, RW another and then LW another?

Potter is f**king this up. He's got no time to build patterns and chemistry with his fellow attackers because he's literally being played all over the place. Including f**king defence.

Atrocious from the manager and there are obvious signs he's way out of his depth already. He's made us worse, not at all better.

4 minutes ago, Droy said:

How is the lad supposed to perform when he's a LWB one week, RWB one week, RW another and then LW another?

Potter is f**king this up. He's got no time to build patterns and chemistry with his fellow attackers because he's literally being played all over the place. Including f**king defence.

Atrocious from the manager and there are obvious signs he's way out of his depth already. He's made us worse, not at all better.

Did you expect different when we were forced to downgrade our ownership in the summer. Spending silly money on average players does not make them good owners.

12 minutes ago, Droy said:

How is the lad supposed to perform when he's a LWB one week, RWB one week, RW another and then LW another?

Potter is f**king this up. He's got no time to build patterns and chemistry with his fellow attackers because he's literally being played all over the place. Including f**king defence.

Atrocious from the manager and there are obvious signs he's way out of his depth already. He's made us worse, not at all better.

City sold him for a reason. He has lost his edge. He hasn't got the burst of acceleration that he used to have - he is still quick but has lost some of it. His dribbling has been impacted due to this and, thus, his creativity. His shooting and decision-making has always been erratic.

20/21 & 21/22 has seen a decline in his goal and assist output. He is currently on a downward trend, even at City with the insane amount of chances they create.

Goals & Assists

18/19 - 28 in 34 - 82%

19/20 - 24 in 33 - 72%

20/21 - 18 in 31 - 58%

21/22 - 19 in 30 - 63%

He can contribute, but he has never been a player to be relied on as the main output. He has always been inconsistent, especially in finishing. He is also on the decline. 

Edited October 22, 20223 yr by Chelsc96

Since Sept 1st Sterling has played 672 minutes and has 1 goal and 1 assist. Both are in UCL. None in league matches.

Sterling started his career at what? 15 for QPR? Has spent what 11? 12 years at top clubs relying on his pace?

How did it work out for Rooney and Torres, who also hit the scene at 16, 17 years old. We're they still amazing at 29, 30, 31? 

Sterling is in decline, he has been playing top level football for a long time and had great players like David Silva and KdB to help him pad his stats.

We Cannot offer him that, and he cannot make it happen himself.

We are stuck with another declining top earner on a huge contract. I have heard several suggest Pulisic would offer us more. Honestly I think Carney and Hutchinson would right now as well, and I hope we don't lose them because we are stuck with Sterling.

Edited October 23, 20223 yr by axman2526

I started thinking yesterday has he actually ever put in a performance forms to warrant the money we paid for him? Because I can't think of one, he's very very frustrating to watch, maybe our club is just a graveyard for forwards, we haven't had a success story since Hazard.

16 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Did you expect different when we were forced to downgrade our ownership in the summer. Spending silly money on average players does not make them good owners.

On 10/06/2022 at 14:44, Gentian said:

Honestly, who decides these targets in recent years. Sterling for 50 or 60 million is madness. He is not much better than Pulisic and at 28 years old is another Lukaku disaster transfer.

I was hoping we move away from these sort of signings and revert back to when we signed prime young talent like de bruyne, salah, hazard, oscar, mata etc etc. 

Instead of going for Nunez at 22 years old, or we could have had tchoumani last year we hesitate and try to squeeze the last penny same as we doing with Kounde now than end up loosing talent to someone else.

 

On 11/06/2022 at 13:40, HazardousChoice said:

One of the worst posts I've ever read.

Sterling was better at 18 than Pulisic has ever shown the potential to be.

Sterling is a proven goal scorer at the top level, an elite dribbler and has great movement and positioning.

Pulisic is playing in the Premier league solely because of his nationality and would be on the bench at Mainz now after joining them for 5m if he was German considering how badly he flopped at Dortmund.

I understand people not wanting Sterling (personally I'd love to sign him) but trying to pretend he's not far better than Pulisic is hilarious.

Sterling has had seasons where he's had nearly as many goals contributions as  Pulisic has career goals.

I still stand by my comments.

I support Sterling fully and was excited when he started so well, hopefully he will pick up form again but it shows that he is not a huge upgrade to Pulisic.

6 hours ago, Gentian said:

 

I still stand by my comments.

I support Sterling fully and was excited when he started so well, hopefully he will pick up form again but it shows that he is not a huge upgrade to Pulisic.

Two decent cameos and all of a sudden Pulisic being a ghost for two years is already being forgotten.

@Gentiangood comparison to Lukaku. They both work as hard as each other, though I would back Rom in a race when the finish line was a buffet.

2 hours ago, Argo said:

Two decent cameos and all of a sudden Pulisic being a ghost for two years is already being forgotten.

That's not the point. I am not a fan of Pulisic or am not saying that he has being brilliant but is Sterling really a huge upgrade as people were saying?

Plus i don't know why but when you have established players like Sterling playing for City it just feels weird seeing him on a chelsea shirt. Or Mata with Man utd. It took me years to consider Ashley cole a proper chelsea player as i was used to seeing him as mr Arsenal.

Anyway i want Sterling to have the best career here in chelsea, that would be amazing.

Playing out of position is no excuse whatsoever his form is dreadful!

receives the ball, runs into a player,falls over

that is it! 
time to warm the bench imo

1 hour ago, turnyitb said:

Playing out of position is no excuse whatsoever his form is dreadful!

receives the ball, runs into a player,falls over

that is it! 
time to warm the bench imo

Being at such a good City side hid the fact he is pretty poor footballer.

2 hours ago, turnyitb said:

Playing out of position is no excuse whatsoever his form is dreadful!

receives the ball, runs into a player,falls over

that is it! 
time to warm the bench imo

The swear box ( if I had one) would be full today after his performance. 

How he gets a full 90 mins today i have no idea. 
offers nothing, looks disillusioned and pulls out of challenges on a regular basis 

Just now, turnyitb said:

How he gets a full 90 mins today i have no idea. 
offers nothing, looks disillusioned and pulls out of challenges on a regular basis 

His lack of effort today was shocking. It's obvious he doesn't want to be here. Can't blame him either. After a good start to the season under Tuchel Potter comes along and plays him at wingback.

Bet he wishes he'd never left City.

2 minutes ago, reparto corse said:

His lack of effort today was shocking. It's obvious he doesn't want to be here. Can't blame him either. After a good start to the season under Tuchel Potter comes along and plays him at wingback.

Under Tuchel, he at the very least played in his strongest position. 

Under Potter, he's either wingback or hugging the touchline as a traditional winger FFS.