2 hours ago, Whats_The_Mata? said:

Don't even have to go that far back.

Mudryks performance vs Boro was far worse than any performance in Sterlings entire career.

Mudryk was terrible in that match, but at no point did he snatch the ball out of the hands of our penalty taker and then f**k up the spot kick.

9 minutes ago, Gonoir Beniashile said:

Mudryk was terrible in that match, but at no point did he snatch the ball out of the hands of our penalty taker and then f**k up the spot kick.

Sterlings is definitely the worst I've ever seen by a player who played for more than 45 minutes. 

His FFP book value will be around £30m (£50m divided 5 year contract). He’s been here 2 years. 
 

£30m for an unwanted 29 year old? He’s going nowhere unfortunately. We’re stuck with him. 
 

Gotta Tuchel has done us over there. He wanted him. 

Hideous player that we never should have signed in the place. Made to look FAR better than he is in the City team which create countless chances every game, so he could afford to miss 5 each game and still bags 1. Fully blame Tuchel for this awful transfer and most of that initial first summer window.

Need to find a way to get rid of those awful wages, im praying Saudi come in with a offer that he cant refuse.

18 minutes ago, JM7 said:

His FFP book value will be around £30m (£50m divided 5 year contract). He’s been here 2 years. 
 

£30m for an unwanted 29 year old? He’s going nowhere unfortunately. We’re stuck with him. 
 

Gotta Tuchel has done us over there. He wanted him. 

Saudi can save us I think, hes still at a decent age for that league and is a big name. I dont think hes a Muslim though so may not be ideal for him personally,  but when huge money comes knocking would he say no?

12 hours ago, abister1 said:

There is no scenario, as long as it relates to football that it is okay to boo your own player during a game.

Absolutely none!

For those of you that rationalise or condone it, you don't know what it means to be a fan. 

You think you do, but you really don't. 

Sure he is gash at the moment, but some of the points on the board he won for us at moments of better form and even if he hasn't done so, there is no justification for booing your team mate during a game. 

Because guess what, in that stadium we are their team mates. Collectively we are the 12th man. When they miss a goal or have brain farts, we don't make it harder for them to overcome the moment with the way we react by booing. Instead we lift them up by doing our job even though they aren't doing theirs. 

And our job is to support. 

All of this "you don't know what it means to be a fan" is complete horsesh*t. You don't get to tell match going fans that spend hundreds of pounds and travel up and down the country how to voice their disappointment. They make massive commitments in their life to follow the team, they have every right to boo a player they feel isn't repaying that commitment.

Are you going to tell the Dortmund, Galatasary, Flamengo fans that they don't know what it means to be a fan? They will boo their players much more severely if they feel their player isn't 100% committed to the shirt. I don't want a player that is only playing for himself, and that is what I feel we are getting from Sterling. I don't like booing players that are playing bad but trying their best for the team, but I don't see that from Sterling. His actions tell me he is playing for himself.

What happened yesterday wasn't a reaction to one moment, it's a reaction to seeing a player consistently be selfish throughout the season. He didn't help himself by showing the exact same selfishness literally one game before. That compounded things and the fans had enough of it. Why do you expect the fans to clap like seals when a player is constantly putting himself before the team?

Edited March 18, 20242 yr by Scott Harris

12 hours ago, abister1 said:

Great. Go into work everyday and get dogs abuse at your work. 

Just great. 

That would actually be the best thing that could happen if I would be so sh*t at doing my job and show the same attitude as Sterling.

Wake up and smell the coffee boss. Sterling is privileged to have this job knowing he could be abysmal and show zero character and still pocket his 350k every week.

For me and you and others it is a hustle out there and we'd lose our jobs if we were that bad and mos def our resumes would take a massive hit and we'd struggle for future jobs.

Why would it be different for Sterling? He plays for the club I love and invest my feelings in and he is absolute trash and looks like he does not even give a single f**k. He only came here for a one last massive contract and if you can't see this then it's your problem, not mine.

2 hours ago, Gonoir Beniashile said:

Mudryk was terrible in that match, but at no point did he snatch the ball out of the hands of our penalty taker and then f**k up the spot kick.

Snatched the ball out of the hands of our penalty taker... I missed that bit, I had had a few by then, what a scumbag - no wonder he was getting boo'd - should just use him as a sub until we can get rid of him - he's a childish little prik who cannot live with the fact that Palmer is everything he isn't.

20 hours ago, abister1 said:

Football isn't just all talent, skill, performance or whatever tangible you want to assign to it. 

The intangible is the psychology of it and whilst it might hold a smaller significance, it's ramifications are huge and it is directly affected by what's going on in the external environment apart from the actual football, ie the "noise" around the players and games. 

We need the right kind of noise to help with conditioning and guess what, booing isn't the right kind. 

Sterling is dog sh*t, I scream at my telly and shake my fists and mutter all manner of abuse but guess what I'd never do so if I was in the stadium because it doesn't help. 

I'm not virtue signalling or telling people not to boo if that's why floats their boats but I am letting them know there is no justification for it think what you may. 

Nothing can make me change my view on this and no matter the entitlement some feel they have to boo their team because they paid money to watch people who earn a kings ransom, it is wrong. 

Football is a ruthless sport and these players are paid obscene amounts of money to be involved at this level. You can't just wrap everyone in cotton wool and say 'ooh hard luck, go again next time' when they're constantly f**king up or they'll never learn. There needs to be a level of accountability and Poch certainly isn't instilling that in the players with him constantly picking Sterling on reputation rather than performance. The booing is as much on Poch for not dragging Sterling off at half time, if Poch isn't going to hold them accountable, its a good job the die hard fans will. 

20 hours ago, abister1 said:

Yes because you are a hindrance, you don't know what the meaning of a fan is and you don't deserve to be a fan so I'll ban you and refund your pitiful pounds which you feel entitle you to come and boo the team. 

Okay, Adolf. 

Abister's way or no way from now on 😴

14 hours ago, Phillip said:

Bakayoko v. Watford was 100 times, no, 1000 times, worse.

This, and this every time.

No performance in recent times has ever compared to that Bakayoko performance. It was so bad that we actually played better after he got sent off. Bakayoko is by far the worst Chelsea player I've watched. 

I hope to god nothing will ever surpass that monstrosity of a performance, Sterling or Mudryk's certainly didn't. 

Carney Chukwuemeka says he and his Chelsea team-mates will "stay behind" Raheem Sterling after the England forward endured a difficult afternoon during Sunday's FA Cup quarter-final win over Leicester.

Sterling missed a penalty and fired wide when clean through on goal in the first half before blazing a promising free-kick into the stands in the second.

Mauricio Pochettino was loudly jeered when he withdrew Mykhailo Mudryk rather than Sterling for Chukwuemeka with 10 minutes left and Sterling was audibly booed when taken off minutes later.

"Raheem is an experienced player - he's had an amazing career," Chukwuemeka said, after he scored his side's decisive third goal. "We know what a great footballer he is. He's contributed to goals, assists and won so many penalties for the team this season.

"It happens. He's human. Players miss chances [or] have an off day. We stay behind him. He still got an assist for Cole Palmer's goal.

"For us youngsters, especially me, Noni [Madueke] and Cole, he's helped us a lot since we came. He's always on at us, showing us what we can do better, what we can improve on. That's outside of football as well as in."

3 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Carney Chukwuemeka says he and his Chelsea team-mates will "stay behind" Raheem Sterling after the England forward endured a difficult afternoon during Sunday's FA Cup quarter-final win over Leicester.

Sterling missed a penalty and fired wide when clean through on goal in the first half before blazing a promising free-kick into the stands in the second.

Mauricio Pochettino was loudly jeered when he withdrew Mykhailo Mudryk rather than Sterling for Chukwuemeka with 10 minutes left and Sterling was audibly booed when taken off minutes later.

"Raheem is an experienced player - he's had an amazing career," Chukwuemeka said, after he scored his side's decisive third goal. "We know what a great footballer he is. He's contributed to goals, assists and won so many penalties for the team this season.

"It happens. He's human. Players miss chances [or] have an off day. We stay behind him. He still got an assist for Cole Palmer's goal.

"For us youngsters, especially me, Noni [Madueke] and Cole, he's helped us a lot since we came. He's always on at us, showing us what we can do better, what we can improve on. That's outside of football as well as in."

I've slagged Sterling off for a while now, and I'm not going to judge any of the fans that boo him that is their right. But I'm happy that the players are sticking up for him, it shows a lot, it's what they have to do. 

This narrative we've built up that he's not committed is quite something.

Literally everything coming out from the media, manager and his team mates say otherwise.

He's no different to what he was under City and he's just simply a player out of form that's trying to get the pressure off his shoulders and that means sometimes he's doing the wrong thing.

Edited March 19, 20242 yr by Sheva

1 minute ago, Sheva said:

This narrative we've built up that he's not committed is quite something.

Literally everything coming out from the media, manager and his team mates say otherwise.

He's no different to what he was under City and he's just simply a player out of form that's trying to get the pressure off his shoulders and that means sometimes he's doing the wrong thing.

I don't know for definite that he's uncommitted. But I do know that on the pitch he's been crap, he's been lazy, he's pulled out of many challenges. He's had about 5 moments where he should've squared the ball but instead went for goal which has cost us points. And his body language isn't well received by many including me, I don't like to see a player smirk every time they lose the ball or miss a sitter. 

There are valid reasons why fans are pissed off with Sterling and why some are questioning his commitment to the team. 

18 minutes ago, Victor90 said:

I don't know for definite that he's uncommitted. But I do know that on the pitch he's been crap, he's been lazy, he's pulled out of many challenges. He's had about 5 moments where he should've squared the ball but instead went for goal which has cost us points. And his body language isn't well received by many including me, I don't like to see a player smirk every time they lose the ball or miss a sitter. 

There are valid reasons why fans are pissed off with Sterling and why some are questioning his commitment to the team. 

If Sterling finished 2 of his chances we're likely talking about him being man of the match for the game, it's fine lines. He's one of our only attacking threats that finds himself in good positions. Have you noticed it always ends up at his feet? That's a skill because his movement is better than the rest of our attacking options but he has no confidence whatsoever and usually the chances he finishes which are instinctive ones he's fluffing those as well.

Palmer is also half arsed defensivley and Mudryk most of the time doesn't know what he's doing. The difference is Palmer is in the form of his life so we don't care and Mudryk is young and we want him to do well but at 23 years old he should know more.

Sterling is playing no differently to how he played under City, he's just simply out of form and making poor decisions.

Haaland smirks when he misses? Some players react differently.

Edited March 19, 20242 yr by Sheva

45 minutes ago, Sheva said:

This narrative we've built up that he's not committed is quite something.

Literally everything coming out from the media, manager and his team mates say otherwise.

He's no different to what he was under City and he's just simply a player out of form that's trying to get the pressure off his shoulders and that means sometimes he's doing the wrong thing.

Don’t you know certain fans know more about the club than the people within the club!!!

It’s also a great way to affect team moral.

30 minutes ago, El regreso said:

Don’t you know certain fans know more about the club than the people within the club!!!

It’s also a great way to affect team moral.

Yes, because the club has been ran so spectacularly since Roman left...

So the salary talk: so it appears a chuck of his salary goes to help fund 14 students to Kings College London and University of Manchester.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if even one of the people booing him Sterling is directly helping via his salary assisting their son/daughter through university.

4 minutes ago, El regreso said:

So the salary talk: so it appears a chuck of his salary goes to help fund 14 students to Kings College London and University of Manchester.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if even one of the people booing him Sterling is directly helping via his salary assisting their son/daughter through university.

That's good and everything but its 0.008% of his yearly salary. Its the bare minimum i'd expect from any full time professional footballer. 

Not really relevant to his performances on the pitch, which is the talking point. 

55 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

That's good and everything but its 0.008% of his yearly salary. Its the bare minimum i'd expect from any full time professional footballer. 

Not really relevant to his performances on the pitch, which is the talking point. 

His salary is consistently brought into the argument so it’s very relevant.

Once fans have gone dowb the slippery slope of booing their own, they will rationalise and justify their actions. Be it through his salary, his face being twisted a particular way, his commitment to the team, how he heaves his huge backside around, anything will be used to justify it. 

It doesn't matter what you say, it is to defend their action which I suspect deep down they know they're crossing a line that generally shouldn't be crossed. 

I do feel for him because he probably won't come out of it now, we might get moments of sparkle here and then but generally in life, not just football, when the people you expect the most to be your rock take away that support, it's very hard to come back from. 

Shame really. 

1 hour ago, RIP Mourinho said:

That's good and everything but its 0.008% of his yearly salary. Its the bare minimum i'd expect from any full time professional footballer. 

Not really relevant to his performances on the pitch, which is the talking point. 

Like I said, it's his selfishness that really irks me. 

 

2 minutes ago, abister1 said:

Once fans have gone dowb the slippery slope of booing their own, they will rationalise and justify their actions. Be it through his salary, his face being twisted a particular way, his commitment to the team, how he heaves his huge backside around, anything will be used to justify it. 

It doesn't matter what you say, it is to defend their action which I suspect deep down they know they're crossing a line that generally shouldn't be crossed. 

I do feel for him because he probably won't come out of it now, we might get moments of sparkle here and then but generally in life, not just football, when the people you expect the most to be your rock take away that support, it's very hard to come back from. 

Shame really. 

I think they were booing the stupid manager, not Stirling. Poch doesn't know what he's doing