1 hour ago, The Boehly Babes said:

Sterling isn’t the issue.

Whoever game him the contract is.

Why should he have to fly back after every game when he can just stay in London all week by not going there?

He signed a contract with BlueCo CFC LDN for x years at x amount a week. He’s entitled to that. Just because the Hedge fund has changed its mind and doesn’t want him anymore, that’s their issue not his.

Find it bizarre to have a go at the player when it’s the club forcing him out.

You're right in that he can do what he wants, he isn't obliged to leave and can just collect his paycheck. However, as a professional it shows the kind of player he is. He has fully checked out of being a footballer and it shows, to be quite honest I don't know why any team in London would even want to bother with him, he has no interest in playing football anymore.

Raheem Sterling MBE is 31. A bit young to retire maybe, but not sure why he would disrupt is lucrative life to play in another town/country. The mistake is with the club and not the player. In 1.5 seasons he could join a club on a FREE.

Maybe he should try to get his career back on track and try to make it into the England World cup squad? - not as silly as it sounds, as Tuchel was always a fan of his.

34 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

No chance, 10 goals and 11 assists in his last season with us. Pedro Neto hasn't got that return in his entire career and he gets POTS shouts.

Got stupidly shut out by the owners instead of keeping him in the squad. Paid far too much but nowhere near our worst player/signing.

And publicly announced it in such a way that a climbdown from the then manager was not possible. Serves these fckers right. Content creators spending the last two years announcing that he is leaving, just assuming that he will. We paid Arsenal to not play him.

He should take up golf and see if there a spot for him with Gareth Bale on the circuit, whilst this lot pay him for it.

Edited January 20Jan 20 by WhiteWall

32 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

You're right in that he can do what he wants, he isn't obliged to leave and can just collect his paycheck. However, as a professional it shows the kind of player he is. He has fully checked out of being a footballer and it shows, to be quite honest I don't know why any team in London would even want to bother with him, he has no interest in playing football anymore.

Would we say the same about Hazard after he went to Madrid?

29 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

You're right in that he can do what he wants, he isn't obliged to leave and can just collect his paycheck. However, as a professional it shows the kind of player he is. He has fully checked out of being a footballer and it shows, to be quite honest I don't know why any team in London would even want to bother with him, he has no interest in playing football anymore.

It a company signs me to a lucrative contract and after a year doesn’t want me anymore but can’t get rid of me I am staying put until my contract is finished. The fact I also have won everything I need to win makes it even worst that am not leaving.

It says nothing about him professionally

4 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Would we say the same about Hazard after he went to Madrid?

No

As Ultra Capitalists , BlueCo should know morality doesn't come into it. , if the contract is legal and sound, Sterling is entitled to extract as much money as he can .

That's the philosophy that drives these people, Sterling as well as BlueCo. .

But he was a needless signing. A player with his best days behind him and burned out / lacking hunger on ridiculous wages. That's what I mean by worst signing - he might have got a few goals and assists when he first came, but in terms of cost he has been a massive waste of money.

But he does at least have the honour of hitting the worst free-kick I have ever seen in my life!!

Edited January 20Jan 20 by Nibs

Needs to be rehabilitaed into the squad. Has been, past it, legs gone, still more effective at Box crashing than Enzo and gets to the near or back stick to finish, something we've not had in the side since he was farmed out on loan. Hes won a lot and is a proven winner in that regards, something we're missing, he has experience, something were missing.

He definittely needs a new club, but given how our options are Nacho, Neto, Gittens, He could do well to teach these guys how to arrive late into the box. Dont see what harm it does bringing him back into the fold especiallt if were chasing top 4.... his T-rex arms while running also entertinan me.

1 hour ago, Nibs said:

But he was a needless signing. A player with his best days behind him and burned out / lacking hunger on ridiculous wages. That's what I mean by worst signing - he might have got a few goals and assists when he first came, but in terms of cost he has been a massive waste of money.

But he does at least have the honour of hitting the worst free-kick I have ever seen in my life!!

😂 Hadn't he missed a penalty then insisted on taking that free kick and ballooned it high and wide ?

35 minutes ago, bluelightening said:

Needs to be rehabilitaed into the squad. Has been, past it, legs gone, still more effective at Box crashing than Enzo and gets to the near or back stick to finish, something we've not had in the side since he was farmed out on loan. Hes won a lot and is a proven winner in that regards, something we're missing, he has experience, something were missing.

He definittely needs a new club, but given how our options are Nacho, Neto, Gittens, He could do well to teach these guys how to arrive late into the box. Dont see what harm it does bringing him back into the fold especiallt if were chasing top 4.... his T-rex arms while running also entertinan me.

T rex arms 😂

1 hour ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Would we say the same about Hazard after he went to Madrid?

In what way?

All academic anyway ... it seems the Rosenior "clean slate" does not apply to Raheem ... and it is just Axel "I concede goals for fun in the under-21" Disasi who is going to be re-integrated !

And with that one fell swoop, BlueCo have "fixed" our centre back problem with an internal solution LOL.

Edited January 20Jan 20 by Sexyfootball

1 hour ago, El regreso said:

It a company signs me to a lucrative contract and after a year doesn’t want me anymore but can’t get rid of me I am staying put until my contract is finished. The fact I also have won everything I need to win makes it even worst that am not leaving.

It says nothing about him professionally

I don't think this scenario is the same or even a correct comparison. We could get rid of Sterling if he wanted to leave but he doesn't want to. As I said in my original post, he has every right to do what he's doing, but it just means that he really has no interest in playing football anymore.

15 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

All academic anyway ... it seems the Rosenior "clean slate" does not apply to Raheem ... and it is just Axel "I concede goals for fun in the under-21" Disasi who is going to be re-integrated !

And with that one fell swoop, BlueCo have "fixed" our centre back problem with an internal solution LOL.

If football IS entertainment... Come on his OG against Liecester was brilliant... Its up there with sinclair's and burley's efforts decades ago. Long Live Disasi..

Edited January 20Jan 20 by bluelightening

6 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

No

Hypocritical then. Both effectively ended their careers early to see out their big salaries when they could have moved.

4 hours ago, timetowaste said:

In what way?

Both effectively retired and sat on fat contracts when they could have taken a pay cut and carried on playing. Hazard was on the bench 42 times in his last season at Madrid and only missed 4 games through injury. He could have easily gone back to Lille if he wanted to continue playing.

4 hours ago, timetowaste said:

I don't think this scenario is the same or even a correct comparison. We could get rid of Sterling if he wanted to leave but he doesn't want to. As I said in my original post, he has every right to do what he's doing, but it just means that he really has no interest in playing football anymore.

If we really wanted him to leave we could pay off the remainder of his contract.

6 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

As Ultra Capitalists , BlueCo should know morality doesn't come into it. , if the contract is legal and sound, Sterling is entitled to extract as much money as he can .

That's the philosophy that drives these people, Sterling as well as BlueCo. .

Haven't BlueCo done the same by putting Boehly into their bomb squad. We've not seen hide nor hair of him, yet he's still picking up his dough for doing fck all.

6 hours ago, Nibs said:

But he was a needless signing. A player with his best days behind him and burned out / lacking hunger on ridiculous wages. That's what I mean by worst signing - he might have got a few goals and assists when he first came, but in terms of cost he has been a massive waste of money.

But he does at least have the honour of hitting the worst free-kick I have ever seen in my life!!

I don't think he was burnt out at all. I think he was 28 when he joined wasn't he. The reality is other than a couple of purple patches when the flow of traffic was going in his direction, he's always been a one trick pony and Boehly can't really be blamed for being gaslit on Youtube videos and sh*t punditry.

He was to Boehly what Fernandez is to Egbhali. I remember him being flown out to LA doing the Dodgers photo shoots etc, as the marquee senior signing. The reality is the bloke has always been limited. Shame that those that have followed can't even surpass the meagre return we got from Sterling.

27 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Both effectively retired and sat on fat contracts when they could have taken a pay cut and carried on playing. Hazard was on the bench 42 times in his last season at Madrid and only missed 4 games through injury. He could have easily gone back to Lille if he wanted to continue playing.

I'd say it's a little different because of his injuries, but yeah he did check out which is evident considering he retired as soon as Madrid let him go.

31 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

If we really wanted him to leave we could pay off the remainder of his contract.

Which is probably what we'll end up doing, but if that happens I wouldn't touch him if I were any other club even on a free.

10 hours ago, timetowaste said:

I'd say it's a little different because of his injuries, but yeah he did check out which is evident considering he retired as soon as Madrid let him go.

Which is probably what we'll end up doing, but if that happens I wouldn't touch him if I were any other club even on a free.

Hazard got injured, Sterling regressed after playing so much football so young. Both players bodies gave up on them and they weren't the player the club thought they were getting and both sat on fat contracts until they retired.

We can't praise Hazard and lambast Sterling for the same. Our anger should be at the owners for handling it all so poorly, Raheem is doing nothing that we all wouldn't do in his position.

20 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Hazard got injured, Sterling regressed after playing so much football so young. Both players bodies gave up on them and they weren't the player the club thought they were getting and both sat on fat contracts until they retired.

We can't praise Hazard and lambast Sterling for the same. Our anger should be at the owners for handling it all so poorly, Raheem is doing nothing that we all wouldn't do in his position.

I didn't praise Hazard, I said he checked out, but I think it was different because he had a bad injury and as far as we know Sterling is fit and healthy. Sterling also had a chance last season to play football in London at a title contender while receiving his contracted wage which is allegedly his perfect scenario, and he barely got off the bench.

You can say Boehly was idiotic for giving him his contract while acknowledging Sterling has no real interest being a professional footballer anymore, I don't think it's a one or the other.

The Hazard transfer was very painful for Real Madrid/Perez, which is another feather to Eden's bow LOL !

£103.5m fee

£500K a week for 4 years (another £100m odd)

About £30m per Eden goal basically !

3 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

The Hazard transfer was very painful for Real Madrid/Perez, which is another feather to Eden's bow LOL !

£103.5m fee

£500K a week for 4 years (another £100m odd)

About £30m per Eden goal basically !

If he hadnt left he wouldn't have been injured. that's how I see it.