52 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

How many years are we stuck with him for?

 

38 minutes ago, ducavis said:

4yrs with an option of an extra year. Fack me just checked we are stuck with him till 2027. He is already in semi-retirement mode, and you can see the desire and hunger is gone. The signing was questionable because who leave a winning team for an also ran at his peak?

 

29 minutes ago, big blue said:

So weak on the ball. Never goes past his man. Tonight it was like watching a south american 18 year old thrown into his 1st game in english football, but with none of moments of flair that give you optimism. 

Didnt want him in the summer, never rated him. Still dont. 

 

19 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Wanted Jesus over him because aside the notion that I felt Jesus was a better fit for us, you knew Jesus would always give 100%. 

Sterling evidently is putting half arsed performances and until he is dropped we are going to see the same lethargic attitude. 

Mercenary, just like I called before he joined, have said since, and been told it is a massive over reaction. 

I stand by what I said. Little lukaku without the gob.

1 hour ago, big blue said:

So weak on the ball. Never goes past his man. Tonight it was like watching a south american 18 year old thrown into his 1st game in english football, but with none of moments of flair that give you optimism. 

Didnt want him in the summer, never rated him. Still dont. 

For sure, the complete opposite to what he was as a young player at Liverpool. In those days he was so direct. Would just get the ball and run straight at defenders. Had the pace and skills to go past them easily. His finishing was never the best, but he caused no end of problems for opponents.

That isn't the player we have now. Not by a long way. 

 

He is only effective playing very high and arriving late for tap-ins. He simply cannot dribble with the ball at all, so playing even slightly deeper and being asked to hold the ball up with his backt o goal, and turn and run at players, will see him lose it 9 times out of 10.

At the start of the season I thought he looked decent, but in recent games he's become very lazy and is half-hearttedly strolling around the pitch most of the time.

 

10 minutes ago, Zeta said:

He is only effective playing very high and arriving late for tap-ins. He simply cannot dribble with the ball at all, so playing even slightly deeper and being asked to hold the ball up with his backt o goal, and turn and run at players, will see him lose it 9 times out of 10.

At the start of the season I thought he looked decent, but in recent games he's become very lazy and is half-hearttedly strolling around the pitch most of the time.

 

I don't think he's lazy, I just don't think he is very good. A one trick pony so if you don't play to that trick then he's a passenger.  Never particularly rated him and unfortunately he is living up to expectations 

21 minutes ago, Zeta said:

He is only effective playing very high and arriving late for tap-ins. He simply cannot dribble with the ball at all, so playing even slightly deeper and being asked to hold the ball up with his backt o goal, and turn and run at players, will see him lose it 9 times out of 10.

At the start of the season I thought he looked decent, but in recent games he's become very lazy and is half-hearttedly strolling around the pitch most of the time.

 

He is a poor man's Werner basically lol

2 hours ago, just said:

For sure, the complete opposite to what he was as a young player at Liverpool. In those days he was so direct. Would just get the ball and run straight at defenders. Had the pace and skills to go past them easily. His finishing was never the best, but he caused no end of problems for opponents.

That isn't the player we have now. Not by a long way. 

 

For sure not the same player anymore. But thats why you need to use him in a certain way and I don't think Potter has done so well with Sterling.
To begin the season (under Tuchel) the general consensus was that Sterling was a class above all our other attackers. And so he was from his inside left forward position. Good dribbling, good passing and always looking dangerous.

Today I thought Graham used all wrong. He shouldn't be hugging the right touchline like he's David Beckham looking to whip in a few crosses. He needs to be on the left. Just that would make a big difference in how Sterling will look.

He's not suddenly turned into a poor player. Won't buy that when he was very good to start the season under another manager. When a manager/team really struggles everyone will look poor most of the time. We've seen that countless amount of times at this club over the years.
 

1 hour ago, OriginalS said:

For sure not the same player anymore. But thats why you need to use him in a certain way and I don't think Potter has done so well with Sterling.
To begin the season (under Tuchel) the general consensus was that Sterling was a class above all our other attackers. And so he was from his inside left forward position. Good dribbling, good passing and always looking dangerous.

Today I thought Graham used all wrong. He shouldn't be hugging the right touchline like he's David Beckham looking to whip in a few crosses. He needs to be on the left. Just that would make a big difference in how Sterling will look.

He's not suddenly turned into a poor player. Won't buy that when he was very good to start the season under another manager. When a manager/team really struggles everyone will look poor most of the time. We've seen that countless amount of times at this club over the years.
 

I have said same thing before. Potter isn't using Sterling in his best position. Sterling is a lot better on the LW when running at players. At RW, way too predictable. He is also very one footed. Potter started off playing Sterling in the WB formation but getting close to the attack. Worked well against Salzburg and he scored that game but generally, keeps being thrown all around the place. Try Sterling from the left. His goal ability is significantly reduced when playing from the right.

Sterlings career, when it is all said and done, will have people who are honest saying his best position was not on the right side, nor the left, nor through the middle.

It was coming off the Man City bench as an impact player.

Beyond disappointed with Sterling.  Sure he scored, but the overall lack of output, and honestly, his body language, lack of sprints/runs and overall effort really leave a bad taste with me.  Thought he was a better professional than the version we are seeing. 

1 hour ago, PhilH930 said:

Beyond disappointed with Sterling.  Sure he scored, but the overall lack of output, and honestly, his body language, lack of sprints/runs and overall effort really leave a bad taste with me.  Thought he was a better professional than the version we are seeing. 

There is a reason why he is sold…why we get a city reject is beyond my understanding though

5 hours ago, PhilH930 said:

Beyond disappointed with Sterling.  Sure he scored, but the overall lack of output, and honestly, his body language, lack of sprints/runs and overall effort really leave a bad taste with me.  Thought he was a better professional than the version we are seeing. 

But that for me has always been his game. Can't tackle, can't head, can't shut down, can't sprint for sustained periods and can't pass. Can get to the back post as an overload. That's it. Will score goals fairly regularly but we're getting nothing else.

8 hours ago, cfcforeverfan said:

There is a reason why he is sold…why we get a city reject is beyond my understanding though

The annoying thing is we could have had Zinchenko and Jesus off them, but we chose Sterling. Zinchenko is better and more versatile than Cucurella and Jesus looks head and shoulders above Sterling both out wide and through the middle. Poor planning again.

I doubt we would’ve seen the same Jesus at Chelsea. Sterling was streets ahead when he joined to what he is now.

Something is up because these players don’t just go to sh*t after a month or so.

51 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

The annoying thing is we could have had Zinchenko and Jesus off them, but we chose Sterling. Zinchenko is better and more versatile than Cucurella and Jesus looks head and shoulders above Sterling both out wide and through the middle. Poor planning again.

I don't think we would realistically have got either. Both nailed on Arteta players. Mates and previously worked with him. Could never have seen us getting either.

1 minute ago, WhiteWall said:

I don't think we would realistically have got either. Both nailed on Arteta players. Mates and previously worked with him. Could never have seen us getting either.

We 'were' better, bigger and can offer more money. Could have got them if we wanted.

Thought I read we never even approached Jesus. 

1 hour ago, Mod said:

I doubt we would’ve seen the same Jesus at Chelsea. Sterling was streets ahead when he joined to what he is now.

Something is up because these players don’t just go to sh*t after a month or so.

It was Pep’s system that made him look better, even City fans acknowledged he was average at the basics. You don’t score that much goals and you employer ignores you pay demands. Something was off, and a major red flag was there was no competition for his services which we ignored. 

Maybe Pep benched Sterling because his drive was decreasing? It's becoming evident here looking completely half arsed. City thought they could try and pull the rug under our feet and it worked. 

Genuinely Torres 2.0 

12 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Maybe Pep benched Sterling because his drive was decreasing? It's becoming evident here looking completely half arsed. City thought they could try and pull the rug under our feet and it worked. 

Genuinely Torres 2.0 

For me he's like Pedro in the sense of stick him in a working system he'll do his bit but he'll never be the clutch player who drags under performing sides above their station like what James does and Hazard did.

I know it has to come with the caveat that it's Bornemouth at home but I thought he was excellent in the first half when the whole team were on it.

19 minutes ago, Argo said:

For me he's like Pedro in the sense of stick him in a working system he'll do his bit but he'll never be the clutch player who drags under performing sides above their station like what James does and Hazard did.

I know it has to come with the caveat that it's Bornemouth at home but I thought he was excellent in the first half when the whole team were on it.

Bit of an insult to Pedro that. Pedro always had good work ethic and excellent technique.

25 minutes ago, Argo said:

For me he's like Pedro in the sense of stick him in a working system he'll do his bit but he'll never be the clutch player who drags under performing sides above their station like what James does and Hazard did.

I know it has to come with the caveat that it's Bornemouth at home but I thought he was excellent in the first half when the whole team were on it.

Pedro would always give you 100% though. Sterling, again, just doesn't look arsed.

We are so far behind the likes of City, Liverpool, and now Arsenal in the operational side. 

On 02/01/2023 at 18:34, Mod said:

I doubt we would’ve seen the same Jesus at Chelsea. Sterling was streets ahead when he joined to what he is now.

Something is up because these players don’t just go to sh*t after a month or so.

One of the league’s worst mid field and back 4 to start with.

Hmm they probably would not take out calls now but maybe, maybe we can do a deal with Arsenal for Sterling.

They wanted him in the summer but the priority was Mudryk. Apparently he is joining us now so could we offer to sell their second choice to them for significantly less than Mudryk is costing? And save ourselves from the huge deal we committed to, this undoing one of the 4 huge signing mistakes we made in the summer.

Could be a win win. Arteta gets another ex Pep boy who he knows and experienced head who knows about winning titles and we, well I said it above.

10 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Hmm they probably would not take out calls now but maybe, maybe we can do a deal with Arsenal for Sterling.

They wanted him in the summer but the priority was Mudryk. Apparently he is joining us now so could we offer to sell their second choice to them for significantly less than Mudryk is costing? And save ourselves from the huge deal we committed to, this undoing one of the 4 huge signing mistakes we made in the summer.

Could be a win win. Arteta gets another ex Pep boy who he knows and experienced head who knows about winning titles and we, well I said it above.

Read that they are going for Trossard instead