LOL. That'll be when he's in Madrid.
This sums up the whole blind faith "I'm sure he'll come good again" defence of Sterling. What he did last season, or the seasons before, has little bearing on what he's doing now. Otherwise we'd still be playing Franny Lee.
He's the second highest paid player in the squad but he seemingly lacks or can't apply the technical skills that a 10 year old in the Academy is expected to possess and apply, such as controlling a ball when standing still and running. He struggles against the better teams and usually has, even in his better periods. His whole professional skill set is lacking at the moment.
He can't get a shot on target from more than 8 yards. He lacks the composure and confidence to take a shot quickly or on the run. You know that every time he carves out a chance for himself, he's going to stop and check back. Sometimes he gets away with it but more often he messes up. He can't do what Foden did on Tuesday, which is accelerate and beat two men.
And this has been going on all this season and most of last. Yes he got 20 goals but it should have been 30. We've known his weaknesses for a while but we've overlooked them because he's usually done enough to warrant that. But he's not doing enough now and hasn't been for a while. He had a semi-decent game in thr League Cup semi-final and that's about it. That might be OK if we were paying him £70k a week but he's a senior member of the squad and supposed to be a leader, yet he's serving up one utter dross performance after another. He's contributing zilch and we're playing with 10 men when he starts.
This situation reminds me of Negredo, who was on fire for half a season then had his injury, plus his alleged personal issues, and we never saw anything like that from him after.
He's simply a luxury we can't afford and if I was Txiki Begiristain I'd be looking to get better value for money. I've even said that I reckon his head is somewhere else, as this is far too like his final season at Liverpool. I reckon he's made up his mind to move on and I think a change of scenery might do him good.
The Ibiza sun is getting to you Ahsan. This is a repeat of his 2014/15 final season at Liverpool, where he suddenly turned to shit. All players have bad patches, including even KDB & Aguero. But Sterling's head has gone completely and you just don't want to see it.Yes because that’s how football works. Sterling is shit, can’t do the basics, is on a contract he’s not worth, but Madrid will swoop in and sign him for loads of money they don’t have.
All you’re doing here is reinforcing my initial response to you. Raz is going nowhere. Absolutely nowhere. You can hope wish dream but it isn’t happening. Sorry.
The Ibiza sun is getting to you Ahsan. This is a repeat of his 2014/15 final season at Liverpool, where he suddenly turned to shit. All players have bad patches, including even KDB & Aguero. But Sterling's head has gone completely and you just don't want to see it.
Probably cos he's got better ball control and will run himself into the ground for the cause.How come Bernardo didn’t get this same kind of commentary when he was crap for 14 months?
Probably cos he's got better ball control and will run himself into the ground for the cause.
Once he got over the "media slur" of being accused of being racist, you knew you would get a very good player back.
We don't even know why Sterling as turned crap
Because Pep started playing him in midfield again instead of stuck out on the right wing as he was for the previous yearProbably cos he's got better ball control and will run himself into the ground for the cause.
Once he got over the "media slur" of being accused of being racist, you knew you would get a very good player back.
We don't even know why Sterling as turned crap
That's quite simple. He never got the run of games Sterling was afforded to regain his form.How come Bernardo didn’t get this same kind of commentary when he was crap for 14 months?
So thats what must be effecting his game now thenSterling has faced more media abuse than our entire playing squad combined.
So we should cut him some slack then for not being able to control the ball, fail to hit a barn door and run up blind alleys and blame Pep for all of the aboveBecause Pep started playing him in midfield again instead of stuck out on the right wing as he was for the previous year
Spot on. I am tired of lazy journalists saying (not of Sterling, but generally of young players) "he will only get better". What nonsense. Some players plateau and some get worse. I wonder if Chelsea thought "he will only get better" or "he will bounce back" when they bought Torres from Chelsea? How did that turn out.No. The problem is you don’t always KNOW whether a particular player will bounce back.
That’s because he wasn’t crap for 14 months.How come Bernardo didn’t get this same kind of commentary when he was crap for 14 months?
Let's pose a hypothetical (but maybe not that hypothetical) question. There's a meeting in the boardroom with Soriano, Begiristain, Guardiola, De Vries, Berrada, the CFG and City finance guys and they're planning out the summer transfer activity.
Txiki says "We've got a deal for Haaland pretty well hammered out but I need to know if we can afford it and meet FFP" The Finance guys say "Losing Aguero helps but it's not enough so we'd have to sell Sterling to be sure. He's only on the books at a nominal value so a fee over £65-70m will do it easily, which we believe we should easily be able to get."
Do they say "Nah, we'll keep Sterling and offer him more as he might come good again next season even though he hasn't really been on great form the last 2 seasons"? Or do they say "We're getting a proven top-class goal-scorer who fills Aguero's position and who we'll hopefully keep for 10 seasons as well. Let's do it"?