#7 | Raheem Sterling - 2021/22 Performances

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samuelyeboah said:
assuming no last minute heroics where we sign a striker, a lot of our success this season will depend on his form. I hope he can rediscover it but have faith in him.
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He hasn't lost his form as a striker,yeah he misses a few.....but he gets on the end of our play as well as anyone.
 
I am praying for a stunner season from striker sterling. Only he can save us.
 
FantasyIreland said:
He hasn't lost his form as a striker,yeah he misses a few.....but he gets on the end of our play as well as anyone.
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Wouldn’t mind us giving it a try with the limited options we’ll have there. Not convinced it would work though
 
We have to experiment in the striker position anyways, Sterling and Ferran are our best bets if Jesus is playing on the wing.
 
Craig said:
Wouldn’t mind us giving it a try with the limited options we’ll have there. Not convinced it would work though
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What exactly wouldnt work? getting close to an unprecedented season of success and winning 2 trophies again?

You make it sound like we need Sterling or one of our other attackers to be a success as an out and out striker,when the evidence states we really don't - it would just be a bonus.
 
He did score 31 goals a couple of years ago, 25 the year before that and 23 the year before again. If we assume last season was the anomaly, then he should hopefully rack up a decent tally over the season.
 
FantasyIreland said:
What exactly wouldnt work? getting close to an unprecedented season of success and winning 2 trophies again?

You make it sound like we need Sterling or one of our other attackers to be a success as an out and out striker,when the evidence states we really don't - it would just be a bonus.
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I’m on about Sterling as a striker. His best asset is his pace and his 2nd best asset is his movement. Now from the left which isn’t particularly a position I like him playing but if we have a proper striker to occupy defenders his movement and pace gets him a shit load of tap ins. He’s harder for defenders to pick him up when he’s able to ghost in after starting from a wider position as opposed to centrally. As seen during the Euros he had a proper striker up there and he was bagging again. Key difference with England was also teams weren’t sitting as deep as they do against us so he could run in behind easier.Last season when most the time we didn’t have a proper striker he scored less.

The reason I said it would be worth a try but I’m not convinced it would work with him upfront for us is he’s not going to hold the ball up well and link the play. He’s also rarely going to have space to run in behind as teams park the bus. If we‘re ahead especially against half decent teams who then have to push up then yes he’d be a great option. Maybe he’ll play upfront and his movement will be that good the goals flow. Time will tell but I wouldn’t have chanced missing out on world class strikers for this particular experiment.
 
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As several posters has mentioned in this post Raz is capable of hitting 25 goals a season. Got to remain optimistic that he achieve that and carry his international form to City.
 
Have a feeling he'll play a lot more as a striker this year and I'm here for it.

While his finishing might not always be the best, his intelligence and movement around the box is top, confident he would get 15-20 goals playing striker all season for us.
 
I have zero confidence in him anymore as a winger, he doesn't do the things that made him dangerous anymore, he thinks he's a foden/mahrez/Grealish etc coming to the ball when his strengths are his movement behind. Despite the fact his finishing is by far his weakest aspect of his game I'd be playing him upfront. Has to be a better option than the invisible ferr(m)an.
 
Clembo said:
Have a feeling he'll play a lot more as a striker this year and I'm here for it.

While his finishing might not always be the best, his intelligence and movement around the box is top, confident he would get 15-20 goals playing striker all season for us.
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With the arrival of Grealish, the continued progression of Foden, the new wide man Jesus, of course KDB and Mahrez, and to a lesser extent Gundogan and Cancelo, we have A LOT of creativity throughout the team all of a sudden, even compared to last season.

We probably don't need to play with a striker as deep/false 9 as often anymore. Players like Torres, Sterling, and Delap can really benefit from all of this with their abilities to get in the right place at the right time.

I think we lose something with Sterling up top as far as movement is concerned, BUT with how much creativity we have, I think this is the first time since Pep's arrived that centre Sterling could feasibly work.
 
mccity said:
With the arrival of Grealish, the continued progression of Foden, the new wide man Jesus, of course KDB and Mahrez, and to a lesser extent Gundogan and Cancelo, we have A LOT of creativity throughout the team all of a sudden, even compared to last season.

We probably don't need to play with a striker as deep/false 9 as often anymore. Players like Torres, Sterling, and Delap can really benefit from all of this with their abilities to get in the right place at the right time.

I think we lose something with Sterling up top as far as movement is concerned, BUT with how much creativity we have, I think this is the first time since Pep's arrived that centre Sterling could feasibly work.
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What the fuck are you on about? It's the same team add Grealish who is very very similar to Bernardo. How are we much much more creative? Delap? lol
 
VinceYoungisaBLUE said:
What the fuck are you on about? It's the same team add Grealish who is very very similar to Bernardo. How are we much much more creative? Delap? lol
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Grealish is more direct than Bernardo. Bernardo barely scores or assists, Grealish does it for fun.

The addition of Grealish hopefully means Bernie permanently playing deeper rather than higher this season.

They can both play together. And since both rarely lose the ball our possession game goes up.
 
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FantasyIreland said:
What exactly wouldnt work? getting close to an unprecedented season of success and winning 2 trophies again?

You make it sound like we need Sterling or one of our other attackers to be a success as an out and out striker,when the evidence states we really don't - it would just be a bonus.
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Last year is not this year. Can we rely on gundog for 13 goals when he's never done it before last year?
 
madloaf said:
Last year is not this year. Can we rely on gundog for 13 goals when he's never done it before last year?
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We will be absolutely fine for goals over the entire season, mate.

Do you know the last time we weren't the top scorers in the Premier League? Pep's first season. Do you know when the previous time was? When Mancini was here.

Whether or not we'll get the goals when it matters in the big games without that focal point in attack is another matter but over the entirety of the season, chances are that we'll be putting up the best numbers once again.
 
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It's obvious Pep doesn't see Sterling now as an automatic starter anymore. If my memory is right Sterling didn't start the last 6 or 7 games last season apart from the CL final & he hasn't yet started this season.
 
hihosilva said:
It's obvious Pep doesn't see Sterling now as an automatic starter anymore. If my memory is right Sterling didn't start the last 6 or 7 games last season apart from the CL final & he hasn't yet started this season.
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He's definitely in the dog house and this is also while Phil is currently out. He's going to have to take his chances whenever they come this season.
 
hihosilva said:
It's obvious Pep doesn't see Sterling now as an automatic starter anymore. If my memory is right Sterling didn't start the last 6 or 7 games last season apart from the CL final & he hasn't yet started this season.
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I wonder if it's linked to his contract situation?
 
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