Raheem Sterling | Joins Chelsea for £50m

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Mariosfireworks said:
I will be sad to see Sterling go, and in my opinion and its only my opinion, in this transfer window we have already lost gabby, Sterling looks gone, and if we loose Ake and potentially bernando, amd there is talk of zinchenco going, then I think we have massively weakened our team
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Out:

Sterling
Jesus
(Zinchenko)
(Steffen)

In:
Haaland
Alvarez
Phillips
(Cucurella)
Ortega

Not a chance we are weaker.

Bernie isn’t going this summer and City have said they’d only sell Ake if we have a replacement lined up.
 
mj1991 said:
A little exaggeration, but I also don't get why are we not going to sign a winger to replace Sterling when we IMO have to. Bernardo's replacement is required if he could go, the same with Ake and Zinchenko. We are so thin and I don't get the idea of having a small squad, especially in the period of April-May.
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You’ve already been told we have 5 players for two wide positions.
 
Sorry to see raz go, operated best with a proper striker and for that reason as much as any other, it's a shame because it would have been good to see if he could get back to his best with haaland in the side. He did have his limitations but he is a very resilient character imo. Wish him all the best with the usual caveat. Two good players gone but great business to get decent fees for them. I find it hard to criticize the club's transfer policy, I've got alot of faith they will get it right. They always seem to. Would be concerned if Bernie left too but it seems unlikely this year. Nothing that hasn't already been said, but my two cents worth.
 
good business and can understand him wanting to go, dont think he was going to get a lot of starts this season. His overall form and confidence has dropped off remarkably the last two seasons, very frustrating player. Always liked him, saw his debut in front of 100K at MCG where he was booed for most of the game from the dim wit pro Real supporters that prob also support Pool. Needs to start regularly to keep his england spot i guess. good luck to him
 
I'm only a little confused as to why he is leaving. I thought it was simply to go back to London or pay increase, which if so then fine, but I am reading reports saying he was unhappy with game time?

He played 3126 minutes last season, of the forwards only Foden (3209) played barely more minutes than him.
 
I guess this the season where we will see if Grealish can come close to justifying that 100 M price tag, quite excited to find out
 
Lord Blue said:
i have a feeling Sterling will be on fire next season. a player with a point to prove.
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He had a point to prove this season when Pep started putting him on the bench more and he didn’t particularly prove it. You look at games where he did start like Wolves away and he was bloody awful.

If he’s on fire next season it will be disappointing to wonder where the fuck that point was while he was our player.

He’ll always have top stats because he has good movement and he’s fast but he’ll never be a top player in my eyes. Good goals and assists numbers that contribute to the overall goal but a frustrating player overall.
 
Georgian Maestro said:
Is that an improvement? I'm not so sure
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Not at all. Haaland of now is an improvement on Aguero at the end of his career.

The other 3, nowhere near, whichever way you arrange them. Plus, Palmer isn't a new addition, he is already here.

I still think we will sign another attacking player though. The club won't want to 'adapt', with this level of squad now, the adapting had been done.
 
mj1991 said:
A little exaggeration, but I also don't get why are we not going to sign a winger to replace Sterling when we IMO have to. Bernardo's replacement is required if he could go, the same with Ake and Zinchenko. We are so thin and I don't get the idea of having a small squad, especially in the period of April-May.
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We already signed Bernardo’s replacement for £100m last Summer and Bernardo is still here.

Plus…
Left forward options: Foden Grealish Alvarez Bernardo
Right forward options: Mahrez Foden Alvarez Palmer Bernardo

There’s a lot of forward rotation options there. What it really needs is Grealish to have a good season and Alvarez and Palmer to have a breakthrough season. Not guaranteed at all, but we definitely have many options.
 
See how long the Chelsea fans put up with Raz arriving in the box 3 seconds after the ball has rolled cross the six yard box . That sounds harsh on Raz who has been a great servant to City, but let's be honest how many times have we watched that scenario ?
 
LucahArchie10 said:
Let's hope he doesn't talk shit to the media like Milner
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Milner has never really said anything. We’ve proper overrracted about that.

All he said was that Liverpool has the best team spirit of any team he’s ever played in and some of our fans got all sensitive about it and thought he was having a go at us.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
What it really needs is Grealish to have a good season and Alvarez and Palmer to have a breakthrough season.
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Very much so. All 3 big big big ifs. With Haaland being new to the team as well. Assuming he doesn't need any settling in, which he might, thats still at least 2 players that will need to plenty of time. And one that needs more time.
 
WallyA said:
I'm only a little confused as to why he is leaving. I thought it was simply to go back to London or pay increase, which if so then fine, but I am reading reports saying he was unhappy with game time?

He played 3126 minutes last season, of the forwards only Foden (3209) played barely more minutes than him.
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He was always gonna say whatever bollocks he could come up with to engineer his move away for brighter lights and more pay.
 
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