Raheem Sterling | Joins Chelsea for £50m

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Mixed feeling about this ! He’s been a great asset for us and his figures don’t lie. He must be a nightmare for defenders, with his pace and strength and he never seems to be fatigued or injured.
However on the flip side he can be so frustrating, he doesn’t look comfortable on goal unless it’s instinct and can run into blind alleys etc. I’m probably reading too much into this but he doesn’t seem to have connected with the City fans as much as other players. It’s probably just his demeanour and doesn’t like all the fuss etc..
He’s been a great servant for us and I wish him all the best. It will be a big loss but I’m sure we will quickly move on.
 
Gingers Dad said:
Benefits of staying to the end - see all the late winners and miss the crowds
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I will never ever get the rush to leave. You miss some great football, goals, and don’t show respect to the players. Fuck met they must have important lives these early leavers. I was tempted away at spurs 3 0 down and Barton sent off, but couldn’t be arsed to leave. Won 4 3 and have never contemplated leaving early since. My teenage sons refuse to leave the ground until the last player has left the pitch (argued with stewards after the Villa game cos they told us to leave and there were still 2 players on the pitch). Tbf I prefer the Johnny Come Latelys to the Johnny Leave Earlies
 
Tugay One Cup said:
Well yeah, I wouldn't exactly feel a connection with this fanbase if I was him. Partly because of what you've just pointed out. The shit that gets said on social media and in the stands about him every week is enough to put me off a large portion of you so I can't imagine how it feels for him.

Raheem Sterling is the example of a player who has had the media trying to bring him down ever since he made it big. He's suffered countless instances of racist abuse from inside and outside the stadium by gammon fans of all different clubs, including ours.

I'd start seeing it as nothing more than a job, too and I don't get why people act like a guy who has put up with so much shit for so long and seen his name dragged through the mud so many times owes anyone anything.

You guys can't help but have constant digs at him and make insinuations about his personality but I'll leave you with the words of somebody who actually knows and has worked with him; Kevin De Bruyne. I'd like to think they carry a bit more weight than your ten a penny bitter blue:




I am a brutally honest person. So I will let you in on a little secret. Before I came to Manchester City, I didn’t really know what to make of this Raheem Sterling guy. I had never met him, and from what I’d read about him in the English press, I thought he was going to be a very different character.

I thought.…

Well.…

I didn’t think he’d be a bad guy, really. But the tabloids were always claiming that he was arrogant. So I guess I thought he’d be … what do the English call it?

A bit of a dickhead, maybe?

Raheem and I have this strong connection, because we arrived at City around the same time, and there was a lot of negativity about us in the press. They said I was “the Chelsea reject.” They said Raheem was this flashy guy who left Liverpool for money. They said we were difficult characters.

Of course, when you read this stuff about yourself, you think, Me? I’m not difficult. This is ridiculous. These people don’t even know me! But honestly, when you read about other players, it influences the way you think. You can’t help it.

Then I got to City and I actually met Raheem, and we’d talk a bit after training, and I thought, Wait, this guy seems really cool? What’s the story here?

Truthfully, I don’t have many close friends — inside or outside of football. It takes me a really long time to open up to people. But over time, I got closer to Raheem, because our sons were born around the same time, so they would always play together. I really got to know Raheem, and I recognized what a smart and genuine person he is. He couldn’t be more different from what the tabloids were saying.

This is the real truth: Raheem is one of the nicest, most humble guys I’ve met in football.
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Just because i dont rate him as consistently good as a footballer doesnt really mean i am a rascist to him or disrespectful of his abilities or personality. Plus fans on bluemoon are not the media. This is a forum for opinions as far as i see. If paying fans want a change why not be free to say. As is the right of others who want him to stay.
 
kaz7 said:
Needy much !
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It's not needy at all. @tolmie's hairdoo is just saying that he hopes he comes out with a proper goodbye and thank you. He's been a fantastic player for us on the whole and the club have made him an extremely wealthy man. We haven't sung about anyone else being top of the league, often whilst he was experiencing a lot of criticism in the media - so I think a 'thanks for all of your support' to the fans is more than deserved.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
I suppose the delivery from the right might not be as important, though?

From the right, Haaland will have to let the ball come across his body for his left foot, a much harder skill.

I'd argue Foden and Grealish will have more success where they are delivering from the left and it's running right into his path?

He's a monster, either way, but that run to the front left post is the one to watch for.
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Didnt Kev play as left centre mid at times last season
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
This has been coming.
It's a moment to set aside the criticism and the accolades, the weighing and sifting, just take our hats off and thank him. He's been a major part of everything that's happened since 2015. And a lot has. I don't think I'm alone in having felt a peculiar protectiveness about him, since I don't think I've ever, in half a century of following football, seen a player take such an inexplicable cartload of shit up and down the country from supporters who had no dog in the fight either way.
I'd rather you'd gone abroad, Raheem, but you're your own man. All the best.
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Well said
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
This has been coming.
It's a moment to set aside the criticism and the accolades, the weighing and sifting, just take our hats off and thank him. He's been a major part of everything that's happened since 2015. And a lot has. I don't think I'm alone in having felt a peculiar protectiveness about him, since I don't think I've ever, in half a century of following football, seen a player take such an inexplicable cartload of shit up and down the country from supporters who had no dog in the fight either way.
I'd rather you'd gone abroad, Raheem, but you're your own man. All the best.
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Well said mate, Raheem has excited and frustrated me in equal measure as a player , but as a person, I will always have total respect for him, how he’s always tried to conduct himself, and how he called out sections of the media, appalling how he’s been portrayed and treated up and down the country.
 
Still don't like this, feel out leaves us short I'd experienced goalscoring wide players, and pace.

Also think Sterling is making a mistake, if he clicks with Haaland he's looking at being close to ballon d or discussions as he wants, at Chelsea they're rebuilding and much more of a gamble.

But hey ho, we move on. Mist be something more he wants, guarantee of game time, bigger wage, be the star man, no idea but thanks for the memories Raheem and I hope the Chelsea fans don't get on your back too much.
 
Gray said:
On his day world class.

However I still get nightmares about his misses in the home game against the Scum that we lost after being two up at half time. He missed at least three chances in that first half that Aguero would have buried.

Not going to sort that problem out at his age.
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world class at finding space and chances, no doubt for me about that.

conference class for panicking in front of goal and executing a shot
 
Tugay One Cup said:
Nobody said you are or you do. I don't get why you'd feel the need to defend yourself when a comment isn't about you.
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Probably because you conflated press criticism and fan social media criticism and then referred to "you guys" which was presumably aimed at the readers of the post.

Not that you are wrong about the press, but if you think the social media comments from Chelsea fans will be any different to here, then I think you are mistaken. A sad reflection on humanity in the internet age maybe, but here we are.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
This has been coming.
It's a moment to set aside the criticism and the accolades, the weighing and sifting, just take our hats off and thank him. He's been a major part of everything that's happened since 2015. And a lot has. I don't think I'm alone in having felt a peculiar protectiveness about him, since I don't think I've ever, in half a century of following football, seen a player take such an inexplicable cartload of shit up and down the country from supporters who had no dog in the fight either way.
I'd rather you'd gone abroad, Raheem, but you're your own man. All the best.
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Well said. So many small time cunts have booed Raheem for absolutely no reason. Worst offenders for me are Leeds, Villa, Wolves and Burnley.
 
Gingers Dad said:
Well said. So many small time cunts have booed Raheem for absolutely no reason. Worst offenders for me are Leeds, Villa, Wolves and Burnley.
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LongsightM13 said:
And Stoke
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Like!

Unbelievable, wasn't it? I just couldn't fathom it. As for the dipper fans, I think that's when my hatred of them went up several notches. How dare anyone leave Liverpool! That's why it's so important, for me, to treat players leaving, with dignity and respect, in the vast majority of cases. If only to show that we're not like that lot.
 
His stand-out season was 2019/20, when he scored 31 goals for us in all competitions. That's an incredible record.

In total in the previous 2 seasons (2020/21 and 2021/22) he's managed the same number of goals, when he's played nearly twice the number of games. He's never come close to that 2019/20 season but it makes me think whether the loss of Aguero or (more likely) David Silva has affected him, as he and Dave were a lethal combination down that left hand side.
 
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Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
This has been coming.
It's a moment to set aside the criticism and the accolades, the weighing and sifting, just take our hats off and thank him. He's been a major part of everything that's happened since 2015. And a lot has. I don't think I'm alone in having felt a peculiar protectiveness about him, since I don't think I've ever, in half a century of following football, seen a player take such an inexplicable cartload of shit up and down the country from supporters who had no dog in the fight either way.
I'd rather you'd gone abroad, Raheem, but you're your own man. All the best.
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Very good post. Had his faults for all to see but what a tremendous contribution to City over several years. I wish him all the best ar Chelsea
 
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