Honest answer. You are using a single metric by which you measure a player, whereas I use what my eyes see, and I see a player with his weaknesses exposed to the full by the way we have to set up most of the time, so saying x or y goals I don't see as a useful metric if used in isolation.Your problem is you judge a player on one aspect of his game and are unable to see what he brings to the team as a whole.
Can I ask you the same question , what would he have had to score the past season or two and assist for you to have changed your mind on keeping Sterling? Honest question.
That's a fair point, I think we may regret selling both Jesus and Sterling that's all. But I sincerely hope I'm wrong.
Honest answer. You are using a single metric by which you measure a player, whereas I use what my eyes see, and I see a player with his weaknesses exposed to the full by the way we have to set up most of the time, so saying x or y goals I don't see as a useful metric if used in isolation.
Irrelevant now as he's going and, I for one think we will be better for it, time will tell.
I like Sterling and Grealish and think neither have anything to prove. Not sure if that’s allowed ;-)
Ask a serious question and I will answer.So just to be clear, If Sterling had scored 50 goals last season with 100 assists, ou would still think he is a shit player that needs rid of based on what your eyes see beyond that?
I can't make sense of it, for a manager that pays wing backs and are short of centre backs and a centre forward, it doeasn't seem to make sense to prioritise Sterling.Was speaking to a neighbour who is Chelsea fan, moved here a few years ago
he doesn’t get why they are signing him especially with Lukaku gone as then Raheem would have had a target man in the middle if Lukaku had stayed
Similar to a lot of fans saying he would have been better now we have Haaland in the middle for him
Ask a serious question and I will answer.
I can't make sense of it, for a manager that pays wing backs and are short of centre backs and a centre forward, it doeasn't seem to make sense to prioritise Sterling.
If Sterling's brain worked as fast as his feet he'd have won the balloon d'oor by now.Sterling has scored some very important late goals for us.
He has also scored below the xG in every season bar one. Simply put, he scores less than an average player when presented with the same chances.
He is an average short passer of the ball, has average creative vision, average crossing and dribbling, poor decision making but he’s very fast.
Since we don’t score many on the break due to the way teams set up against us, I don’t think his pace will be as missed as it otherwise would.
Ultimately he was already overpaid in comparison to his peers and he wanted more money and more game time when he isn’t good enough to justify either.
I’m glad he’s gone and glad we’ve got our money back. I don’t think he’ll be missed. Foden and Grealish are both better on the left. Mahrez is better on the right and I expect Palmer and Alvarez will be too.
He has also scored below the xG in every season bar one. Simply put, he scores less than an average player when presented with the same chances.
If Sterling's brain worked as fast as his feet he'd have won the balloon d'oor by now.
He certainly won the balloon with one of his numerous penalty misses and free kick attempts !If Sterling's brain worked as fast as his feet he'd have won the balloon d'oor by now.
In which case Ederson needs bollocking for shit goals and assists last season.He instructs everyone to play the same way. - With courage!
Nearly what Pep was talking about a few years ago when he said if his finishing could improve.If Sterling's brain worked as fast as his feet he'd have won the balloon d'oor by now.
No his speed and the way we play has, you only have to look at the Liverpool game were he ran at VVD, what he needed to do was knock it pass him and beat him in a race, yet what he did was run into him and VVD just stood there, Sterling was clueless he just ran into him and stood still!Sterling's intelligence is pricelessly what has got him to this stage in his career but carry on.
No his speed and the way we play has