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That Paul Parker piece was all over the place. It's like he'd done a list of everything negative he could say about Sterling and City and had to fit it all in the one article.
 
Armaan said:
Just read this gem from rawk haha these dippers are beyond hilarious.

City need telling that if they offer the 50m before we leave at the weekend they get him.
From there onwards his price increases 3m every week until end of July, at which point all offers will be rejected out of hand and the player stays.
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Id rather we pay someone £3m a week to spam them with shite offers.
 
argyle said:
Paul Parker has spoken. Warning, you'll read this through gritted teeth!!


http://www.eurosport.co.uk/football...-join-arsenal_sto4812141/story.shtml#uk-tw-po
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Parker wasn't all wrong you know.


''Liverpool fans were booing him on the final day of the season in the Stoke defeat, but they’re idiots''
 
Paul Parker: "Liverpool fans ... they're idiots". Well at least he got that bit right, but I doubt if it will endear him to them.
 
This is such a significant transfer both for Liverpool and ourselves.

My opinion is that Liverpool are stalling on this for as long as they can first so they can get all their business done in advance of Sterling leaving and second because they are extremely sensitive to the discourse this transfer signifies. And as such are trying to control the PR around it (in other words control the 'message' to their fans all over the world to produce a hegemony of 'Sterling and his agent are mercenaries rather than ambitious' so that most of their self deceived fan base find a way of rationalising what actually in reality is the following ....

This transfer signifies that Manchester City FC are now a bigger football club and a better proposition for the best young players in Europe. History and culture of course are important - but nostalgic romanticism of the past prevents dealing with the realities of the present and future. Liverpool selling Suarez to Barcelona is one thing. Fans can rationalise that. But losing their best talent produced in years and one of the best young players of his age in European football to another English club is a real statement of where they are as a football club. And for us it represents a significant statement - that we are the club for the best young players to come to in England (who traditionally went to Utd or Arsenal). That is a significant development from the early Mansour days.

Interestingly - the self deception doesn't stop there. Some of their fans have genuinely convinced themselves as part of this coming to terms with reality process that Sterling is now over rated, and not even as good as Jordan Ibe. Phenomenal levels of bad faith.
 
Sergi0 Na5r1 said:
Describes that club perfectly. Though I would add delusional.
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That does seem to have become a medical condition in Liverpool.

Also - note regarding my 'controlling the message' point - they will have leaked this story that Sterling is refusing to go on the pre-season tour. Again it merely serves to reinforce the Sterling being a problematic mercenary to further alienate him from their fans prior to him arriving at City. Perfect PR for Liverpool and a way of softening the latter point regarding what this transfer signifies. Looks like most of their fans have fallen for it.
 
Come on now, after @Kippax.

He used to be a Scouser
but now he is a Manc!
He sick of burning candles
He wants to be a champ
His name is Raheem Sterling
He plays in blue and white!
You can keep your £50 million!
you'll still buy fucking shite!

OOOhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

He used to be a Scouser
but now he is a Manc!
He sick of burning candles
He wants to be a champ
His name is Raheem Sterling
He plays in blue and white!
You can keep your £50 million!
you'll still buy fucking shite!

ALL TOGHETHER NOW :P
 
TCIB said:
Paul Parker says Manchester City is not the right move for Raheem Sterling as he nears an exit from Liverpool.
Raheem Sterling could join Manchester City by the end of the week, according to the latest reports on Tuesday, but I think he is making a big mistake if he does move to Etihad Stadium. City just isn’t the right club for him.

[PAPER ROUND: City to sign £45m Sterling by the end of the week]

If you look at everything, Liverpool and Manchester City, as a young player there is only one club you should want to be playing for, and that’s Liverpool because of what they have achieved and what they are, and if you do go on to succeed there, the status that will give a player.

It’s no different to when I joined Manchester United and they won their first title in 26 years: what difference that makes, compared to winning the title somewhere else. It just doesn’t follow the same note. I think he’s made the wrong decision. When I look at City, I just wonder what they’re all about. They have a manager under pressure and are buying Sterling for all the wrong reasons.

City will reportedly pay £45-£50m for Sterling and that’s well overpriced for someone who hasn’t really done anything with any consistency at all, so again it’s that English player mentality: they must cost a lot of money when they haven’t really done anything that’s worthy of that price. As far as I’m concerned, City are paying well over the odds, and to be honest I don’t see going to Manchester City as a massive step forward.

It doesn’t make any difference that they are in the Champions League - they haven’t been any great shakes at all since they have been in it. And there’s no guarantee he’s going to make that difference anyway because if you look at his form for Liverpool, at the end of the day he is a poor finisher.

We know that despite all the effort he puts in, his end product is quite poor, so he’s still learning. I don’t know if he’s going to have enough time to learn at City because he’s leaving a club with a manager under pressure and joining a club with a manager under even more pressure to succeed, so he’s put himself out of the frying pan and into the fire.

I just don’t see this reported move as a forward step and for me the best club he could have gone to was Arsenal. I just feel he could learn more playing in a side like that, and from a patient manager who was proved himself with younger players, whereas Manuel Pellegrini hasn’t got as much time to waste. The City boss has to hit the ground running next season and the problem is that production-wise there isn’t a lot there.

City are in a difficult position because everyone knows they need to sign English players to fulfil their squad quota and that means they’re having to pay over the odds. I think City are buying him merely because they have to, because he’s English, not that he’s great and will make things happen for them and take them towards winning the Premier League. It’s like they think, “he’s English/British so we have to go and buy him.”

They’ve had problems in this respect in the past. They bought Scott Sinclair but he never played a game hardly, then they bought Jack Rodwell and it was the same sort of story. This is not the best place for a young English player to go to. Without a shadow of a doubt.

I do wonder where Sterling is going to play in that team, because when I’ve seen him he’s not very good at playing in behind as such, and they’ve got David Silva who can do that job. You can’t play him up top because he’s not very good as a centre-forward, where they’ve already got Sergio Aguero and they’ve still got Edin Dzeko at the moment, so where exactly is he going to play?

He could play out wide, but he is easy to mark when he plays on the wing and he hasn’t learnt enough to play in the middle. He’s a bit like Theo Walcott: as much as he wants to play through the middle he’s not the kind of player because he isn’t creative enough and can’t do the unexpected with the ball at his feet to actually play in that kind of position or role. Whether there is more chance of Sterling becoming a centre-forward than Walcott, I don’t think so.

He’s going to have to hit the ground running there just to shut a lot of people up, mainly myself because I do believe he has gone to the wrong club. I don’t know if he had much of a say but he’s gone to the wrong team, maybe with the wrong manager and the wrong ethos for someone like him at this moment in time.

The latest reports say a deal could be in place by the end of the week and that would be best for everyone because it’s not in anyone’s interests to have Sterling appearing in Liverpool’s pre-season fixtures.

Liverpool fans were booing him on the final day of the season in the Stoke defeat, but they’re idiots, because at the end of the day the decision has been made and not everyone knows the truth. Will he get stick? I’m sure he will because some people have that mentality, and because he’ll have to deal with that, so now I think he has to leave the club. The only problem is that City doesn’t feel like the right move at all.
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That honestly reads like it was written by a child

I know what Paul Parker is saying here and imagine many would agree with him if his logic was correct. He presumes City are a club in turmoil and Arsenal are the picture of stability. Because of this he thinks a young player should go to a stable club like Arsenal to better himself and his career.
 
The games against the cunts next season are going to be on another level after this and they were already feisty enough.
 
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