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Another day, another slap in the face for Liverpool from Raheem Sterling: James Pearce comment

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/another-day-another-slap-face-9611916

But Sterling must learn players don't always get their way
Raheem Sterling has delivered the latest slap in the face toLiverpoolin his increasingly acrimonious battle to secure a move to Manchester City.

Any glimmer of hope that a succession of summer signings at Anfield may have convinced the young winger about the Reds’ ambition for the season ahead has been snuffed out.

Not only has Sterling reiterated to Brendan Rodgers his desperation to quit Liverpool this summer - but he has told him he doesn’t want to travel on the pre-season tour of the Far East and Australia.Link:

However, as Sterling has discovered to his cost throughout this sorry saga, players don’t always get their own way.

Liverpool’s stance remains unchanged and in the absence of an acceptable offer from City, Sterling will be expected to show up for the flight to Bangkok on Sunday.

If he doesn’t attend then he will be in breach of his contract and subjected to disciplinary action. It remains to be seen whether Sterling, who reported for pre-season at Melwood on Monday, is prepared to effectively down tools and go on strike.

After the way in which Sterling and his agent Aidy Ward have conducted themselves over the past six months, nothing can be ruled out.

The 20-year-old England international will hope that his bullish stance will convince City to finally meet Liverpool’s £50million valuation and get the deal done.

The Reds have been braced for an increased bid since City’s improved offer of £35million rising to £40million was rejected three weeks ago but so far it has not been forthcoming.

Manuel Pellegrini’s squad fly to Australia on Thursday to embark on an 11-day training camp on Queensland’s Gold Coast.

Liverpool insist they still don’t want to sell and are prepared to hold Sterling to the final two years of his existing contract, but his departure now looks inevitable.

It has become an unwelcome distraction and with vital pre-season preparations now underway Rodgers could do without the sideshow. He needs players who are committed to the cause.

Where Luis Suarez was worth fighting to keep, whatever the offer from Arsenal two years ago, the same can’t be said for Sterling. His form nosedived in the closing months of last season after he made it clear he wanted a transfer.

The whole saga has been a PR disaster for Sterling since he rejected Liverpool’s offer of a new five-year deal worth £100,000 per week midway through last season and said he didn’t want any further talks until the summer.

One minute his camp were demanding £140,000 per week, the next they were saying it wasn’t about money but a desire to challenge for silverware, His head had been turned.

In April Sterling conducted an ill-advised interview with the BBC without the club’s permission. It was an attempt to halt the torrent of criticism which had come his way during a damaging stand-off over his contract but it backfired spectacularly.
“I don’t want to be perceived as a 20-year-old money-grabber but as the kid that loves to play football,” he said.

His admission that it was “flattering” to be linked with Arsenal certainly wasn’t what Kopites wanted to hear. There were also complaints from Sterling about Rodgers playing him out of position.

In May he upped the ante by telling Rodgers face to face that in the absence of Champions League qualification he wanted out. Laughably, Liverpool stood accused by his agent of “not doing enough to protect the player from negative headlines”.

Rodgers, who has carefully nurtured Sterling’s talent over the past three years and even granted him a mid-season break in Jamaica last December, responded by publicly declaring that he was “going nowhere this summer”.

Ward’s response was to launch an extraordinary attack on Liverpool in which he said he didn’t care about the club’s image and that Sterling wouldn’t even a sign a new deal if he was offered £900,000 per week. The result of Ward’s rant was more negativity heading in the youngster’s direction as he was booed at Liverpool’s end of season awards.

With Ward having made it clear he had no interest in holding talks about a new contract, Liverpool shelved a proposed meeting with Rodgers and chief executive Ian Ayre.

Twice, City have tabled bids which were quickly rejected.

Sterling isn’t the only one hoping that City soon come back in with an acceptable offer which brings this unseemly tale to a swift conclusion.
 
If we offer 50 million with the relationship so badly and publicly broken there, it will be madness. Offer 40m up front, no add ons, take it or leave it. Good luck to them if they want to turn it down. They won't get that amount elsewhere and I can't see him being much use to them after the way they have hung him out to dry.
 
All this talk about "what if he does the same to us in a few years time" doesnt ring true to me.

I firmly believe that if he came to us, and subsequently wanted a move we would do our best to find a solution.

He's kicking up a fuss now, because if he doesnt he'll be staying there.

Only thing I would have done different is put in the transfer request and give up the loyalty bonus. I suspect if he did that Liverpool would have rejected it anyway.
 
I think Sterling is well within his rights to refuse to go on tour. The way Liverpool have whipped their fans into a frenzy(similar to Everton over Lescott) it would be no surprise if Sterling doesn't feel safe being near Liverpool's frenzied cultists.
It's certainly the angle I would use. Another thing, if any employer acted this way in the real world, leaking confidential talks and contract offers and using the media and former players to vilify a member of staff in public, they would be well within their rights to sue for constructive dismissal.
This isn't the real world though, it's football and more or less anything goes. Certain clubs will always behave and operate in a shoddy and unprofessional manner, and Liverpool have proved time and again exactly what sort of two bob, unprincipled shysters they are.
 
moomba said:
All this talk about "what if he does the same to us in a few years time" doesnt ring true to me.

I firmly believe that if he came to us, and subsequently wanted a move we would do our best to find a solution.

He's kicking up a fuss now, because if he doesnt he'll be staying there.

Only thing I would have done different is put in the transfer request and give up the loyalty bonus. I suspect if he did that Liverpool would have rejected it anyway.
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100% true.
 
Armaan said:
100% true.
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Plus apart from Tevez has a player ever kicked up a fuss to leave us post takeover? We have the best facilities, offer great wages and the best chance to win anything in England. As a club we seem to really look after the players as well. Liverpool are just a stone age club from top to bottom.
 
I know as a club we are extremely professional nowadays and don't air our laundry in public so to speak, but if/when Sterling signs, I hope we make it abundantly clear to everyone, without literally having to spell out, just how shameful Liverpool and their outdated, un-educated PR machine have acted in all of this.
 
Lomas has a lob on said:
I know as a club we are extremely professional nowadays and don't air our laundry in public so to speak, but if/when Sterling signs, I hope we make it abundantly clear to everyone, without literally having to spell out, just how shameful Liverpool and their outdated, un-educated PR machine have acted in all of this.
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Here at city Raheem will learn and play with the best of the best. He will win trophies, play in Europe regularly and contest himself against the best sides in Europe unlike that shite on merseyside ;-)
 
Lomas has a lob on said:
I know as a club we are extremely professional nowadays and don't air our laundry in public so to speak, but if/when Sterling signs, I hope we make it abundantly clear to everyone, without literally having to spell out, just how shameful Liverpool and their outdated, un-educated PR machine have acted in all of this.
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As someone else said, we should sign him up for less than 100k a week (with a big jump in wages after 6 months) and announce that he signed for less than he was offered there.
 
Lomas has a lob on said:
I know as a club we are extremely professional nowadays and don't air our laundry in public so to speak, but if/when Sterling signs, I hope we make it abundantly clear to everyone, without literally having to spell out, just how shameful Liverpool and their outdated, un-educated PR machine have acted in all of this.
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I think I'd like that initially but in our minds eye we don't have to...at the end of the day we're going to get a cracking player from one of our rivals with all their 'istree they are having to sell players that do not want to play for them...rather leave and let the fire die down...making the Scousers look even more stupid in the process.
 
I would love for him to sign and give a press conference saying I'm getting paid 85k a week and any signing on fees have gone to charity
I'm here to win trophies
 
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