Raheem Sterling interview on Sky

[meeesh]

Avg 1.1 - so that's more tackles than Aguero, De Bruyne, Gundogan and even the same as Stones.

I assume you'll be accusing them of never putting a tackle in in their respective player threads too?

It obviously touched a nerve for you to spring to his defence like you have in this manner,so I won't proceed to upset you any further

 

[domalino]

It obviously touched a nerve for you to spring to his defence like you have in this manner,so I won't proceed to upset you any further

I'll admit I do find baseless and unfounded criticism of Sterling annoying.

 

[HelloCity]

Likeable chap. As for the tackling, pulls out of every 50/50. Mind you he has comrades. Needs to up his goalscoring rate bigtime, again he has comrades. 4 of our regular front 5 need to sweeten themselves in this regard.

His scoring record is pretty underrated, especially for a 20 year old wide player.

11 goals last season was more than Milner, Nasri, Johnson, Navas have ever scored from the same position. Silva has only beat that figure once with 12.

He could potentially be some player

As others have said, he won the ball back more than any other player in the entire league over the last two seasons.

Not bad for a kid.

 

[HelloCity]

It obviously touched a nerve for you to spring to his defence like you have in this manner,so I won't proceed to upset you any further

Some of us just don't like unfounded and brainwashed critisism of a young player.

Now, please go to the De Bruyne thread to criticise his tackling. I believe he's behind Sterling on goals as well...

 

[Tom_mcfc]

Hope he gets back to his early season form where he was a joy to watch, I think the team as a whole not being as fluent has hindered him but very hard to criticise on this seasons performances.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Give it up mate.
I saw him getting abused like hell for being a lazy, selfish, greedy bastard after an England Euro 16 game when in the first 30 minutes he twice tracked back and won the ball back close to the England penalty box, while playing as a forward
Once all the over on the opposite flank, diagonally across the pitch from where he was positioned.

He will never ever get the credit he deserves.

Well not from some of our supporters anyway !

 

[dronefromsector7G]

he does seem very likeable and is certain to become more mature on & off the pitch.





it's just that when he runs he reminds me of velma.

Thank you! That's an itch I couldn't quite locate and scratch.

 

[City Raider]

His scoring record is pretty underrated, especially for a 20 year old wide player.

11 goals last season was more than Milner, Nasri, Johnson, Navas have ever scored from the same position. Silva has only beat that figure once with 12.

He could potentially be some player

As others have said, he won the ball back more than any other player in the entire league over the last two seasons.

Not bad for a kid.

He'll only become a great if his mindset becomes 'how can I score from here' as opposed to 'how can I set someone up from here'.

Nothing wrong with the latter but great scorers are selfish and not afraid to miss.

 

[domalino]

His scoring record is pretty underrated, especially for a 20 year old wide player.

11 goals last season was more than Milner, Nasri, Johnson, Navas have ever scored from the same position. Silva has only beat that figure once with 12.

He could potentially be some player

As others have said, he won the ball back more than any other player in the entire league over the last two seasons.

Not bad for a kid.

1 goal in 3 would make him a good winger (12-13 league goals per season) but with his talent he should be scoring more, and if he's going to keep his place in the team when players like Sané and Jesus get going then he's going to need to not go 11 games without a goal like he has currently.

If you look back at the best wingers in the world, they all had a breakout goalscoring season at ~22 (Sterling's 22nd birthday is next week). Ronaldo went from 9 league goals to 17, Sanchez went from 6 in 36 to 12 (but in only 30 games), Ribery went from 1 to 12, Marco Reus went from ~10 to 20 goals a season. Pedro had his breakout season at 22 as well. Even Messi's numbers jumped up significantly at that age, from 30 a season to nearly 50.

It's a really common pattern and with a very good coach now to get the best out of him, constant gametime, a style of play which invites the wingers to get goals and settled in the club 18 months after his move, we should be seeing it from Sterling too.

15 league goals and 20 in all comps would be a good return for him. He started well this season but it's completely fizzled out. Hopefully tomorrow is the day that changes.

I do still completely believe he'll make that jump, I just want to see some movement in that direction because as I said, the other 2 youngsters will get going and he'll be left behind if he doesn't.

 

[HelloCity]

1 goal in 3 would make him a good winger (12-13 league goals per season) but with his talent he should be scoring more, and if he's going to keep his place in the team when players like Sané and Jesus get going then he's going to need to not go 11 games without a goal like he has currently.

If you look back at the best wingers in the world, they all had a breakout goalscoring season at ~22 (Sterling's 22nd birthday is next week). Ronaldo went from 9 league goals to 17, Sanchez went from 6 in 36 to 12 (but in only 30 games), Ribery went from 1 to 12, Marco Reus went from ~10 to 20 goals a season. Pedro had his breakout season at 22 as well. Even Messi's numbers jumped up significantly at that age, from 30 a season to nearly 50.

It's a really common pattern and with a very good coach now to get the best out of him, constant gametime, a style of play which invites the wingers to get goals and settled in the club 18 months after his move, we should be seeing it from Sterling too.

15 league goals and 20 in all comps would be a good return for him. He started well this season but it's completely fizzled out. Hopefully tomorrow is the day that changes.

I do still completely believe he'll make that jump, I just want to see some movement in that direction because as I said, the other 2 youngsters will get going and he'll be left behind if he doesn't.

It's like you're holding him to standard that even other top players we have don't reach though.

He 'should' be is exactly the attitude that leads to people getting on his case.

You're just setting him up to fail. Talking about him being left behind if he doesn't improve when the people you talk about havent proved anything at all for Manchester City.

There's a dark resentment and tone to your post. The way someone talks about someone they don't really like.

 

[Centurions]

It's like you're holding him to standard that even other top players we have don't reach though.

He 'should' be is exactly the attitude that leads to people getting on his case.

You're just setting him up to fail. Talking about him being left behind if he doesn't improve when the people you talk about havent proved anything at all for Manchester City.

There's a dark resentment and tone to your post. The way someone talks about someone they don't really like.

Although I agree to a certain point with your first 3 sentences I can't for the life of me see where you come up with the fourth statement.

 

[domalino]

It's like you're holding him to standard that even other top players we have don't reach though.

He 'should' be is exactly the attitude that leads to people getting on his case.

You're just setting him up to fail. Talking about him being left behind if he doesn't improve when the people you talk about havent proved anything at all for Manchester City.

There's a dark resentment and tone to your post. The way someone talks about someone they don't really like.

That's a truly bizarre thing to infer from my post considering I've previously been defending him to the hilt in this very same thread, not to mention all last season.

I'm comparing him to the best wingers in the world because that's what he has the potential to be, and they all went through significant jumps up in goalscoring near his age. If he ends up being another Theo Walcott scoring 10 league goals a season it will be a fucking tragedy, and pretending otherwise with your "lets hope he scores 12 in all competitions" is absurd.

And if it's not Jesus or Sané who take his place if the goals don't come, it will be someone else, because you cannot have a world class team with 1 goalscorer. Guardiola previously had Henry (26 goals a season), pedro (20 goals a season), Sanchez (20 goals a season), Villa (19 goals a season), Robben (20 goals a season when he was fit) on the wing. Bojan, who could only manage 10-15 goals on the wing was sold off.

It's ridiculous to think that Guardiola, in search of the Champions League and Premier League will be satisfied with Sterling and keep him starting for us if he continues to score once a month, and he knows that himself which is why he acknowledged it in the interview. To say he needs to improve his goalscoring to that level isn't "dark and resenting" it's fucking pragmatic - 10 goals a season will see him out of the starting XI long before Guardiola's 3 seasons are up.

And as I said at the end of my last post, I still think he will make that jump, but it needs to start happening in the next few months.

 

[schfc6]

Just looked into this site,very good for info,stats,and when you click on Sterling it shows the following

Tackles- (Prem) Avg 1.1

Fouls - (Prem) Avg 1.3

If I'm reading this correctly,it means per game,so more or less agrees with what I see with my own eyes,defend him as much as you want,but he needs to improve,as do a few,I'm not singling him out,but I won't be put down with stats thrown at me,if I find other evidence to back up what I say

Sagna 1.2, Fernando 1.4, Stones 1.1, Kolarov 1.5, De Bruyne 0.8 and Gundogan 1.1.
Helps if you offer a little context to your stats.

As Domalino has offered context to his stats.

 

[Aguero_Element]

I really want to see him be more cocky on the ball and beat people, he has the speed for it. He just seems to only want to break out the skills on the counter. Id rather him lose it the ball a few times than play with fear 100 percent of the time