#7 | Raheem Sterling - 2020/21 Performances

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Tugay One Cup said:
No, you specifically said that we would be doing better as a team if we dropped him and that's different.

For what it's worth, my current first choice front three doesn't feature Sterling. I'm not pretending he's been good.



I'm not guaranteeing a fucking thing. It's almost certain at this point that I was hilariously wrong about Pep and god knows how many on here were equally wrong about Stones, Cancelo, Gundogan and so on and so on.

I'm retiring the crystal ball and learning when to shut the fuck up. I'd suggest others try and do the same.

Like I said, he isn't a problem right now. When comments like these are coming off the back of him defying the laws of physics to fuck up a shot against Lyon and we crash out of whatever competition then I fully understand. A blindfolded Bony would have tucked that away with his fucking foreskin whilst signing autographs with one hand and swiping his way through tinder on the other. 100% people are well within their rights to lose their shit at times like that.

Right now, what is there to complain about?

I don't like Mahrez. I hate the way he plays, I hate his woman face, I hate the way that he never acknowledges an attempted pass to him, I hate the way he never, ever apologises for completely wasting possession, I hate his lack of passion and effort, I hate how one dimensional he is. I fucking hate seeing his name on the team sheet.

But that's on me and, aside from the occasional tongue in cheek comment, you won't catch me in his player thread consistently berating him after every single game.

I just don't understand the thought process of complaining relentlessly while things are going this well.
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Whoaaaah, stop right there.


















How do you know Bony is "complete" :)
 
CBD said:
So Sterling has no football brain and can’t finish but somehow miraculously he has notched over 100 goals for City as a wide player. If they were all tap ins(which they aren’t) how did he manage to get in the right position over 100 times with no footballing brain. Stick to the chips.
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He hasn't notched 100 goals as a wide player. He's played plenty of games as a striker. And yes his ball striking ability improved a lot last season to be fair (from a fucking awful base) and true he scored some great goals, but many were tap ins. He has good attributes - speed, strength and reasonable dribbling ability, so he's not exactly shit. But I think he's overrated, and I don't think he's a natural goal scorer by any manner or means. YMMV.
 
domalino said:
Of all the things written about Sterling, this is by far the dumbest and the most provably wrong, and yet it still persists for some reason.

I wonder why that is? I wonder why a player who's reached the very top of the sport on the back of his intelligent movement, his ability to find space, his reading of the game, is deemed by a minority of fans to not to have a "footballing brain"?

How do you rationalise him getting to where he has, when you think he has zero intelligence and zero technique?

Why do you think he's the favourite player of the most mentally demanding coach in world football, who could buy any winger on the planet if he wanted? Because he's a bit faster than defenders?
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Dunno, it's a mystery. When he starts getting chances and we stop thinking "I wonder how he will fuck this one up", maybe all will become clear.
 
eversince 76 said:
Find posts about Sterling too positive tbh.
He is one of a few where the progress has stalled. His technique is debatable and his pace seems to have gone backwards.

Yes he is important for the team. Not so playing like he has been for the last few months. And what seems to be forgotten: when will he score vs United and Liverpool? Big players score in big games.
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Completely agree. It is one of my main concerns over the next mth or so with KDB out.

Great players, like Aguero, influence in the biggest of moments, those moments with Sterling have been few and far between.
 
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