#7 | Raheem Sterling - 2020/21 Performances

[OrigamiNinja]

The usual replies from the same few posters aside, another example of why Raz isn’t half as bad as the haters make out, and why it’s clear those haters love to micro analyse tiny elements of his game.

Mad to think he’ll be one of the greatest Blues ever to have worn the shirt, one of the most successful in our most successful era, and yet there’ll be people who will have spent that whole time damning him with faint praise.

Do you think he has been the best player in the league in Feb?

 

[Rolee]

Absolute nonsense.

Some City fans think he is doing ok/well, some think otherwise. No sane City fan thinks he was the POTM at City, never mind in the whole league.

At City alone, the following have had a better month:

Ederson
Cancelo
Stones
Dias
Zinchenko
Rodri
Gundogan
Bernardo
Mahrez
Jesus
Foden

Are people actually earning GBP coming up with this garbage?

I don't agree with him being POTM but it does stack up with what I've watched, in that he's been good lately.

 

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

Do you think he has been the best player in the league in Feb?

Who's saying he is?

Absolute nonsense.

Some City fans think he is doing ok/well, some think otherwise. No sane City fan thinks he was the POTM at City, never mind in the whole league.

At City alone, the following have had a better month:

Ederson
Cancelo
Stones
Dias
Zinchenko
Rodri
Gundogan
Bernardo
Mahrez
Jesus
Foden

Are people actually earning GBP coming up with this garbage?

It's a stats site - no more no less.

Sterling had the best rating in February because his stats, based on the criteria/algorithm they've applied consistently for many years covering the big leagues, were the best.

So he was effectively the player with the best stats for the month of Feb. That doesn't make him the best player for City or the league which clearly he wasn't.

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

Meanwhile, WhoGoverned named Stalin as the most empathetic leader in history.

Kev made it into the whoscored team of the week on the back of his performance against West ham:



Funny

 

[OrigamiNinja]

Who's saying he is?




It's a stats site - no more no less.

Sterling had the best rating in February because his stats, based on the criteria/algorithm they've applied consistently for many years covering the big leagues, were the best.

So he was effectively the player with the best stats for the month of Feb. That doesn't make him the best player for City or the league which clearly he wasn't.

Well WhoScored are saying it, and it has been posted in here for one of two reasons:

1. They are mocking Sterling.
2. They are suggesting nobody should have any issues with Sterling, because it has been proven by an independent website that Sterling was the best player in the league.

I know which of the above my money is on.

I know exactly how WhoScored have reached that conclusion and they need a new algorithm.

I agree with Rolee. Up until the last game, we had seen signs of improvement in Sterlings game over recent weeks, but he wasn't the best player in the Prem. No agenda and no links to websites with dodgy algorithms required.

 

[domalino]

Does anyone else think he might play a bit better if he played less?

34 games already this season, played more minutes than anyone (inc Ederson) last season, he's playing basically 50+ games a season.

So I think if you're expecting him to play at his best now, you're going to be disappointed, he's probably just grinding through at 75% trying to arrive at the big games in April/May in good condition.

 

[OrigamiNinja]

Does anyone else think he might play a bit better if he played less?

Who knows? Most said he needed to be played through his bad form. For the most part it hasn't worked. I have been critical of Sterling, but do we really have a bona fide replacement for him? Watching us against West Ham and we looked toothless out wide. Sterling frustrates the life out of me but to his credit, he is always dangerous and likely to do something.

There's little point in people like me, moaning about what Sterling does or doesn't do, only for him to be replaced with someone who offers next to nothing. I don't think we would be better off by Sterling spending more time on the bench and Mahrez, Torres et al playing more.

 

[domalino]

Who knows? Most said he needed to be played through his bad form. For the most part it hasn't worked. I have been critical of Sterling, but do we really have a bona fide replacement for him? Watching us against West Ham and we looked toothless out wide. Sterling frustrates the life out of me but to his credit, he is always dangerous and likely to do something.

There's little point in people like me, moaning about what Sterling does or doesn't do, only for him to be replaced with someone who offers next to nothing. I don't think we would be better off by Sterling spending more time on the bench and Mahrez, Torres et al playing more.

I agree that he has to play - and that's probably why he does play every game or near enough, at the expense of his individual performance level.

Maybe with Aguero back, Jesus can play on the RW a bit and give Sterling a rest.

I think you're being more than harsh on Torres by saying he offers next to nothing, lets not get reactionary over 1 game. Before that I think his last 3 starts were a goal vs. Chelt, an assist vs. Sheffield United, and a goal vs. Newcastle.

 

[OrigamiNinja]

I agree that he has to play - and that's probably why he does play every game or near enough, at the expense of his individual performance level.

Maybe with Aguero back, Jesus can play on the RW a bit and give Sterling a rest.

I think you're being more than harsh on Torres by saying he offers next to nothing, lets not get reactionary over 1 game. Before that I think his last 3 starts were a goal vs. Chelt, an assist vs. Sheffield United, and a goal vs. Newcastle.

I wasn't implying anything re Torres, other than we shouldn't expect him to all of a sudden play instead of Sterling and produce the goods. Torres is a young kid, very early in his development and is doing just fine. I only put his name in there to emphasise the fact that we/I can moan about Sterling but actually, I don't believe that we currently have someone to consistently replace him with...

I don't trust Mahrez.

I love Jesus but playing him wide potentially introduces other issues up front, unless as you say, Aguero can get fit and stay fit.

Torres as above.

Foden is fantastic but him playing wide left, still gives us an issue wide right, which I would prefer Sterling to solve over Mahrez, and that doesn't address the issue of him playing too many games.

 

[sir baconface]

Well WhoScored are saying it, and it has been posted in here for one of two reasons:

1. They are mocking Sterling.
2. They are suggesting nobody should have any issues with Sterling, because it has been proven by an independent website that Sterling was the best player in the league.

I know which of the above my money is on.

I know exactly how WhoScored have reached that conclusion and they need a new algorithm.

I agree with Rolee. Up until the last game, we had seen signs of improvement in Sterlings game over recent weeks, but he wasn't the best player in the Prem. No agenda and no links to websites with dodgy algorithms required.

As well as a new algorithm, WhoScored could do with changing drugs.