#7 | Raheem Sterling - 2020/21 Performances

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joenorth said:
Its amazing sterling sterling has found his form by putting on a different shirt all of a sudden.
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TBF, playing with a CF will help. He was always most effective at scoring with Aguero moving the defenders around.

And he's not being dumped in with the B team. That Sterling - Jesus -Torres front three was appalling. Didn't work for any of them, until Torres moved to the centre - and that was for one game against bang average opponents.
 
hilts said:
Toe poke and 2 yard header and he is quality again, phew thank god for that.

Excellent movement for both goals but we knew that already, anyhow I’m glad he now has developed his ball control skills as those goals have shown.
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So "player plays to his strengths to score two winning goals in three international tournament matches," essentially
 
FantasyIreland said:
No he hasn't.That will be John Stones.

Sterling did brilliantly to get on the end of two great plays,and while his speed and movement has been excellent,his hold up play,along with his technique and passing,has been it's usual disappointing standard.
Overall,he is having an ok tournament,sitting firmly in the average mix,along with with half a dozen others.
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Agree regarding Stones he has been superb and much overlooked , he has even made Mings look a decent centreback , but the return of slabhead will mean Stones will again go under the radar.
 
moomba said:
Never really understood why some blues almost seem insulted when Sterling plays well.
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Because they are that pissed off with he amount of utter shite performances which he has put in for us . If he stays then I’m willing to give him a clean slate next season but please god let’s just hold off on a contract for the time being .
 
Paul1970 said:
If he stays then I’m willing to give him a clean slate
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Tugay One Cup said:
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And on the flip side it doesn’t matter how many below par performances he delivers many never ever ever say a bad word about him: there’s no in between really. What happens when he plays shit is you hear “he got in good positions”
“He was dangerous” all shite terms which are code for he delivered fuck all. He’s nowhere near the starting eleven for me next season, he needs to earn that back.
 
Bluesince88 said:
And on the flip side it doesn’t matter how many below par performances he delivers many never ever ever say a bad word about him: there’s no in between really. What happens when he plays shit is you hear “he got in good positions”
“He was dangerous” all shite terms which are code for he delivered fuck all. He’s nowhere near the starting eleven for me next season, he needs to earn that back.
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Some people are hesitant to add to the daily pile on.

Most of us who still appreciate Sterling as a player have said plenty of times that he's been utter shite for us for months but we just don't feel the need to tell everyone every single waking minute of the day and we don't have the inclination to force narratives and twist soundbites from interviews in order to slag him off at every turn.

To put it bluntly, it's pathetic and if you were to give me a choice between being a blinkered blue who can't see the obvious faults in a player or being a monotonous obsessive who simply can't wait to have a dig at one of our own after any performance or public appearance then I'll happily take the former.

And, although that GIF was intended to be light hearted, I'm really not interested in the pseudo-centrism of certain people who claim "I'll give him a clean slate" when really all they mean is that they'll begrudgingly give him the slightest reprieve until he dares to have another poor performance.

Take his England performances, for instance. When he plays well for England, these people apparently don't care how he plays for the national team because they are, first and foremost, City fans. But when he doesn't play well for England then he's their favourite topic of conversation.

And then there's just that small group who like to bait others for attention by doing things like sarcastically calling each other racists but we won't get into those sad-acts.
 
Tugay One Cup said:
Some people are hesitant to add to the daily pile on.

Most of us who still appreciate Sterling as a player have said plenty of times that he's been utter shite for us for months but we just don't feel the need to tell everyone every single waking minute of the day and we don't have the inclination to force narratives and twist soundbites from interviews in order to slag him off at every turn.

To put it bluntly, it's pathetic and if you were to give me a choice between being a blinkered blue who can't see the obvious faults in a player or being a monotonous obsessive who simply can't wait to have a dig at one of our own after any performance or public appearance then I'll happily take the former.

And, although that GIF was intended to be light hearted, I'm really not interested in the pseudo-centrism of certain people who claim "I'll give him a clean slate" when really all they mean is that they'll begrudgingly give him the slightest reprieve until he dares to have another poor performance.

Take his England performances, for instance. When he plays well for England, these people apparently don't care how he plays for the national team because they are, first and foremost, City fans. But when he doesn't play well for England then he's their favourite topic of conversation.

And then there's just that small group who like to bait others for attention by doing things like sarcastically calling each other racists but we won't get into those sad-acts.
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There has been baiting from both sides of the fence imo.

Whilst in the main, the thread is bumped to criticise after a performance which may or may not warrant it, it has also been bumped regularly with baited connotations from pro Sterling posters to simply get a bite from those who criticise him

I suspect this will be the tone of his performance thread for a long time
 
Tugay One Cup said:
Some people are hesitant to add to the daily pile on.

Most of us who still appreciate Sterling as a player have said plenty of times that he's been utter shite for us for months but we just don't feel the need to tell everyone every single waking minute of the day and we don't have the inclination to force narratives and twist soundbites from interviews in order to slag him off at every turn.

To put it bluntly, it's pathetic and if you were to give me a choice between being a blinkered blue who can't see the obvious faults in a player or being a monotonous obsessive who simply can't wait to have a dig at one of our own after any performance or public appearance then I'll happily take the former.

And, although that GIF was intended to be light hearted, I'm really not interested in the pseudo-centrism of certain people who claim "I'll give him a clean slate" when really all they mean is that they'll begrudgingly give him the slightest reprieve until he dares to have another poor performance.

Take his England performances, for instance. When he plays well for England, these people apparently don't care how he plays for the national team because they are, first and foremost, City fans. But when he doesn't play well for England then he's their favourite topic of conversation.

And then there's just that small group who like to bait others for attention by doing things like sarcastically calling each other racists but we won't get into those sad-acts.
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Great post amusingly followed by replies from the 2 biggest obsessives on the thread.
 
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