#7 | Raheem Sterling - 2021/22 Performances

[mosssideblue]

Surprised they didn't get him the ball quicker and let him run at the full back time and time again. Had him on toast from the off.

He had plenty of opportunities to do that but decided to slow things down instead.

 

[MCFCFanTX]

Raz did well. Pep sees value in playing him. One thing about selling/upgrading is I'm sure the board takes everything into account and has planned for both short term and long term goals. This isn't FIFA, morale/chemistry/synergy matters.

Raz is very well liked and respected in the dressing room. Since his time here many youngsters, especially have name dropped him as someone who's helped them tremendously. There's value in that and I'm sure the board sees it.

Ultimately, he won't be getting an extension based off his off-the-pitch things but everything is taken into account.

He and Kev are two players who I truly believe will be back to their usual numbers with a true #9. I think both 'suffer' the most (statistically and stylistically) in our current set up.

Also Richard Keys is such an annoying, racist twat.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

So either Pep or yourself are missing something. I know which one I'll go with. The fact we are trying to get him to extend should show that we think he's a valuable part of he team and squad.

I can’t argue with that. All I can do is make an honest assessment.

A Hedge Fund Manager I follow says, “If I go home long a stock, then I’m saying it’s a buy.”

Would YOU BUY Sterling today and give him a £350,000/wk contract? If so, at what price?

 

[mccity]

He caused Brentford a lot of problems with his movement. Having a player as explosively fast and intelligent off the ball as he is can be such a benefit.

 

[blueparrot]

I can’t argue with that. All I can do is make an honest assessment.

A Hedge Fund Manager I follow says, “If I go home long a stock, then I’m saying it’s a buy.”

Would YOU BUY Sterling today and give him a £350,000/wk contract? If so, at what price?

I’m not sure whether we would buy him now or whether we would see better players on the market. I don’t know what offer we have on the table for him or whether he’ll take it. What I do know though is there is an offer and if we didn’t see him being able to make a valuable contribution to the team in the next years there wouldn’t be an offer and we would bring in a replacement and either try and sell him or let him walk away.
My opinion he is playing much better now than he was earlier in the season, I also think when we sign a centre forward he’ll get back to his best and that is better than any replacement I can think of , so yes
I’d give him a new contract.

 

[waspish]

I can’t argue with that. All I can do is make an honest assessment.

A Hedge Fund Manager I follow says, “If I go home long a stock, then I’m saying it’s a buy.”

Would YOU BUY Sterling today and give him a £350,000/wk contract? If so, at what price?

Another club say a Madrid or a Barcelona will look at his stats and they are in that bracket of what he is worth.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Another club say a Madrid or a Barcelona will look at his stats and they are in that bracket of what he is worth.

Not sure I understand exactly what you’re saying?

They usual UNDER pay players for the pleasure of playing gif them…something United used to be able to do!

 

[freshie]

My conclusion is that he doesn’t like Raheem’s skin colour.

 

[England Fan]

Tbh, I don’t see what Pep sees in him. He’s not a Pep player, because he is the most technically inferior player on the team.

His assets are speed and strength, but his weaknesses are technique and speed of thought.

The former are great, but often wasted without the latter.

I agree that he’s great at wriggling into the box, but half the time the ball isn’t under control and no-one, including himself I believe, knows what end product to expect.

On the penalty, he had lost touch control of the ball and it was only his shielding with his right leg, and the defender’s stupidity that created anything out of it. Had the defender stood up, the ball would have just run out of play.

On the keeper’s mistake, I’m not sure anyone was confident he’d put it away. Even Pep had his head in his hands when he put it at a perfect height for the keeper to save.

He seems like a great lad. He plays with a smile on his face and soldiers on, even when it’s not going his way. My problem is that he feels like he reached a peak in his development and simply never matured past the head down and run with the ball under a semblance of control.

His best days at City are getting down the right wing and getting on the end of balls slotted in from the left. When he plays on the left, you get neither. He almost got on the end of a cross from the right, when the keeper got a hand on it and Cancelo followed up with a shot over the top, but (as many others have said) he is a very poor judge of when to pull the trigger, esp when he does play on the left and cuts in on his right.

He has scored a few, I’ll grant him that, but he feels like a roving second striker with no striker to play off when playing centrally, and Mahrez is just better than him on the right wing….and Foden is better than him on the left!

With Palmer, McAtee and Delap already coming through, Alvarez (and Kayky?) looking like striking options, it’s hard to see paying £350,000/week on Sterling when you probably get all FIVE of them for less!

 

[ChicagoBlue]

His ears?
Pep thinks he has good ears??