Daniel Sturridge plz stay

[Balti]

A decent enough prospect but sounds as though he needs to get over himself a bit. If he really believes in himself that much then he'll sign the contract and knuckle down. If not then fine and bye bye.

 

[Anonymous]

Ireland has had a half decent season but lets not kid ourselves he is not even in the top 5 prem midfielders and has a looong way to go before being considered europes best.
Just like sturridge has a hell of a long way to go prove that he is in the upper echelon of premiership strikers nevermind being an automatic choice for england. The kid might know where the goal is but he takes daft shots, from stupid angles and doesnt release the ball when he should. Im sorry but for me at the moment the kid is all hype, yep 4 goals and 5 assists is good no doubting that but there has been some shockingly anonymous performances and temper tantrums thrown in with that, like i previously said when his talent and endeavour matches his attitude he will be some player but how many players are as good as they believe they are, i can think of fifty players who were touted as the next big thing who faded away badly he has shown me nothing in his appearances and attitude to suggest he will do any different.

Where Ireland and Sturridge differ is this when given the chance Ireland made himself undroppable when given the chance and he has been given chances sturridge didnt

He is in the top 5 of Premier League midfielders this season and seeing as the Premier League is the best league in europe then currently Stephen Ireland is one of europes best at this moment in time.

 

[mancboy123]

Im sorry take off the blue tinted glasses and he just isnt m8. he has had a good season but

Essien
Lampard
Gerrard
Alonso
Cahill

all better without mentioning the rags. I dont want to put stevie down as he has been excellent but he just isnt one of the best midfielders in europe right now!

 

[mancboy123]

This however depends on how u define best!

 

[Anonymous]

Im sorry take off the blue tinted glasses and he just isnt m8. he has had a good season but

Essien
Lampard
Gerrard
Alonso
Cahill

all better without mentioning the rags. I dont want to put stevie down as he has been excellent but he just isnt one of the best midfielders in europe right now!

Apart from Gerrard and Lampard have the others performed as well as Ireland this season? His stats prove otherwise, he is up there with Gerrard and Lampard and has already at 22 achieved more than Gerrard and Lampard had achieved personally at 22.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

he will look back in two seasons time and think, well i really fucked that up!

we can only hope. as long as we dont look back in two seasons and think we fucked it up

 

[twinkletoes]

Ireland has had a half decent season but lets not kid ourselves he is not even in the top 5 prem midfielders and has a looong way to go before being considered europes best.
Just like sturridge has a hell of a long way to go prove that he is in the upper echelon of premiership strikers nevermind being an automatic choice for england. The kid might know where the goal is but he takes daft shots, from stupid angles and doesnt release the ball when he should. Im sorry but for me at the moment the kid is all hype, yep 4 goals and 5 assists is good no doubting that but there has been some shockingly anonymous performances and temper tantrums thrown in with that, like i previously said when his talent and endeavour matches his attitude he will be some player but how many players are as good as they believe they are, i can think of fifty players who were touted as the next big thing who faded away badly he has shown me nothing in his appearances and attitude to suggest he will do any different.

Where Ireland and Sturridge differ is this when given the chance Ireland made himself undroppable when given the chance and he has been given chances sturridge didnt

He is in the top 5 of Premier League midfielders this season and seeing as the Premier League is the best league in europe then currently Stephen Ireland is one of europes best at this moment in time.

He is still doing exactly what Sturridge is doing so why take a different attitude with Ireland?

 

[Anonymous]

Ireland has had a half decent season but lets not kid ourselves he is not even in the top 5 prem midfielders and has a looong way to go before being considered europes best.
Just like sturridge has a hell of a long way to go prove that he is in the upper echelon of premiership strikers nevermind being an automatic choice for england. The kid might know where the goal is but he takes daft shots, from stupid angles and doesnt release the ball when he should. Im sorry but for me at the moment the kid is all hype, yep 4 goals and 5 assists is good no doubting that but there has been some shockingly anonymous performances and temper tantrums thrown in with that, like i previously said when his talent and endeavour matches his attitude he will be some player but how many players are as good as they believe they are, i can think of fifty players who were touted as the next big thing who faded away badly he has shown me nothing in his appearances and attitude to suggest he will do any different.

Where Ireland and Sturridge differ is this when given the chance Ireland made himself undroppable when given the chance and he has been given chances sturridge didnt

He is in the top 5 of Premier League midfielders this season and seeing as the Premier League is the best league in europe then currently Stephen Ireland is one of europes best at this moment in time.

He is still doing exactly what Sturridge is doing so why take a different attitude with Ireland?

Was that meant for me?

 

[PragueBlue]

Ultimately with everyone fit he would probably be behing Bellamy and Bojinov and maybe even Caicedo. He also knows we are likely to bring in at least one or two strikers during this Summer pushing him well down to 5th or 6th choice. As we only play with one striker (and Sturridge is not best suited to that role) , it's probably in everyone's best interests if he leaves.

 

[ShaunMCFC]

Ireland is better than Cahill...