#7 | Raheem Sterling - 2020/21 Performances

[BillyShears]

It's not really a tough decision though.

You have a 26 year old who's been absolutely integral the the performance of the team and scored and assisted more goals than anyone else in the squad over the length of his current contract. Yeah he's had a below par season but there's obvious reasons why. You re-sign him.

it's that simple. I don't believe for 1 second the club is even debating whether he gets a new contract or not, and from what @BillyShears and IIRC @tolmie's hairdoo have said, they aren't.

The club are negotiating with him because they want his future sorted before he leaves for the euros.

Those who want to sell him should start a game of Football Manager and go nuts haha.

 

[TonyM]

Football doesn't work like that. If Sterling doesn't want to go then he doesn't go.
This idea we can just sell him to raise funds for another player is fanciful and not grounded in any reality.

You are right but I'm hoping that someone would pay money for him, offer him decent wages and a chance to start a new "project" so he'd be happy to go. Probably would be a competitor so if he regained his form it could bite us but all changes involve risk.

 

[SWP's back]

You re-sign him.

Depends on what money.

 

[BillyShears]

Depends on what money.

Seems pretty obvious that of all contract renewals tbf.

Notwithstanding that I reckon Raz will get marginally better terms than he’s currently on because of the volume of goals he’s scored since signing his last deal.

 

[The blue phantom]

I know this doesn't satisfy the forum's need to draw permanent conclusions and thirst for telling our own players to fuck off and be sold, but maybe he's just fucking tired and needs a rest? And maybe we should just let him get that rest without devoting hundreds of posts to gossiping like teenage girls about how he's lost Pep's trust because he didn't come on in a game we'd already won.

He has been the only omnipresent player in this side other than Ederson. KDB has had almost 2 season out injured. Bernardo spent 18 months on the bench after he burnt out in 18/19, Mahrez has only started 50% of games since he arrived, Foden hasn't played until this season so no wonder he's the freshest and Gundogan spent 4 seasons behind David Silva.

Sterling did an absolutely monumental job for the team last year, taking up all of the slack from Sané leaving and Aguero getting injured.

The guy deserves a season out of form more than anyone, and he certainly deserves it without a horde of supporters trying to undermine or erase all the good he did in the past 4 years and demand he gets sold. Not to mention the racist abuse from his own fans both online and in person which he has got, despite some posters' attempts to pretend it didn't happen or wasn't from City fans.

All competitions + Internationals

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Just for City -

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And by the way, those stats include this season when he's been in poor form and in and out of the team. At the beginning of the season, he'd played 50 games worth of football more than Bernardo since 2017/18. 25 more games than KDB, and 70 games more than Gundogan. And we've actually got 430 pages of people asking why he's out of form.

But, but, they keep saying he was absolutely fuckin dreadful last year :)

 

[FantasyIreland]

He should start as RW against Spurs.

its an opportunity for him to regain his 2018 form.

That's daft talk.

You don't start a player that is struggling in such an important match on the off chance he might find the form that has deserted him for so long.

 

[FantasyIreland]

You can go back and look but when he was racially abused after a game a couple of weeks ago there were a lot of comments suggesting they weren't City fans despite all the evidence to the contrary.

I'll take your word for it,but the Blue tints must be strong if that was the case.
Still,not as bad as some fans insinuating others on this forum were racist despite having zero evidence.

 

[kaz7]

Same tired posters whether he plays or not , sad

 

[OrigamiNinja]

Same tired posters whether he plays or not , sad

TBF Kaz that works both ways.

Maybe some of the criticism goes overboard, but his supporters are just as staunch in their opposite view, even if they have to go back to his form 12/18 months ago to get that point of view across.

 

[kaz7]

TBF Kaz that works both ways.

Maybe some of the criticism goes overboard, but his supporters are just as staunch in their opposite view, even if they have to go back to his form 12/18 months ago to get that point of view across.

Nobody thinks he is playing well, it has been this season and not two seasons , get that right and there might be more to talk about , thirty goals and all the assists count for nothing in here

This season and i agree , maybe he is burnt out , has personal problems , who knows , he gets zero leeway from those who never wated him or begrudge his salary