Lucky13
Well-Known Member
If this transfer goes through the main thing the media detractors need to understand is that its the Dipper's who set the price we were forced to pay not us.
He's 20, and was a first team player at the 2013/14 Premier League champions (or so the media would have us believe), he was England's best player at the world cup and ticks all the boxes for the type of player we need.
We had a choice; pay what the Dippers wanted or move on, so we've paid up. I honestly believe that history will show who eventually got the better deal. At the end of this transfer window, I think the important point that will concentrate everyone's minds is that Manchester City Football Club have paid a world record fee for a 21 year old who was Liverpool's best player and most saleable asset and who still had his whole career in front of him and has huge scope to improve further.
Sterling's transfer represents a paradigm shift in the powerbase of English football and proves once and for all that Liverpool are no longer a member of the big 4 and can just about claim to be members of the big 7. Nothing illustrated this more than Liverpool's great and good of yesteryear being exhumed on live TV to decry Sterling and his agent for turning their backs on this once great football institution to better themselves.
The £49m we've just been forced to pay for Liverpool's best player has further reaching consequences than the money we've had to shell out. In the summer of 2008, could we have ever imagined a time that Liverpool and Arsenal players in their peak would seek to leave those clubs for Manchester City to better themselves and further their careers? That is the real story behind this transfer.....
Nail on head with this post , The only thing I'd add is Sterling played his best football with Suarez , he'll play even better with Kun and Silva.