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[BigOscar]

The reason he's been shit this season is because the players around him aren't on the same wavelength, you've lost that pace in attack in which he thrives on.

Last season he was settled and comfortable with your counter attacking football, a style which suits his play.

He got the best out of Suarez with his assits and vice versa, the same would happen with him working alongside Aguero.

Not to mention he has a manager who is fucking incompetent. Suarez managed to make Bodgers look like he was a half decent manager, but this year he's been brutally exposed as being absolutely clueless.

Never! The man who invented three at the back and tiki/taka with low possession?

Yup, the man who thinks everyone should play at wingback at least 5 times a season, for reasons not altogether clear. Then blame Mario

 

[waspish]

He will literally rot on the bench if he moves to City. His career will nose dive.

£40million though? Sounds tasty

So really your admitting that Liverpool FC is that inferior to Manchester City that one of your top 3 1st team players is going to sit on our bench? Ok..

 

[Paulmcfc2703]

Sterling won't replace Aguero or Bony as the striker.

He won't replace silva

He's not much of an upgrade on Nasri/Navas

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He isn't going to replace Aguero/Bony/Silva though because they play in different positions.

We need a young pacey winger (he's 9 years younger than Navas and already better than him) and we need a homegrown player that is capable of breaking into the first team.

He is a sensible signing and despite £40 million sounding a lot not only is it a long term signing the amount is only going to be around a quarter of what we are reportedly looking to spend this summer so I doubt any City fan will be too fussed giving that sort of money to a team who's targets are Ings, Milner etc

 

[andersmcfcdk]

Sterling won't replace Aguero or Bony as the striker.

He won't replace silva

He's not much of an upgrade on Nasri/Navas

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Sterling is an upgrade on Nasri and Navas imo, especially considering his age. The only thing Navas does in sprinting up and down the side lines, his crosses are mostly terrible so is his finishing. I personally hope Nasri will leave, he's good on his days, but his days are rare. He is also injured a lot, and I also believe he damages the image of the club.

 

[aguero93:20]

Sterling won't replace Aguero or Bony as the striker.

He won't replace silva

He's not much of an upgrade on Nasri/Navas

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He isn't going to replace Aguero/Bony/Silva though because they play in different positions.

We need a young pacey winger (he's 9 years younger than Navas and already better than him) and we need a homegrown player that is capable of breaking into the first team.

He is a sensible signing and despite £40 million sounding a lot not only is it a long term signing the amount is only going to be around a quarter of what we are reportedly looking to spend this summer so I doubt any City fan will be too fussed giving that sort of money to a team who's targets are Ings, Milner etc

I hear they're planning to replicate their successful Southampton themed transfer window this year with some Crystal Palace players. If I was them I'd grab Selhurst Park as well, it's in better nick then Anfield and there's plenty of nice cars up at SW14 for their supporters to vandalise and nick.

 

[Sergi0 Na5r1]

He will literally rot on the bench if he moves to City. His career will nose dive.

£40million though? Sounds tasty

So really your admitting that Liverpool FC is that inferior to Manchester City that one of your top 3 1st team players is going to sit on our bench? Ok..

Good point, they've been saying this a lot lately and ignore what that statement implies.
Then there's the others calling him rubbish who a few months ago couldn't stop saying what a brilliant player he was.

 

[JustAnotherCityFan]

How much game time have Milner and Navas shared between them this season? A hell of a lot and it would be this position Sterling would be operating in. With Milner off and Sterling offering the ability to beat a man that Navas cannot do as well, Sterling will be starting most games for us. Also we wouldn't be smashing our transfer record to buy a bench warmer.

 

[nomorethaksintimes]

I presume this has already been posted but couldn't see it. Brilliant.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/19/its-just-the-way-it-works" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... y-it-works</a>

 

[stony]

I presume this has already been posted but couldn't see it. Brilliant.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/19/its-just-the-way-it-works" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... y-it-works</a>

Brilliant, cheers for that mate.

As we all know, Liverpool Football Club is special. Different. Classy. Unique. Special. Unique. Classy. Unique. Iconic. Unique. Special. Unique. Clubby. Clubbish. Clubesque. Special. Unique. Increasingly irrelevant. Over the hill. Past-it. Yesterday’s news. Special. Unique. Iconic. Unique. Special. Special. Special. Unique. Liverpool Football Club are special. And unique. And special. And classy. They’re special and specially unique and uniquely specially and specially special and uniquely classy and they have a different way of doing things, you wouldn’t understand, you just wouldn’t, because you’re not special, or classy, or unique, you’re not Liverpool Football Club, and you wouldn’t understand, so don’t even bother, just accept it, they’re the best football team in the tra-la-la-la land.

Liverpool Football Club’s specialness and uniqueness and classiness naturally places them in a position to pat lesser clubs on the head and let them know of their place in the food chain. Clubs, say, like Southampton, who were browbeaten into selling Adam Lallana and Dejan Lovren to mighty Liverpool last summer. “They have a choice as a club,” Liverpool’s head guru, Brendan Rodgers, roared last August. “They don’t have to sell. You have a choice. Maybe Southampton’s objectives have changed. They were looking to be a [Big Cup] club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change. There might be one or two others who leave. It’s just the way it works.” It’s. Just. The. Way. It. Works.

Words to live by. Poetry in motion that comes to mind now that Raheem Sterling is busy letting Liverpool know that the way it works is that he would like to leave in the summer, maybe join a bigger club, play for a team who actually have a chance of winning something in the near future, that there’s only so many times he can hear about the Miraculous Miracle of Istanbul before he’s forced to go all Van Gogh on his ears.

Treason! Naturally Sterling’s desire to play for a good team has been met with fury and The Fiver assumes he has spent the day locked in Melwood’s Re-education Chamber, a crack team of Phil Thompson, John Bishop and John Aldridge taking it in turns to hammer home the uniqueness and specialness and classiness of Liverpool Football Club, making sure Sterling knows that he will forever walk alone if he joins Manchester City, a terrifying prospect indeed. It’s just the way it works.

The author is about to be blacklisted by half of Liverpool and most of Scandinavia.

 

[moomba]

I presume this has already been posted but couldn't see it. Brilliant.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/19/its-just-the-way-it-works" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... y-it-works</a>

That first paragraph ... :)