Raheem Sterling - Done - See main forum

[thereWasATime]

One thing I wanted to ask, folks compare his 2014/15 season to 2013/14 season(with Suaraz).

2013/14: App: 33, 9 Goals, 7 Assists
2014/15: App: 35, 7 Goals, 8 Assists

The stats shows that he had almost the same effect with and without Suarez. So am I missing something? This guy is not a 1 season wonder, he is bound to improve and will definitely have more assists with our group of players. Any comments would be appreciated!

 

[meeesh]

Imo we need him. He's what we've been crying out for in the last, he's fast, he's got a good end product and he's HG. I don't care whether it's 40m or 50m we need the player regardless, to win the top trophies you need the top players and he will certainly be one of them. Of course he's not worth 50m, but this is the reality and I'm not sure whether he would be anywhere near that amount if he was foreign but if we can take him for 50m and keep him for the next 5 years , then that's 10m per year for one of England's best players. I tend to ignore the fee and think more about the footballing side of things, and what impact it would have on the team, positives and negatives, and evaluate it from there. People say Liverpool are bending us over, but we're taking their best player away from them who also happens to be England's best talent, where do Liverpool go from there? Yes the fee is high, but there is a high amount of logic of signing him, and if it works out, the fee represents outstanding value, if not, it was worth the try. It's not like we're short on money anyway.

I agree with all that apart from the best player they have got,I think Coutinho wins that battle,just,can we bid for him as well please ?

 

[Bluemanc100]

The fact that no one else is bidding for him says it all really. Let him and the dippers stew for a few weeks. They'll take it then. Taking the fucking piss they are!

Who said nobody is in for him? Another team could step in and benefit from the legwork we have done in negotiation

I think we'll offer the full £40 in a lump and that will be accepted, the Dippers are just posturing and sending a message to the faithful that they drove a hard bargain....

 

[Paulmcfc2703]

I hope we just offer them that now. No pissing around leaving it a week before we bid again, get it agreed tomorrow

 

[dom]

Who said nobody is in for him? Another team could step in and benefit from the legwork we have done in negotiation

I think we'll offer the full £40 in a lump and that will be accepted, the Dippers are just posturing and sending a message to the faithful that they drove a hard bargain....

This

 

[ToorakBlue]

Allegedly we didn't sign Isco or Hazard because we refused to pay the asking price as we thought they were both well over priced?
So now that criteria does not apply for Sterling?

Both Isco and Hazard are far more proven and far better players than Raheem is.
It appears we will be paying a very serious premium due to the fact he is English.

 

[oakiecokie]

Allegedly we didn't sign Isco or Hazard because we refused to pay the asking price as we thought they were both well over priced?
So now that criteria does not apply for Sterling?

Both Isco and Hazard are far more proven and far better players than Raheem is.
It appears we will be paying a very serious premium due to the fact he is English.

They wern`t signed because we refused to be dragged over the coals by fucking greedy bastard agents otherwise known as "dads".

 

[waspish]

Allegedly we didn't sign Isco or Hazard because we refused to pay the asking price as we thought they were both well over priced?
So now that criteria does not apply for Sterling?

Both Isco and Hazard are far more proven and far better players than Raheem is.
It appears we will be paying a very serious premium due to the fact he is English.

Or due to FFP we didn't want to pay 6m extra to Hazards agent or 10m to Isco's dad?

 

[bluwes]

Allegedly we didn't sign Isco or Hazard because we refused to pay the asking price as we thought they were both well over priced?
So now that criteria does not apply for Sterling?

Both Isco and Hazard are far more proven and far better players than Raheem is.
It appears we will be paying a very serious premium due to the fact he is English.

They both had greedy dads, altough I would now think it worthwile to slip Iscos dad a few mars bars

 

[Taylor]

It's about time Sterling hands in a request. If he wants to leave that bad then it's his only option.