Raheem Sterling - Done - See main forum

[Le Havre Oswald]

He's worth whatever the club think he's worth. Be it 50 million, 100 million or 5 million.

 

[aguero93:20]

I am totally confident that we are playing this cleverly and will get a price we accept

And if the club accept the price....

 

[cibaman]

The problem is, if we did leave it till next year or the year after when he would cost half the amount or walk on a free respectively,there would be a he'll of a lot more clubs with serious interest in him.

We'd have to be sure in that situation that he wouldn't choose a chelsea/arsenal/real/bayern etc over us if we did choose that path. Probably best to just up our bid by £5 or £10 mill now if we want him, if that increase would have little to no implications on other targets of course.

Which it would. The City Premium isnt dead yet.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Jesus Christ of course he's fuckin worth it,have some people not seen the price of English talent and he's the best one out there and only 20.Who In the right fuckin mind thinks he's only worth £25 million !

That's how I see it. His age means that if he fulfills that potential, and I think MCFC are right that he has it in spades, then he could potentially give us five trophy winning years, generate mountains of corporate, sponsorship and bums-on-seats cash, and then be sold for double that. Or give us an entire career.

Look at the new TV deal. Football is megabucks. The tranfser market is not out of control, it is economics at work. If City win the Champions League a time or two, it could add £100m PER YEAR onto our revenue. Whilst Sterling won't win it on his own, the club believe he will be an important cog in the wheel to get us there. That's why players cost and are paid so much.

 

[jayfx]

It might not be our money, and we can bang on about inflation, the price of a Mars bar in the 80's or a fuckin' Fiat Punto but it's also not our club. The seat we pay a lot of money to sit in every home game, isn't actually our seat. But we've been brought up to love the club and consider it our own. So when Liverpool come trying to take the piss out of us, I for one say "fuck em!" My money or not. The club might have bags of money and are in need of home grown talent, however, Sterling doesn't want to be at Liverpool! So we both have good reasons to come to a reasonable deal. We've said 'take it or leave it' now, we should stick to it imo.

 

[eversince 76]

It's really bugging me hearing loads of blues going "he isn't worth X, we should walk away" etc. You have no concept of the money or the difference between £35 and £40m. You're looking at it like a number on Top Trumps, or a stick to potentially be neaten with by rival fans and the media.

If he is the right player for the team, and I think he is, then the money shouldn't worry you as a fan. There's a gamble with every transfer but we need to sit back and trust Soriano, Khaldoon etc to do the sums and the negotiation. The figures in the press are unlikely to be accurate anyway, bearing in mind that one of the carrots City offer selling clubs is cash up front.

Totally agree on this one. I'm pretty sure the ones who scream "walk away" or "don't pay more than whatever" will be the first to moan "if only we had got in Sterling".
If they think Sterling is worth getting in no matter what, they'll sort the transfer out. If not, this will be the end of this transferstory.
Financialwise it's only about how much we paid for players and wages, and how much we got after selling and losing wages.

 

[oakiecokie]

It might not be our money, and we can bang on about inflation, the price of a Mars bar in the 80's or a fuckin' Fiat Punto but it's also not our club. The seat we pay a lot of money to sit in every home game, isn't actually our seat. But we've been brought up to love the club and consider it our own. So when Liverpool come trying to take the piss out of us, I for one say "fuck em!" My money or not. The club might have bags of money and are in need of home grown talent, however, Sterling doesn't want to be at Liverpool! So we both have good reasons to come to a reasonable deal. We've said 'take it or leave it' now, we should stick to it imo.

Can you find me a direct quote from City which says that please !!!

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

That's how I see it. His age means that if he fulfills that potential, and I think MCFC are right that he has it in spades, then he could potentially give us five trophy winning years, generate mountains of corporate, sponsorship and bums-on-seats cash, and then be sold for double that. Or give us an entire career.

Nail on the head DD. The main consideration should be "Does he move us forward as a player?"

Having established that he does then the next should be "How do the finances of this deal stack up?" Say we value him at £30m but Liverpool want £45m, that's £9m a year instead of £60m for amortisation, working out at an extra £3m a year on the bottom line. So we have to decide whether that extra £3m is worth it to us.

If we sell him in 3 years, he should have significant resale value. Let's say we pay £45m now and sell for £50m in 3 years. Amortisation will have been £27m, giving a book value of £18m and a profit on sale of £32m. That's a deal worth doing for the sake of an extra £3m a year.

 

[Cheadle Blue]

Can't see anything happening on this anytime soon.

Liverpool want to show to their followers that the cult is as strong as ever, and they will not be dictated to by other insignificant teams around the world...

IF they get a green light on someone like benteke, or another £25m + player, then they will look to move sterling on, until then nothing will happen imo

 

[mosssideblue]

The rags have paid 30 mil for a fucking fullback, who can't even get in the England team, purely because he's young & English. They paid 60 mil for DiMaria.

So consequently, everything else is now proportionally fucked. None of these people are 'worth it' but we just have to operate within the shite they have created, as has been the case for everyone in this country as the wankers have contimually inflated transfers & wages since even before the Champions League was invented. They bought their first title by paying hugely over the odds for mainly home countries players & have maintained that m.o. to this day.

No point in people arguing about Sterling, or Barkley etc. They have set the price.

Absolutely agree, yet all the rags at work cannot see that. Knobs