Raheem Sterling - Done - See main forum

[TCIB]

Does anyone remember Prince Akeems sister in law in coming to America?

Fucking call of the year !
Gave me a right old chuckle that did, cheers.


Err i mean how dare you sir !

 

[Wio Gumflapdinand]

I don't see it, what the fuss is about. He's quick I'll give him that. 90% of his efforts at goal are ballooned over the bar. If you aren't much good at giving a pass and are a footballer that to me immediately should mean you can never command more than a £20-25 million price tag. People are seriously debating if a winger that can't cross is worth chucking over €35 million on and paying him a kings ransom....Jesus Christ!

 

[flb]

Patrice Mcdowell!

 

[taleofbluehalves]

Let's see what the next SWP does in this match. He'll do fuck all and some people would still want to splash out 50 mil on him :-)

You could say the same at most of our players against Arsenal this season. Stupid comment.

 

[mcfc-mark]

My concern with signing Sterling would be that we'd end up coaching the directness out of his game and he'd become another 'side to side' player. He's a fantastic player with great energy and intent, but that will be of little use if we're rolling the ball out to him from midfield and expecting him to come up with a piece of magic every time against a solid bank of 6, even 8 men behind the ball. He'll be completely lost in that set up, especially (and this has been a problem in our team for a while now) if on the other wing we've got the likes of Silva/Nasri, who for all their qualities should never be stuck out wide, or Navas who has the pace but rarely takes on and beats the full back, and his end product leaves something to be desired. Bad decisions have been made over the past few years and often it is to the detriment of some fantastic players. Asking Kompany to play a high line, silva out wide, dzeko with his back to goal constantly, not sorting out the left side of defence/midfield which inevitably leads the left sided centre back (Lescott, Mangala) high and dry. Even Bony, who i do think is a great striker, is only going to struggle unless we start to play more direct balls into the box instead of pissing about passing the ball wide,edge of the box, back to the centre and repeat. Every style of play works with the right players, unfortunately we still seem to be in the kid in a sweet shop stage, buying the flavour of the month and as garry cook famously alluded to, players who's names 'roll off the tongue in bejing' seemingly without giving much consideration to how they would fit tactically. Bottom line is that if we are serious about going in for the likes of sterling, barkley ect, then we must have a clear plan as to how we are going to use them as not to risk ruining their careers, and stunt the development of the team as a whole.

 

[IWasHere]

I don't see it, what the fuss is about. He's quick I'll give him that. 90% of his efforts at goal are ballooned over the bar. If you aren't much good at giving a pass and are a footballer that to me immediately should mean you can never command more than a £20-25 million price tag. People are seriously debating if a winger that can't cross is worth chucking over €35 million on and paying him a kings ransom....Jesus Christ!

Nice to know someone's on the same page :-)

Let's see what the next SWP does in this match. He'll do fuck all and some people would still want to splash out 50 mil on him :-)

You could say the same at most of our players against Arsenal this season. Stupid comment.

No you can't because most of our players are above average, sterling isn't. Bear in mind, kroos cost 24 mil, Costa cost 32 mil, the magician cost us 24mil yet you get people who say we should buy sterling for 20-30 mil never mind 50. He won't make our squad any better, he's below average (he past few games even showed it), he'd be a waste of money and he's overrated.


Oh and he's overrated.

 

[bluechampion7891]

I don't see it, what the fuss is about. He's quick I'll give him that. 90% of his efforts at goal are ballooned over the bar. If you aren't much good at giving a pass and are a footballer that to me immediately should mean you can never command more than a £20-25 million price tag. People are seriously debating if a winger that can't cross is worth chucking over €35 million on and paying him a kings ransom....Jesus Christ!

Nice to know someone's on the same page :-)

Let's see what the next SWP does in this match. He'll do fuck all and some people would still want to splash out 50 mil on him :-)

You could say the same at most of our players against Arsenal this season. Stupid comment.

No you can't because most of our players are above average, sterling isn't. Bear in mind, kroos cost 24 mil, Costa cost 32 mil, the magician cost us 24mil yet you get people who say we should buy sterling for 20-30 mil never mind 50. He won't make our squad any better, he's below average (he past few games even showed it), he'd be a waste of money and he's overrated.


Oh and he's overrated.

add english tax, selling to City tax, and potential tax to those prices and they ill quickly jump

Kroos was in his last year and Bayern fans don't miss him

 

[SuperBlu]

When he played against us he was playing Messi, today he is not even close to SWP.

 

[FantasyIreland]

I don't see it, what the fuss is about. He's quick I'll give him that. 90% of his efforts at goal are ballooned over the bar. If you aren't much good at giving a pass and are a footballer that to me immediately should mean you can never command more than a £20-25 million price tag. People are seriously debating if a winger that can't cross is worth chucking over €35 million on and paying him a kings ransom....Jesus Christ!

Nice to know someone's on the same page :-)

Aye.....you're in fine company with him.

 

[Jazzman]

I think Sterling would be a great signing. In my humble opinion he will bring speed and unpredictability into our game. Like what Jovetic and Navas do, sometimes. Just better. I like the thought of having Navas on the right and Sterling on the left.