I have to say this obsession with price drives me mad too.
I am a football fan, what matters is what happens on the pitch not how many beans are being counted.
I blame the sports media for driving the money angle constantly which causes us to lose sight of what's important when it comes to the game.
Are you guys worried about Sterlings wage at all? If the reported £200.000/week is correct, that would put him £15k ahead of Aguero and £55k ahead of Silva.
Is there a risk that this will trigger new wage demands among the current players?
I think once the dust has settled and the football begins the fees involved will soon be forgotten. The thing with Sterling is that he's English and he's going to be central to the future of the England national team. Whatever negative press there currently is surrounding the deal, it'll take one stand out performance for the entire narrative to move on from the "he's so expensive" bandwagon to "he's the English Ronaldo we're gonna win the euros".
I don't think any player at any age would be better off under Rodgers. The guy is a complete and utter fraud.You guys are really defensive. It was a question about youth development at your club and Pellegrini, and some of you have reacted like its the most insane question youve ever heard.
If your saying City doesnt have that problem, at all, definitely not, then I think youre turning a blind eye to it.
Heres another way of looking at it. At ages 20-23 , still immature , he would probably be better off under Rodgers and Wenger. When hes developed as a player, thats the time to be playing at City.
David Silva aged 20 moving to City would not have been as right as Silva aged 24 moving City.
No no no. You can't compare the fee to that of Andy Carroll, you have to compare it to Sergio's or some other fee from years ago that now looks like an incredible bargain. You should know the fucking rules by now.Exactly. Even the price for a bottle of milk has gone up since dipper overpaid mighty Carroll few years ago.
Sterling is twice the player and he is only 20 years old and worth every penny.
I was cocerned if the dippers were going to raise the price around 60-70 falling for bluff call from Chelsea .
Are you guys worried about Sterlings wage at all? If the reported £200.000/week is correct, that would put him £15k ahead of Aguero and £55k ahead of Silva.
Is there a risk that this will trigger new wage demands among the current players?
From the new ITK to KFA in two hours brilliant !Tomorrow now, apparently.
Are you guys worried about Sterlings wage at all? If the reported £200.000/week is correct, that would put him £15k ahead of Aguero and £55k ahead of Silva.
Is there a risk that this will trigger new wage demands among the current players?
opposite applies sometimes too. Michael Owen was mint when he left Liverpool, and never lived up to that anywhere else.Of course it wouldn't. Because players peak and mature at vastly different rates.
You don't measure every player by their age because their ability, aptitude and capability to make it at a particular level or club will always vary significantly.
Sterling has served his apprenticeship at Liverpool, and now he's making a step up to play under greater pressure, under more scrutiny, among some of the best players in Europe competing for honours at the top of the domestic game and in Europe.
He's shown ambition. Time will tell if he develops into the player he truly has the potential of becoming, and if he does, £49m will be small change.
We are developing our youth quite nicely thanks- as will be proved with Sterling this season-Sterling is one of those rare players that is good enough now to step up a level at the age he is, your club saw his potential whilst he was at QPR, City see also see it how he has played at Liverpool.
City will include EDS players in the first team squad this season in Denayer and Iheanacho, the conveyer belt is running just fine fella so dont you worry about MCFC.
The bit that goes to the taxman gets spent on schools and hospitals and such.The transfer fee inflation isn't as big a deal as the wages. At least with the transfer fees a large percentage stays within the game (less agent fees). But with wages, it goes right to players and the taxman, never to be seen again.
But they don't matter so it's all good!Id like to think you are right about the fees being forgotten but I'm not sure the liverpool biased media (Carragher et al.) will let it drop...everytime one of them is commentating or being a pundit on one of out matches you know it is going to get brought up...they will be waiting for the slightest mistake or under par performance from the lad (and it will happen because it happens to EVERY player regardless of how good they are).....they are unbelievably bitter
Not worried at all, the club spent a good deal of time recently reducing wages in favour of bonuses, Sterling will be no different
The numbers being banded about are pure speculation.............. i.e. Bullshit
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-teenager-ready-help-porous-Manchester-City-bOk well in terms of backing up my point how many games have they played, and how much time do they have to develop in the first team?
Of course it does, but it's not kept within football, which means clubs end up back at square one financially, as the TV money increases, it's goes right through to players, and the clubs are still skint!The bit that goes to the taxman gets spent on schools and hospitals and such.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-teenager-ready-help-porous-Manchester-City-b
This lad is destined for the top, plenty of games to go round for a lad with his talent