Raheem Sterling - Done - See main forum

[heyheyhaha]

I hope we've kept the receipt then.

I'm not saying he's a bad player or a bad signing; I think he's one of the best young players in Europe. Maybe the best at his age. The fee is ludicrously high but for a club where money is no object I'm not sure that even matters. All I'm saying is that "Liverpool's best player" isn't a claim that anyone who actually watches Liverpool play regularly could possibly make about Sterling on current ability.

 

[hutton who blue]

Fuck the expense, he's a City player now wearing our blue to tear our opponents a new one. Welcome, Raheem.

 

[aa123]

V good players go for this kind of fee.Shaw went to the rags for 30 or there abouts. Who has got the better deal.also can you an answer my earlier post?
It's a great forum and you won't get banned , we like banter

Yeh but id want to pay that kind of money after hes proved himself rather than before. If he was with us for another 3 years, became a great player , and then you bought him for £49million, that makes sense. That might even hurt. But not for where hes at in his development.

Sterling remember is 20. Hes great for his age. He isnt great full stop. Hes great for a youngster.

Quite often for example his final ball is really bad, his shooting is poor, and he dribbles into cul de sacs. On sky there was a dribbling completion rate and his was 44% whilst Silva, Nasri and Navas were in the 70% area. But thats fine because hes 20 and he cost nothing. Hes learning the game. Im not sure what the reaction to that type of stuff will be from the fans, press, media, opposition fans will be when you cost £49million.

We tolerate his weaknesses, but im not sure you will when you find out what they are, at that price. I dont think we would if we paid that price.

Do you mean in terms of having a rich owner? For sure.

 

[mgreenz97]

I'm not saying he's a bad player or a bad signing; I think he's one of the best young players in Europe. Maybe the best at his age. The fee is ludicrously high but for a club where money is no object I'm not sure that even matters. All I'm saying is that "Liverpool's best player" isn't a claim that anyone who actually watches Liverpool play regularly could possibly make about Sterling on current ability.

He's certainly close to being their best player. Coutinho is the only real competition he has for that title. Sturridge is quality but injury prone and has dropped off massively since Suarez left, along with just about every other player at the club bar Sterling, Coutinho and Henderson.

 

[citymad]

Cue every commentator mentioning the transfer fee and "big spending" City every 5 mins. The knives will be out big time next season and we will get absolutely no credit for any success.

 

[Citizen in Pakistan]

some are very speculative of sterling out here and on the social networks,and so was i since the 50m price tag was flashing out in the media but then i think a point which many ignored that he is only 20,last season he was played out of position and roger just asked him for to much for his age,with the quality we posses he surely would be a great signing
finally one target out of the way,on to pogba :P

 

[Why Always Ste]

General Public en masse transition from Sterling the Saviour to Raheem the Terrorist.

But it's alright laaar as Jordan Henderson is on the cover of FIFA :/

 

[hutton who blue]

A cracking young player with tons of potential, playing with world class players, watch him shine at City, blues.

 

[superseiyan]

Coutinho has about 5 good games a season, if he truly was your best player then the likes of City and Chelsea would be in for him.

We're not because he isn't.

You needed a player like Sterling more than a player like Coutinho. Chelsea have Fabregas and Hazard as their creative outlets.

Coutinho will start the 2018/19 season at Barca or Madrid unfortunately for us.

 

[superseiyan]

Sterling is a good prospect, but for £49million id want a quality player, not someone who might be quality.

Price is irrelevant for City, and we should actually be happy that that's the case and we were able to get that much.

Sterling is not a "good prospect" that "might be" quality. That's Ibe.

Sterling is a mouthwatering prospect that might be/will probably be a star. There's a difference.

Let's just hope we spend the 49M well. Let's hope that Ibe and Markovic can develop a little.

 

[Chevelle]

Isn't he even better than Ronaldo and Messi at their age? He plays like he is a great 25 year old!

 

[Sergi0 Na5r1]

Price is irrelevant for City, and we should actually be happy that that's the case and we were able to get that much.

Sterling is not a "good prospect" that "might be" quality. That's Ibe.

Sterling is a mouthwatering prospect that might be/will probably be a star. There's a difference.

Let's just hope we spend the 49M well. Let's hope that Ibe and Markovic can develop a little.

Thank you for that sensible post

 

[taconinja]

Price is irrelevant for City, and we should actually be happy that that's the case and we were able to get that much.

Sterling is not a "good prospect" that "might be" quality. That's Ibe.

Sterling is a mouthwatering prospect that might be/will probably be a star. There's a difference.

Let's just hope we spend the 49M well. Let's hope that Ibe and Markovic can develop a little.

I thought your share is £36 million due to the sell-on fee. Not a jab, just wondering if I misunderstood.

 

[Sergi0 Na5r1]

I thought your share is £36 million due to the sell-on fee. Not a jab, just wondering if I misunderstood.

QPR gets about 9m

 

[Chevelle]

You could make the same argument for any player though, whoever you buy.

Look how much Silva, Yaya, Zabaleta, and Kompany improved at City.. they have played their best football here. They train with them they link with them.

Have you not noticed that Raheem's performance went down when Suarez left and Sturridge got injured?

 

[Chi-town blues]

49 million is equivalent 26-29 million few years back. We got a good deal for a 20 years old proven talent in senior team.
So shut the fuck up.....haters

 

[unlikelyfan19]

49 million is equivalent 26-29 million few years back. We got a good deal for a 20 years old proven talent in senior team.
So shut the fuck up.....haters

This. People act like all premiere league clubs were going to start receiving twice the amount of money with the new tv deal, yet players were going to stay the same price? Yeah. That's not how economics works unfortunately.

 

[superseiyan]

Look how much Silva, Yaya, Zabaleta, and Kompany improved at City.. they have played their best football here. They train with them they link with them.

Have you not noticed that Raheem's performance went down when Suarez left and Sturridge got injured?

That's part of it. But also being overplayed, and also when played being played as a striker or a wing-back didn't help. And being 20, no player at 20 is the finished article.

 

[unlikelyfan19]

Look how much Silva, Yaya, Zabaleta, and Kompany improved at City.. they have played their best football here. They train with them they link with them.

Have you not noticed that Raheem's performance went down when Suarez left and Sturridge got injured?

So what, honestly. Now he gets to play with Augero, Silva, Yaya, Nasri, possibly Pogba, etc. of course people play better when they play next to great players, even more reason to be excited, we have lots of them!

 

[Dribble]

If this transfer goes through the main thing the media detractors need to understand is that its the Dipper's who set the price we were forced to pay not us.

He's 20, and was a first team player at the 2013/14 Premier League champions (or so the media would have us believe), he was England's best player at the world cup and ticks all the boxes for the type of player we need.

We had a choice; pay what the Dippers wanted or move on, so we've paid up. I honestly believe that history will show who eventually got the better deal. At the end of this transfer window, I think the important point that will concentrate everyone's minds is that Manchester City Football Club have paid a world record fee for a 21 year old who was Liverpool's best player and most saleable asset and who still had his whole career in front of him and has huge scope to improve further.

Sterling's transfer represents a paradigm shift in the powerbase of English football and proves once and for all that Liverpool are no longer a member of the big 4 and can just about claim to be members of the big 7. Nothing illustrated this more than Liverpool's great and good of yesteryear being exhumed on live TV to decry Sterling and his agent for turning their backs on this once great football institution to better themselves.

The £49m we've just been forced to pay for Liverpool's best player has further reaching consequences than the money we've had to shell out. In the summer of 2008, could we have ever imagined a time that Liverpool and Arsenal players in their peak would seek to leave those clubs for Manchester City to better themselves and further their careers? That is the real story behind this transfer.....