Raheem Sterling | Joins Chelsea for £50m

[mosssideblue]

Makes sense to sell him.

Makes no sense not to buy a replacement.

Always the same. Sell some players without replacement. They will never learn. Not a proactive business and instead of depth, our board is creating problems. The same with Aguero and Kompany in 2019.

Sorry, but cannot agree with your sentiment. We are arguably the best run club in world football.

We have learnt, in that we don't buy for the sake of it, we go for the player we want, even if that means waiting a while.

 

[Chappie]

Makes sense to sell him.

Makes no sense not to buy a replacement.

Always the same. Sell some players without replacement. They will never learn. Not a proactive business and instead of depth, our board is creating problems. The same with Aguero and Kompany in 2019.

And we have won how many trophies since 2019.
Quite proactive, I think

 

[Dobsy]

So supposedly Chelsea have offered £21 mil. If Sterling is on let's say £300,000 a week that covers his wages for his final year and he goes.
If he stays we pay £15 mil and he goes for free.
So 21 mil profit or £15 mil we pay and then get nothing.

We get one full season of Sterling, so not 'nothing'.

 

[CC1]

Makes sense to sell him.

Makes no sense not to buy a replacement.

Always the same. Sell some players without replacement. They will never learn. Not a proactive business and instead of depth, our board is creating problems. The same with Aguero and Kompany in 2019.

Oh dear. 4 PL titles in 5 years is a rather nice problem they created.

 

[01cravend]

Know he only has a year left but selling him for slightly more than we'd have to pay for Cucurella is mental to me.

 

[vincent]

Oh dear. 4 PL titles in 5 years is a rather nice problem they created.

Some of these newish posters (probably newish fans too) don’t know how good we have it. Constant negativity from them. This cycle of success will eventually come to an end. This place will be unbearable then.

 

[Saddleworth2]

I will miss him if he goes. What a contribution he has made.

 

[melrose40yarder]

I fully trust our club will do whatever is best for our club.
If he goes he goes.
Your eyes dont lie he has been off it for the best part of a year.However there is still the odd flash of brilliance.Personally i would sell him but not for a penny less than £50 million.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Sterling has been offered a new contract and that's been on the table for a while. Ahsan (billyshears) is well informed and has been saying this for a while. The problem is he (Sterling) doesn't seem to want whatever's on offer, for whatever reason. It's nothing to do with what we've done or not done.

I'm not convinced he really wants to be here longer term and his form has dropped off a cliff. He still gets goals and assists but even his biggest fans can't deny he's not the incredible talent has was a couple of years ago. He needs to find his spark again.

Let's face it, when the team is announced and he isn't in the starting XI, how many still think "No Sterling? WTF is Pep thinking?"

I'd take £45m plus maybe £5m add-ons. He owes us nothing and it gives us a very tidy profit.

An improved offer has been on the table for 18 months, just as it was with Sane.

As with Leroy, he asked for time, he asked for more starts, he asked for more money.

City were happy to take the player at his word, as they also did with Milner.

Raheem then put things on ice last summer and got rid of his agent Aidy Ward.

It's hasn't passed the smell test for City for a while and there is an acceptance that Raheem probably just fancies a change of scene after seven years and was trying to maximise his last big move as a free agent.

Chelsea's interest, however, has emerged as a convenient option for both Raheem and City, which could yet smoke out others.

But Chelsea is pretty much a perfect move which ticks a lot of boxes and the simple truth is Pep is not exactly indifferent to him leaving, but sees the sense in it for everyone.

It would be excellent business for City and Raheem.

 

[mdj0520]

Makes sense to sell him.

Makes no sense not to buy a replacement.

Always the same. Sell some players without replacement. They will never learn. Not a proactive business and instead of depth, our board is creating problems. The same with Aguero and Kompany in 2019.

You act as if we haven't won the league since then. Also, those were completely different scenarios to sterling. You're right, we should have replaced kompany and aguero at the times as their positions were shallow at the time.

Sterling is leaving a position we are stacked in. Foden played false 9 most of last season so bringing in haaland means we have almost 1 more player. We have grealish, foden, Mahrez, Alvarez, and Palmer in wing positions.

If you want to throw a tantrum, look at midfield/the 8s where, if Bernardo leaves, we have two injury prone players the wrong side of 30. With Phillips coming in we could maybe play a 4231 some games, but we still need someone else there. Much higher priority than a winger.