Raheem Sterling | Joins Chelsea for £50m

[Pezzer2]

Mixed feeling about this ! He’s been a great asset for us and his figures don’t lie. He must be a nightmare for defenders, with his pace and strength and he never seems to be fatigued or injured.
However on the flip side he can be so frustrating, he doesn’t look comfortable on goal unless it’s instinct and can run into blind alleys etc. I’m probably reading too much into this but he doesn’t seem to have connected with the City fans as much as other players. It’s probably just his demeanour and doesn’t like all the fuss etc..
He’s been a great servant for us and I wish him all the best. It will be a big loss but I’m sure we will quickly move on.

 

[Coatigan]

Agreed, just infuriating when he misses that tap in.

Like 4 times out of 130.


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[BringBackSwales]

Benefits of staying to the end - see all the late winners and miss the crowds

I will never ever get the rush to leave. You miss some great football, goals, and don’t show respect to the players. Fuck met they must have important lives these early leavers. I was tempted away at spurs 3 0 down and Barton sent off, but couldn’t be arsed to leave. Won 4 3 and have never contemplated leaving early since. My teenage sons refuse to leave the ground until the last player has left the pitch (argued with stewards after the Villa game cos they told us to leave and there were still 2 players on the pitch). Tbf I prefer the Johnny Come Latelys to the Johnny Leave Earlies

 

[BringBackSwales]

Agreed, just infuriating when he misses that tap in.

More Infuriating that he has had so little respect for the brilliance he has shown season after season. For some reason some people like to focus on the negatives rather than the positives. He has been unbelievably good for us and we will miss him

 

[Keepingthefaithsince1976]

Well yeah, I wouldn't exactly feel a connection with this fanbase if I was him. Partly because of what you've just pointed out. The shit that gets said on social media and in the stands about him every week is enough to put me off a large portion of you so I can't imagine how it feels for him.

Raheem Sterling is the example of a player who has had the media trying to bring him down ever since he made it big. He's suffered countless instances of racist abuse from inside and outside the stadium by gammon fans of all different clubs, including ours.

I'd start seeing it as nothing more than a job, too and I don't get why people act like a guy who has put up with so much shit for so long and seen his name dragged through the mud so many times owes anyone anything.

You guys can't help but have constant digs at him and make insinuations about his personality but I'll leave you with the words of somebody who actually knows and has worked with him; Kevin De Bruyne. I'd like to think they carry a bit more weight than your ten a penny bitter blue:




I am a brutally honest person. So I will let you in on a little secret. Before I came to Manchester City, I didn’t really know what to make of this Raheem Sterling guy. I had never met him, and from what I’d read about him in the English press, I thought he was going to be a very different character.

I thought.…

Well.…

I didn’t think he’d be a bad guy, really. But the tabloids were always claiming that he was arrogant. So I guess I thought he’d be … what do the English call it?

A bit of a dickhead, maybe?

Raheem and I have this strong connection, because we arrived at City around the same time, and there was a lot of negativity about us in the press. They said I was “the Chelsea reject.” They said Raheem was this flashy guy who left Liverpool for money. They said we were difficult characters.

Of course, when you read this stuff about yourself, you think, Me? I’m not difficult. This is ridiculous. These people don’t even know me! But honestly, when you read about other players, it influences the way you think. You can’t help it.

Then I got to City and I actually met Raheem, and we’d talk a bit after training, and I thought, Wait, this guy seems really cool? What’s the story here?

Truthfully, I don’t have many close friends — inside or outside of football. It takes me a really long time to open up to people. But over time, I got closer to Raheem, because our sons were born around the same time, so they would always play together. I really got to know Raheem, and I recognized what a smart and genuine person he is. He couldn’t be more different from what the tabloids were saying.

This is the real truth: Raheem is one of the nicest, most humble guys I’ve met in football.

Just because i dont rate him as consistently good as a footballer doesnt really mean i am a rascist to him or disrespectful of his abilities or personality. Plus fans on bluemoon are not the media. This is a forum for opinions as far as i see. If paying fans want a change why not be free to say. As is the right of others who want him to stay.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Just because i dont rate him as consistently good as a footballer doesnt really mean i am a rascist to him or disrespectful of his abilities or personality.

Nobody said you are or you do. I don't get why you'd feel the need to defend yourself when a comment isn't about you.

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

Needy much !

It's not needy at all. @tolmie's hairdoo is just saying that he hopes he comes out with a proper goodbye and thank you. He's been a fantastic player for us on the whole and the club have made him an extremely wealthy man. We haven't sung about anyone else being top of the league, often whilst he was experiencing a lot of criticism in the media - so I think a 'thanks for all of your support' to the fans is more than deserved.

 

[foggy1974]

I suppose the delivery from the right might not be as important, though?

From the right, Haaland will have to let the ball come across his body for his left foot, a much harder skill.

I'd argue Foden and Grealish will have more success where they are delivering from the left and it's running right into his path?

He's a monster, either way, but that run to the front left post is the one to watch for.

Didnt Kev play as left centre mid at times last season

 

[foggy1974]

This has been coming.
It's a moment to set aside the criticism and the accolades, the weighing and sifting, just take our hats off and thank him. He's been a major part of everything that's happened since 2015. And a lot has. I don't think I'm alone in having felt a peculiar protectiveness about him, since I don't think I've ever, in half a century of following football, seen a player take such an inexplicable cartload of shit up and down the country from supporters who had no dog in the fight either way.
I'd rather you'd gone abroad, Raheem, but you're your own man. All the best.

Well said

 

[Dirty Harry]

This has been coming.
It's a moment to set aside the criticism and the accolades, the weighing and sifting, just take our hats off and thank him. He's been a major part of everything that's happened since 2015. And a lot has. I don't think I'm alone in having felt a peculiar protectiveness about him, since I don't think I've ever, in half a century of following football, seen a player take such an inexplicable cartload of shit up and down the country from supporters who had no dog in the fight either way.
I'd rather you'd gone abroad, Raheem, but you're your own man. All the best.

Well said mate, Raheem has excited and frustrated me in equal measure as a player , but as a person, I will always have total respect for him, how he’s always tried to conduct himself, and how he called out sections of the media, appalling how he’s been portrayed and treated up and down the country.