Raheem Sterling | Joins Chelsea for £50m

[mexico1970]

A couple of years ago two men were convicted at court for racially ab usi g Sterling, both men in their late 50s and lifelong City fans. Bournmouth match I think. 5 year ban and fined.
Other City fans reported and witnessed the incident.
Which would you categorize that as abuse or criticism ?

The scousers would have moved the men to the directors box and given them free FKW kits and a plaque outside the stadium.

 

[mosssideblue]

Still means we can negotiate a decent fee for him, if he goes into the next window with less than a year left he is worth next to nothing.

It's his wages that will hurt

 

[Keeper!]

It's his wages that will hurt

The way the game is going, more and more players are running down there deals and wages will go even higher.

What will Mbappe, Pogba and Haaland be on this times next year?

 

[meeesh]

Christ Haha.

Even he can't help at times,and believe me I've asked for his help for both me and Sterling at times

 

[bluealf]

I think for those that pretend Sterling hasn't been abused or they think that he is fairly criticised then go and look at the player performance thread.

Look at the number of pages all the other players have got and then take a look at the size of Sterling's, then go away and think that an average of 40 pages for the other players and a thread up to 250 pages by January is fair and consistent with how other players have played or haven't played and then commented on, it is ludicrous to even think Sterling is commented on in a fair and impartial fashion and that is both ways but I can at least understand his defenders doing so.

There has been plenty of abuse on here for those that are too blind to see it, in his player threads or in the matchday thread, where it goes way above general criticism of a player out of form.

 

[blueparrot]

Not sure him signing a new contract protects his transfer value as he is already on wages prohibitive to most.

We wouldn’t offer a new contract to protect any fee. If we offer a contract the only reason is it’s to keep him and play him. If we didn’t want to keep him we’d sell for whatever we could get this summer.

 

[balotellishaircut]

It's his wages that will hurt

Well the buying club would negotiate his wages down and pay extra in bonuses, simple

 

[mosssideblue]

We wouldn’t offer a new contract to protect any fee. If we offer a contract the only reason is it’s to keep him and play him. If we didn’t want to keep him we’d sell for whatever we could get this summer.

You need to look at the post I responded to

 

[kaz7]

I think for those that pretend Sterling hasn't been abused or they think that he is fairly criticised then go and look at the player performance thread.

Look at the number of pages all the other players have got and then take a look at the size of Sterling's, then go away and think that an average of 40 pages for the other players and a thread up to 250 pages by January is fair and consistent with how other players have played or haven't played and then commented on, it is ludicrous to even think Sterling is commented on in a fair and impartial fashion and that is both ways but I can at least understand his defenders doing so.

There has been plenty of abuse on here for those that are too blind to see it, in his player threads or in the matchday thread, where it goes way above general criticism of a player out of form.

Not to mention the amount of times his threads have needed to be cleaned up , lots of out of order abuse

 

[NMB]

The way the game is going, more and more players are running down there deals and wages will go even higher.

What will Mbappe, Pogba and Haaland be on this times next year?

I’m pretty certain that Raheem will run his contract down and unless a significant offer which acceptable to both him and City comes in in the meantime he will be allowed to do so. Same with Gundogan and Mahrez unless they want to extend. This is the way things are going. Recruitment of free agents who will end up with top wages (like PSG this season) will become the norm.