Raheem Sterling

Chelsea offering him 10 million to fuck off early as they still owe him 30 million! Not hearing much about this in the press. Imagine the outrage if it was us!
 
His career seemed to have stalled since leaving "lickle ol' Citeh". Let's be honest; he did precious little at Chelsea, and even less at Arsenal (that was a strange signing). Yes; his last 18 months or so with us were underwhelming. No point denying that. He'd admit that himself.
But he was excellent in his first four or five seasons with us, which some on here seem to have forgotten. That Centurions season, with him and Sane out wide, and Aguero and Jesus up the middle, and Merlin and Kev regularly threading the eye of the needle in midfield was an utter joy to watch. That side really should have a CL to their name. I hate to say it, but they were far more entertaining than the current bunch of mercenaries we have playing for us!





JOKING!!!!!!!
 
Xhavenjoe said:
I think of both of them had stayed with us a little longer, it may have been better to them in the long term.
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Sterling was on his way down at the time and we moved him on and got good money. Shame we’ve not been so shrewd with other players since. Sane even though he was going to leave us anyway was never the same player after doing his cruciate in the charity shield. I watched him when he was in decent form Munich and a defender caught him when he was clean through. Would never have happened before that injury.

Shame Sane didn’t become the player he should have been. Probably the most exciting player for me, when he was on it of the Pep era. I think Raz got the absolute most out of his ability whilst playing for Pep. Alright he could frustrate and you’d think if he chose the right option better etc. To score the amount of goals he did though without ever being a natural finisher was some going.
 
I still (I think!) recall that last minute winner against Southampton (?) when he curled it in (no sniggering!) at the North/Family stand end. He went speeding off up the Touchline towards the other end of the ground and Mendy (remember him?) went chasing him. On crutches! The medics must have had kittens watching that!


Apologies for all the brackets!
 
jimharri said:
I still (I think!) recall that last minute winner against Southampton (?) when he curled it in (no sniggering!) at the North/Family stand end. He went speeding off up the Touchline towards the other end of the ground and Mendy (remember him?) went chasing him. On crutches! The medics must have had kittens watching that!


Apologies for all the brackets!
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That was almost up there with the Agüeroooooooooo! moment, in terms of crowd reaction.

It looked as though the Saints were going to hold on for a point, until that moment of magic.

We laughed many times over Mendy chasing Raheem:

 
Even those "poor" last 18 months with us was better than 95% dross we ve been playing for the last 18 months.
And it was deserving he finished the season and his time with us with that beautiful cross that got us back into the game.
I am still not sure how we managed to get from players like peak Raz to this lot that everybody can see are just above average at best.
 
I always said we’d never win the Champions League with Sterling.

We did the Treble the season after he left.
 
Vienna_70 said:
That was almost up there with the Agüeroooooooooo! moment, in terms of crowd reaction.

It looked as though the Saints were going to hold on for a point, until that moment of magic.

We laughed many times over Mendy chasing Raheem:

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My row in 315 had 2 of us in it, we were running along it.

Some people never learn.
 
Despite being integral to the team for 3/4 seasons he was brilliant one minute and really frustrating the next.
Couldn't really take to him like kdb,Silva etc.
Great bit of business by city to get £45m for him.
Wish him well but I don't think of him as a city legend despite his achievements at the club.
 
mattcity5 said:
In successive seasons he scored 23, 25, 31, 14 and 17 goals.

He wasn't perfect, but let's not do him down unnecessarily. We"re desperate for someone to do those kind of numbers other than Erling right now.
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I just hope it is not the Jack fan boys slagging him off.
His worst goalscoring season out of the above 5 seasons was more than Jack scored in all his City career.
As others have posted how have we went from Raheem to Grealish,Doku and Silvino.
Jack was more popular but. Raheem had the figures to back it up
 
He was streets ahead of our current wingers, but with caveats that we created twenty odd chances per game regularly back then.
 
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