Sterling’s contract - three year extension confirmed

[Tevez City]

99m?

Sounds like a good deal

 

[TCIB]

One thing about all this i am certain on. IF Txiki has his heals dug in and so does Sterling then we will be sounding out possible replacements right now along with a few quiet words to other powerful football men (about selling him), the sort that sign checks for clubs. That is i think just how Txiki operates, he is usually 2 steps ahead of everyone else.

On that front i am not worried about being left high and dry at all. I would however, prefer Sterling to sign and shine with us. As others have noted Spain does have issues with racism on the terraces, not as bad as it was but it still happens. He has a great platform here to become one of England's best ever players, the grass is not always greener etc etc. As someone noted, go ask Sanchez about that.

I won't cry if he leaves but it will be like the girl who got away when you both see each other fleetingly; each of you with another partner and that twinge of "we could have been great" crosses both your faces. You still wish them the best but would rather it be with you.

 

[OB1]

As is often the case in negotiations, both sides need to be prepared to compromise if they both want to do a deal. If both sides rally want it, it will eventually get done.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

You do know that Kia joorabchian is the agent of Mahrez? Maybe not chucked out lol.

Didn't know that

You do know that Kia joorabchian is the agent of Mahrez? Maybe not chucked out lol.

I thought he had switched to an agency called Sport Invest last Christmas. That's what Google says anyway. I know that City severed links with Joorabchian and stopped dealing with him before Pep came in.

 

[Centurions]

Didn't know that

I thought he had switched to an agency called Sport Invest last Christmas. That's what Google says anyway. I know that City severed links with Joorabchian and stopped dealing with him before Pep came in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_Joorabchian#Sports_Invest_UK_Limited

I'm presuming it's the same company but he owns it.

 

[blue ranger]

Didn't know that

I thought he had switched to an agency called Sport Invest last Christmas. That's what Google says anyway. I know that City severed links with Joorabchian and stopped dealing with him before Pep came in.

No worries mate. Maybe he was lower profile this time ha ha.

 

[doobyedoobye]

Well his agent Aidy ward is a greedy bastard so I’m really not sure if there will be a possible solution sorted? Mullock is normally well in the loop and it sounds like raheems camp are set on what they want and we won’t entertain it. It’s a tough one as obviously Raheem is an important young and improving member of the squad, but I also understand the clubs point of view regarding current players wanting upgraded contracts and new arrivals wanting bigger money if Raheem gets £300,000 a week! First time I’ve actually thought there is a strong chance of him going :-(

I expect it's just posturing from both sides. The new era of incentive based rewards is a very sensible approach but maybe that negatively impacts agents' commissions?

 

[mosssideblue]

I expect it's just posturing from both sides. The new era of incentive based rewards is a very sensible approach but maybe that negatively impacts agents' commissions?

It probably is but I believe the club will feel he needs them more than they do him

 

[doobyedoobye]

It probably is but I believe the club will feel he needs them more than they do him

I'm sure Pep must have spoken to Raz directly and been able to tell whether he genuinely wants to stay and I also think Pere must be plugged into the chatter on the agent network.

 

[mosssideblue]

I'm sure Pep must have spoken to Raz directly and been able to tell whether he genuinely wants to stay and I also think Pere must be plugged into the chatter on the agent network.

I agree in that I do believe the club will already know his intentions. My feeling is that he wants to stay but he/his agent are asking for more than the club is willing to offer and that any compromise will be from the Sterling camp

 

[Mr.Feeny]

I think like most footballers he'd deal comfortably with the brain dead racism that he'd receive on occasion abroad. I'm talking the occasional monkey noise which is sadly common. I don't think that overly affects players.

It's more the systemic racism he receives here
from the press. Certain publications seems determined to bring him down based on little more than him being young, black, rich & determind. I imagine that is what gets him down. I don't see a Spanish paper being arsed about him buying his mum a house or having a Greggs.

I think he'll resign though.

I noticed the callous coverage and I reckon that you're right in that he won't be oblivious to that. It must bother him, and rightfully so.

Having said that, for a young athlete to leave his home and go abroad (especially to leave a comfortable environment like the one he has here where he's a starter for a championship winning team), he must think that the environment abroad is much more appealing than the current one. And I'm not exactly sure it's that much better. The monkey chants might be isolated incidents but they're much more incendiary than cynical newspaper articles by writers with an agenda.

If he does leave the premier league, it would be fair to say that you were right. But I hope (and do think) that he'll stay.

 

[kaz7]

Since when have we been a championship team?

 

[crazyg]

Championship-winning team. Easy enough to know that that was what I was trying to say for anyone with more than 5 brain cells.

You're at it again with your 5 brain cell comments. Why don't you try talking to people civilly, and perhaps your comments might not be taken apart when you are found lacking in the basic comprehension of our sports and language?
Just a suggestion, mind.

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

He's not in the same bracket as KDB or Sergio by some way so he shouldn't be on the same money.

1) He's not worth pissing off Sergio and KDB to retain him
2) He's highly replaceable.
3) He's being extremely greedy

 

[Mr.Feeny]

You're at it again with your 5 brain cell comments. You're a feking bellend. Rag prick.

Okkkk.

 

[Mr.Feeny]

He's not in the same bracket as KDB or Sergio by some way so he shouldn't be on the same money.

1) He's not worth pissing off Sergio and KDB to retain him
2) He's highly replaceable.
3) He's being extremely greedy

I think DeBryune is on 290k a week or close to it. Is Sterling demanding that much? I don't think he'll get that he deserves a raise from his current wages, don't you think?

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I wonder if the Mahrez signing was with a view to the club knowing that Sterling has ambitions to leave and play for Real Madrid?

 

[Mr.Feeny]

I wonder if the Mahrez signing was with a view to the club knowing that Sterling has ambitions to leave and play for Real Madrid?

But Guardiola was after Mahrez since the summer of 2017, if I'm not mistaken. Surely he wouldn't have been thinking that Sterling wanted to leave, back then. We hadn't won the title and Sterling wouldn't have been seeking the payraise (which might be the source of his displeasure) back then as there wouldn't have been any justification for it.

I think we were after Mahrez for depth and after having won the title, Sterling might believe he deserves more than he's getting while also being unhappy about the increased competition. We don't really know what's going through his mind.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Whilst the catalyst for the media onslaught was unquestionably Sterling daring to leave the dippers, and in the process delivering them (the media) a golden opportunity to harvest clicks galore, there is no way that from then on in racism hasn’t been an underlying motivation. The 4 papers that have consistently pilloried Sterling the most have been the Fail, the Sun, the Star and the Express, all of them right wing publications, all of them ever ready to play up to the prejudices of their demented readerships.
Every story in the Fail in particular comes with a comments section, and every story is designed to enrage Tory voters in the Shires to the point that they log on and start venting their bile. It has “go to” scapegoats too numerous to mention. Lily Allen and Gary Lineker both dared to speak out against conditions in the migrant camps in Northern France. Both are served up as tax dodging, luvvies on a near daily basis. There is always a non-story about “breastfeeding in public places” to undermine women’s rights, there is always a “single mums most likely to die of cancer” scare story designed to promote the idylls of marriage, and you would have to be blind not to see its agenda on Brexit, with 20 stories a day referring to “remoaners”, “traitors” (judges), and “the will of the people.”
I am constantly amazed then that people would imagine that papers would necessarily limit their prejudices to the front pages only, as if promulgating them on the sport’s pages would be to cross some imaginary line of morality. Raheem Sterling is a young, successful black man, of Jamaican descent, everything readers of the Fail would instinctively fear and loathe, and if you want a recent example of its race-related bias, it was the double page “a tattoo-free hero England can be proud of” pile of bullshit it served up as an homage to St Harry of Kaneshire when the manufactured “Sterling gun tattoo” outrage was at its zenith

Like it

 

[HenryNacho]

If this is just about money then I'm confident he'll stay. However, I'm a little worried that this isn't about the money but rather him wanting to go the route of Beckham and Bale in moving to Madrid.