I'd have to disagree, I think his skin colour is a factor sadly. I get the leaving Liverpool thing from ex pros but not from journalists. It doesn't surprise me one bit which papers continue this weird crusade against him.
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Sterling’s contract - three year extension confirmed
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I'd have to disagree, I think his skin colour is a factor sadly. I get the leaving Liverpool thing from ex pros but not from journalists. It doesn't surprise me one bit which papers continue this weird crusade against him.
City refusing to blink over Sterling's contract demands:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/foot...em-sterling-transfer-manchester-city-13448904
Written by Simon Mullock who I thought was generally good with City related stuff or have I got that wrong?
Simon is usually spot on. I like the stance the club is taking here. Raz doesn’t deserve to be best paid but he should be up there. Only the likes of Kun, Kev, and Dave should be earning more, players that have been delivering the goods for years now and are consistent.
Per article he’s asking for £300k per week, let’s see Real and Barca pay him that as well as a large transfer fee after roughly more than one good season. He would be immediately one of the best paid in their squads probably only behind Messi at Barca and Bale at Real.
In short it’s not going to happen.
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I would love him to stay but I'm not sure he's irreplaceable. Pep has improved Sterling drastically from when he first came to City and I'd back Pep to do something similar with his replacement if it comes to that.
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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 :-(
The issue is that we overpaid on wages to get him here.
To me I would argue he is better value at 300K now, than he was 175K than (obviously we brought on potential. With the transfer fee he will have cost us 19 mil a year and the new deal costs us 15 mil.
I’m not saying pay him the extra but if the report is true we only want to go to 200K an increase of 25K, than I can see Sterling’s point. We are trying to right a wrong.
Sane I believe is on about 80K so if we offered 180K you would imagine he would be ecstatic. Wages go up once signed, a reason to agree early. With Sterling he is probably in no rush as the increase would not really effect him in the same way.
To me I would argue he is better value at 300K now, than he was 175K than (obviously we brought on potential. With the transfer fee he will have cost us 19 mil a year and the new deal costs us 15 mil.
I’m not saying pay him the extra but if the report is true we only want to go to 200K an increase of 25K, than I can see Sterling’s point. We are trying to right a wrong.
Sane I believe is on about 80K so if we offered 180K you would imagine he would be ecstatic. Wages go up once signed, a reason to agree early. With Sterling he is probably in no rush as the increase would not really effect him in the same way.
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I disagree that it is racism - always believed that. For me it is simply because he dared to leave the dippers who once upon a time were the best club in the land and are media darlings.
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
I'm getting a bit bored of this now.
I've been on Sterling's side as much as anyone since he got here, but as much as I love him and want him to stay, I don't think the club is stingy with wages. Our players get paid very well, and we've not had anyone complaining about not being given enough for as long as I can remember so I find it hard to believe they're short-changing him.
With transfer targets, like Sanchez, there seems to be a consensus that this is a side players should be desperate to join. Just broken 100 points, and dozens of other records, Guardiola contracted for 3 more years, favourites to win every tournament we're in. Players shouldn't need paying over the odds to join us because we're giving them everything they could want as a footballer.
At a certain point the same is true for those already here.
I've been on Sterling's side as much as anyone since he got here, but as much as I love him and want him to stay, I don't think the club is stingy with wages. Our players get paid very well, and we've not had anyone complaining about not being given enough for as long as I can remember so I find it hard to believe they're short-changing him.
With transfer targets, like Sanchez, there seems to be a consensus that this is a side players should be desperate to join. Just broken 100 points, and dozens of other records, Guardiola contracted for 3 more years, favourites to win every tournament we're in. Players shouldn't need paying over the odds to join us because we're giving them everything they could want as a footballer.
At a certain point the same is true for those already here.
Per article he’s asking for £300k per week, let’s see Real and Barca pay him that as well as a large transfer fee after roughly more than one good season. He would be immediately one of the best paid in their squads probably only behind Messi at Barca and Bale at Real.
They won't have to pay a large transfer fee if he runs down his contract. And he'll easily get 300k a week if he waits until January 2020 to negotiate with a foreign team.