Neville said this on football focus earlier, and he was talking absolute nonsense. I have no idea why he was talking about Sterling replacing Costa or Aguero apart from the fact that he hasn't got a clue what he is on about.
Raheem Sterling | Signs for Man City for £49,000,000
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Neville said this on football focus earlier, and he was talking absolute nonsense. I have no idea why he was talking about Sterling replacing Costa or Aguero apart from the fact that he hasn't got a clue what he is on about.
Anything over 45 million euros will probably be to much.
We have the money but he is 20 and lost the buzz a bit.
I would trust Pep and the club if we spend more so.
Can see 7 million in wages.
Jason Burt of telegraph reporting that we've made an informal enquiry for Sterling and have asked to be kept informed about the developments
"United have enquired about Sterling". Liverpool: Hello, who is it? United: We wanna buy Sterling, how much? Liverpool: feck OFF, 5 TIMES!
Next season we still have another spot unless you think Mata should be our first choice winger.
And I didn't mention Madrid.
Would offer £40m
I think that would be a suitable offer for a player who has bags of potential but has also had a stop start season who also only has a year/two left on his contract with no intention of signing an extension.
A signing like this I think would send out a huge statement not only that we can still buy the most talented of players but it would all but end the debate who is the bigger side, it's unthinkable that Liverpool would buy any of our best players but us signing Raheem although difficult isn't impossible.
Don't do it Raheem
He's certainly up there. As I said earlier in this thread, the ability to slot into numerous positions and do a job suggests he's not daft. Could develop into a hell of a player.
Good news.
If Raheem Sterling was putting up these kid of performances for QPR I would say that Manchester United should pay what ever necessary to get him at the club. But, since he is at Liverpool it probably will not happen.
We've got more chance of shagging the pope. The only way Sterling comes here is if he wants to play for us alone and runs down his contract. Even then the abuse would be ridiculous. He's more likely to want a bidding war over him if recent developments are anything to go by.
Do Qpr have a sell on clause in place should he be sold?
Didnt watch Liverpool for ages.
How is his season going? All the buzz from last year seems fading away.
How is his season going? All the buzz from last year seems fading away.
Even if we dont sign him, the fact that weve shown interest will be enough to piss of liverpool fans. They are already having a go at him on twitter / instagram and saying hes useless and Ibe is better than him.
Been a bit of a mixed season for him really. He seems to be played mainly either as a CF or as right wingback, neither of which are his best positions
When he has played out wide or as a #10 he has looked good though.
Let's put a bid for Ibe as well just to properly piss them off
He still runs like a little girl.
He's getting a lot of abuse for a fella who hasn't done a whole lot wrong.
He's not turned down a load of money, he's just refused to discuss a new contract til the end of the season.
To me, that's just a fella who wants to see if his team is likely to be playing Champions League before he commits to anything.
That's just smart. Footballers have a short career and the best want to play at the top.
We all mock Gerrard for his failure to achieve so why shouldn't Sterling look out for himself?
It's different if you're a youngster at United, Chelsea, Barca, Real or even City. You know you've a decent shout of success.
What reason would a youngster at Liverpool have to stay loyal with a realistic belief in achieving anything?
I'd love him at United. Not because I think he'd be better than Ronaldo, Bale, Reus or even what we have.
But because it would knock Liverpool right out of the park their perch once stood in.
He's not turned down a load of money, he's just refused to discuss a new contract til the end of the season.
To me, that's just a fella who wants to see if his team is likely to be playing Champions League before he commits to anything.
That's just smart. Footballers have a short career and the best want to play at the top.
We all mock Gerrard for his failure to achieve so why shouldn't Sterling look out for himself?
It's different if you're a youngster at United, Chelsea, Barca, Real or even City. You know you've a decent shout of success.
What reason would a youngster at Liverpool have to stay loyal with a realistic belief in achieving anything?
I'd love him at United. Not because I think he'd be better than Ronaldo, Bale, Reus or even what we have.
But because it would knock Liverpool right out of the park their perch once stood in.
I agree with that, especially as most clubs dont have loyalty to players and will sell them on just like that. Players doing the same will happen and im sure most people abusing him would do the exact same thing.
Its his career and he has every right to make his own decision (right or wrong) and live by it.
Its his career and he has every right to make his own decision (right or wrong) and live by it.
overrated twat.... never really seen what the big deal is with him.... too small, fragile and weak. He'd be better in spain probably ....
Is Rodgers the right manager for him, or does he need a change of scene?
Like Janujaz then.
It's amazing how Danny Welbeck was patted on the back for his "courage" in leaving United for the betterment of his career by seeking out roughly the same role at Arsenal. Yet Sterling having ambition and not wanting to tie himself to a contract that would take him into his mid 20's with a club yet to re-establish itself as regular CL team somehow makes him the bad guy.
It's amazing how you still feel Danny Welbeck "sought out" a "similar role" at Arsenal and is the "bad guy" for doing so when you couldn't find him a place in the starting XI. You chose to stick with an ageing RVP who's been dire this season and a crocked Falcao, another flop. Your manager made his choices and Welbeck left because he couldn't see a way into the team ahead of all these players. He's a regular starter for us and that's the only way he'll improve as a player. Sterling is a starter at Liverpool, which is why he's this supposed "bad guy" for trying to show that he's too big for the club.
There are two certainties in life. The earth is round, and Liverpool will never sell Sterling to Manchester United.
But he could go on a free transfer to us in 2016. I've read that he is a United fan, but then again I have read that he has 29,5 kids with 56 different women.
But he could go on a free transfer to us in 2016. I've read that he is a United fan, but then again I have read that he has 29,5 kids with 56 different women.
Sterling is a starter at Liverpool, which is why he's this supposed "bad guy" for trying to show that he's too big for the club.
The role he has for you is the same one he had here, he's not playing as a #9 (which is what he said he wanted) now Giroud is fit and isn't a guaranteed starter when all your wide options are fit, and as far as getting better, he's still about as prolific as Halley's comet. However please point to where I said Danny was a bad guy? I wasn't remotely bothered that he left and bare him no grudge, I was simply pointing out the hypocrisy in the media of saluting Welbeck while crucifying Sterling for wanting more for his career.
Who does ancelotti manage then?
I don't know how Henry thinks about rivalry but i can't see the majority of the Liverpool board members would agree to sell him to us.
On the one side i would really hate to sign a player from Liverpool and give them a lot of money. Something special must be at Anfield that i would change my mind about that.
But that's the case i think Sterling is really special, english (For me that's important too) and would be brilliant in our 4-3-3 system.
We must sign a new top top winger/wide forward next season and if there's really a chance to get him then we should go for him.
Shouldn't have assumed that you were unhappy with the way he left your club. Eh. Anyway, I think the media has been fair towards both players. The likes of Sterling and Walcott are listening to some poor advisors. Sterling can improve a lot where he is, while Welbeck had clearly begun stalling.
I agree Welbeck could score more goals, but not about his "same role" for us. He played three months as a central striker when Giroud was injured and did the job well. I think part of the reason for Giroud's improvement is that Welbeck competes for his place.
Also Welbeck is our starter when all wide players are fit. Him and Ox are competing for one spot and at the moment Welbeck is ahead of him in the pecking order.
Do we need to have the same Welbeck discussion here as well?
The media are assuming they know what is going on behind the scenes with Sterling and Liverpool and they don't actually know, maybe he feels things are not really progressing and in fact they have regressed from last season, and maybe he doesn't have a good relationship with Rodgers. Yet he is painted as if he should just accept the offer and sign his career to Liverpool for the next 5 years, when he can basically play another year and then go where he wants if they choose to play hardball with him.
He played centrally for us as well though when our better options were out in fairness, the reason he can't get the role at your club and couldn't get it at United is that he's a poor finisher most of the time, if he'd stayed here he'd have been able to compete for one of the wide roles in the front 3 IMO as Young, Di Maria and Januzaj don't offer much in the way of goals either.
I'll bow to your knowledge of your own team there mate, it just seemed to me like when Ozil/Walcott/Sanchez/Ox/Ramsey/Wilshire/Carzola were all fit he'd not be a guaranteed starter in Wenger's team shape.
Would you want us to have a real go at getting sterling if it meant losing out on depay?
Considering he still has 2 years left on his deal, don't think running down his contract is going to be an option at all. Far too long a period of constant speculation of his next club which wouldn't help him either him or Liverpool. Liverpool will either sell him this summer (which would rule us out) or Sterling will sign a contract with a big release clause. And given what happened to Suarez, I'm sure Sterling's agent will ensure the release clause is legally binding. In which case, we might have a small chance of nabbing him.
Sterling is twice the the player, so yeah.
Sterling is twice the the player, so yeah.
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