That can change in football very quickly if resolved quickly. Similar situations with Rooney 2nd transfer request made many United fans finished with him, the booing, the house call out.. Tevez returning after his awol golf stint in 2011-12.
Raheem Sterling | Signs for Man City for £49,000,000
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That can change in football very quickly if resolved quickly. Similar situations with Rooney 2nd transfer request made many United fans finished with him, the booing, the house call out.. Tevez returning after his awol golf stint in 2011-12.
Well not really. FSG have come in and said to the agent we are not going to meet you after all. See what happens next.
Yeehaw John Henry, way to go.
They booed Rooney? - jeez that's just terrible you know (maybe because he is a scouser?)
oh hang on they chucked a load of cash at him and then he decided to stay after all....
Yep. The bottom line is increasingly what matters to those involved in pro football, and the rest (fan outrage, integrity etc etc) is just background noise that is often ignored.
He's going, that much is clear.
£100k is a very good wage offer though, I doubt many teams will offer much more than that (I think it is around the average wage of a City player, and they are all well established players).
He has to have been offered an opportunity somewhere and had his head turned by that
He has to have been offered an opportunity somewhere and had his head turned by that
Rodgers showed his naivety by saying he's the best young player in Europe. Fergie would only ever say something like "Yes, he had a very good game today" or something like that, not wank on about how great someone was. He never let someone get too big for their boots and when they did he fecked them off pretty quick.
Sterling has been built up and probably now believes he is the next Messi or whatever. £100k is about right for him as crazy as that sounds for a 20 year old.
I don't blame him for wanting to leave at this point, the club leaking that he refused a £100k a week contract is bang out of order and completely amateurish. This could all have been handled very differently, but at least its good entertainment for the last week of the season and no doubt the summer too
Sterling has been built up and probably now believes he is the next Messi or whatever. £100k is about right for him as crazy as that sounds for a 20 year old.
I don't blame him for wanting to leave at this point, the club leaking that he refused a £100k a week contract is bang out of order and completely amateurish. This could all have been handled very differently, but at least its good entertainment for the last week of the season and no doubt the summer too
There's talk of City offering Milner something stupid like £150,000 a week so I can definitely see them offering something high to Sterling.
For once I have got to agree with the scousers, he's better off staying with them for the next year or two as he needs to be starting every game. If he leaves for someone like City he will end up on bench and fade away.
RAWK creaming themselves now. Celebrating the fact that their club will basically hold an unhappy player who wants to leave hostage. "Let him rot in the reserves!"
I'm sure this will be good for future signings of the club.
I'm sure this will be good for future signings of the club.
He'd start a lot of games at Arsenal. Would Januzaj be better off signing for Liverpool?
Maybe so, but I'm not convinced that Sterling's best interests are what matters most to Liverpool; their priority is the club, after all.
Latest say Liverpool have canceled the meeting scheduled between them? this is actually becoming pretty damn amusing now.
It's about standing up and telling the agent where to go - which really is what many football fans would want clubs to do.
Got to respect the agent for this.
I agreed with every bit other than 100k not being a lowball offer. We'l know anyways once he moves. I doubt he'l get anything above 125k even if he moved to City. It isnt about the money, its about Pool not being good enough.
But we all know that this won't happen....... Morals are all very nice, but not when it costs you £40m.
All true but the current level Sterling is at, doesnt merit wages above 100k, nothing to do with his age.
Never thought of it that way. The situations are actually pretty similar what with the overrated English player wanting to leave and questioning the ambition of the club with a cnut of an agent, to boot.They booed Rooney? - jeez that's just terrible you know (maybe because he is a scouser?)
oh hang on they chucked a load of cash at him and then he decided to stay after all....
From the next Messi and the savior of LFC to complete cnut and not all that good anyway and he can rot in the reserves unless we get £50 million for him (the absolute minimum for a complete cnut these days it seems) in 12 months.
Only at LFC.
Rawk must be on the verge of what ever the forum equivalent of total protonic reversal from Ghostbusters is, let alone meltdown.
Only at LFC.
Rawk must be on the verge of what ever the forum equivalent of total protonic reversal from Ghostbusters is, let alone meltdown.
It also makes your club look small time. Refusing to let an unhappy player leave which may actually be beneficial to you in the long run.
If a Chelsea/City/Arsenal/United player was this unhappy and wanted out they'd be allowed to leave. The club would seek an appropriate fee and immediately begin trying to reinvest the money.
So when Rooney wanted out - there were not similar calls from United fans then?
Arsenal are the only team where Sterling wouldn't be guaranteed to start. And maybe Chelsea given Mourinho's style.
I think the meeting's been called off because the situation is untenable now and you'l sell to the highest bidder bar the rivals. Just how it was always going to end.
!00%
We can't keep losing our best players, and if the agent and player are playing games the club (who have a player under contract they do not wish to sell), are perfectly within their reasoning to stand firm.
That doesn't mean he won't still be sold though!
Loving this. Means there's at least one summer saga worth getting the popcorn out for.
Either way he's a gobshite.
Were there?
The bench recognizes your right to produce any evidence that you wish to put forward.
You are telling me there were not United fans on here giving Rooney stick for wanting to leave (for a 2nd time)?
No I have no evidence but I can't believe he wasn't getting some flak.
EDIT - didn't they boo him on the celebration bus after winning the league!?
Yep, definitely. Safest bet going. I find this whole situation hilarious for a number of reasons. Mainly the complete lack of legitimate reasons that ex-Liverpool pundits can give for him to actually sign a new deal. Instead they'll just call him names.
You even had Heskey chiming in, calling him "immature". The same Heskey who left Leicester for a bigger club at 22.
I don't particularly care for Sterling, or want him at United, but this situation just highlights how Liverpool, their fans, and the media are unwilling to accept that they're not a top dog in England any more.
The 1st time I was devastated.
2nd time I did want him to go as I was fed up of it by then - and I do believe if SAF had not retired, he would have been sold.
Got booed at the bus parade and all you could hear when he went to pick up his medal was "you scouse bastard" so yeah they're both similar situations.
You're going to continue losing your best players until the people running the club decide to play with the big boys and pay proper wages and transfer fees. Liverpool show no true ambition.
Players like Suarez and Sterling will see their friends at clubs that not only pay far more than Liverpool do but they also win trophies and show ambition in the market. Sterling gets slaughtered for wanting to better his situation.
Jesus, Rawk want Chelsea to offer Oscar plus cash.
As if.
As if.
Oscar will fit in well to Klopp's new-look Liverpool attack next season.Jesus, Rawk want Chelsea to offer Oscar plus cash.
As if.
Jesus, Rawk want Chelsea to offer Oscar plus cash.
As if.
They want Sanchez if Arsenal are interested. We would do well to stay away lest they come after our stars..
Jesus, Rawk want Chelsea to offer Oscar plus cash.
As if.
I'll have some of what they're smoking please!
It's pretty fun this, will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
That's just paper talk, but even if it's true, Milner has been at City for some years and contributed a lot to the club and is approaching the end of his peak years. What City offer him will be reflective of that, and it can by no means be used as a yardstick to measure what City may or may not be willing to pay Sterling.
Nothing gets as high a post-rate than a thread where Liverpool fall apart. God bless the Caf.
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