Raheem Sterling | Signs for Man City for £49,000,000

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dinners85 said:
I see it from Sterling's point of view but also from Liverpool's.

How often do we hear that a contract isn't worth the paper it's written on and read the debates over over whether the club or player holds holds the cards ?

Football is an odd one.

What other industry are employees 'bought' by one company from another ?

Shouldn't a footballer be allowed to simply resign ?

Some want to abolish 'transfer fees' but how else would the money filter down through the lower leagues.

It's a tough one and the Sterling case is hardly unique.
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I was thinking about this yesterday.

Most normal people have one, three or even six month contracts. That's to say that they have to give that much notice if they wish to leave their job, or their employer has to give them that much notice if they want to get rid of them.

Footballers sign contracts over a period of years, not months, which is why they can't simply resign. If you think about it, when players run their contract down, they are effectively working a notice period and then buggering off elsewhere for free - a bit like normal people.

The exorbitant transfer fees we see are instead of notice periods, because no footballer or buying club wants to wait for two or three years for the moving player to simply resign!
 
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Brendan Rodgers: "Sterling has two years left on his contract and I expect him to see those through."

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"I'm sure talks will take place over the summer. I don't see Raheem as being unhappy."
 

Brendan Rodgers on Sterling: "Raheem has two years left on his deal and I expect him to see that through. For me it's quite simple."


Rodgers: "I don't see Raheem being unhappy. In sure talks will place over the course of the summer."


Rodgers: "Raheem will be available for selection. My relationship with him hasn't been affected at all."
 
Brilliant stuff again from Brentan.

"The facts are simple. Raheem has two years left on his deal at Liverpool and I expect him to see the two years through and continue to behave as immaculately has he has done since he came to the club."
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Nothing like a sarchy comment to get him signing quick-sharp!
 
"We like to do things internally, as privately as possibly can be"

He must be on a wind up saying that when the club leaked the fact that Sterling won't sign for £100k pw. Someone compared Rodgers to David Brent and its a very accurate comparison. Although Rodgers is a bigger twat, he does have whiter teeth.
 
If a good man comes to me, and says thank you David, for the opportunity and continued support in the work-related arena, but I've done that, I wanna better myself, I wanna move on, then I can make that dream come true, to, AKA, for you.

Puts feet up on desk........
 
I'm sure it's been said a million times already in this thread, but I haven't been following it so I'll say my piece anyway.

If you come to the club's annual awards ceremony to pick up the young player of the year award and your own fans boo you, followed by a tirade of abuse from the great & the good (I use the terms metaphorically you understand) of the Scouse, then I'd be off too.
 
YouOnlyLiveTwice said:

Rodgers: "Raheem will be available for selection. My relationship with him hasn't been affected at all."
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That would be a terrible idea. There's going to be riots on the streets of Liverpool if Sterling plays in the next match, especially if he puts as little effort in as he has been recently. Be hard for that lot to put their trust back in Brentan if he keeps rewarding more play time to a player who is showing no desire at all to be there, just because he's a good player.
 
vodrake said:
That would be a terrible idea. There's going to be riots on the streets of Liverpool if Sterling plays in the next match, especially if he puts as little effort in as he has been recently. Be hard for that lot to put their trust back in Brentan if he keeps rewarding more play time to a player who is showing no desire at all to be there, just because he's a good player.
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They are going to finish 5th regardless of who they have out there on Sunday.
 
Get out now Sterling before it's too late...

...rather than in 10 years time when you haven't won a league title, the fans still talking about how big a club they are, scraping into Europe every odd year. And getting a squad number trophy at the end of it all.

Run. Quickly.
 
Ananke said:
Get out now Sterling before it's too late...

...rather than in 10 years time when you haven't won a league title, the fans still talking about how big a club they are, scraping into Europe every odd year. And getting a squad number trophy at the end of it all.

Run. Quickly.
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Flying_Heckfish said:
He is the Iraqi information minister and I claim my £5
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vodrake said:
That would be a terrible idea. There's going to be riots on the streets of Liverpool if Sterling plays in the next match, especially if he puts as little effort in as he has been recently. Be hard for that lot to put their trust back in Brentan if he keeps rewarding more play time to a player who is showing no desire at all to be there, just because he's a good player.
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I think it's a good idea, he'd get booed the whole game, it'd be awful for him.
 
Why is Brendan wearing a skin tight UnderArmour shirt? :lol:
 
Sassy Colin said:
They still have a chance of 7th actually.
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If

a) Southampton win
b) Spurs win
c) Liverpool lose
d) Arsenal lose the FA Cup final

then Liverpool will finish 7th & probably qualify for the Europa League via the Fair Play table, meaning their season would start in July. That would be a laugh. The (very) outside possibility will keep the weekend's games interesting for a while. Right up until City bang four past Southampton probably.
 
The Purley King said:
If a good man comes to me, and says thank you David, for the opportunity and continued support in the work-related arena, but I've done that, I wanna better myself, I wanna move on, then I can make that dream come true, to, AKA, for you.

Puts feet up on desk........
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:lol:
 
Carragher did behave like an idiot on TV saying ridiculous things like "shut up, get your head down and play football". His whole stance was "how can he want to go?! Just play football la"
 
bishblaize said:
If

a) Southampton win
b) Spurs win
c) Liverpool lose
d) Arsenal lose the FA Cup final

then Liverpool will finish 7th & probably qualify for the Europa League via the Fair Play table, meaning their season would start in July. That would be a laugh. The (very) outside possibility will keep the weekend's games interesting for a while. Right up until City bang four past Southampton probably.
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Spurs won't win anyway, they gave up a long time ago.
 
amolbhatia100 said:
Carragher did behave like an idiot on TV saying ridiculous things like "shut up, get your head down and play football". His whole stance was "how can he want to go?! Just play football la"
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It is unquestionable that Liverpool have acted with arrogance in this whole affair.

It is easy to paint Sterling as the villain, the greedy young millionaire wanting to further enrich himself. The reality is that he can earn much more elsewhere, play for a bigger club and challenge for major honours. Rodgers seemed to think that Southampton players should jump at the chance to play for Liverpool, well here is Sterling taking his chance for bigger and better things.
 
Classical Mechanic said:
It is unquestionable that Liverpool have acted with arrogance in this whole affair.

It is easy to paint Sterling as the villain, the greedy young millionaire wanting to further enrich himself. The reality is that he can earn much more elsewhere, play for a bigger club and challenge for major honours. Rodgers seemed to think that Southampton players should jump at the chance to play for Liverpool, well here is Sterling taking his chance for bigger and better things.
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A lot of people connected to Liverpool (media, pundits, fans...) seem unwilling to accept that they're not actually a top dog, and their future doesn't look particularly success-filled, when compared to the clubs above them.

That's why you get people mentioning Klopp and Oscar joining Liverpool. I'm not sure if they actually know, but refuse to admit it, or if they're actually deluded.
 
Would love him at United even if I think he'd take a long time to get used to playing as a proper winger with restricted tactical freedom. He's just too much of a talent to not go all in for if he's available.
 
The way they have grandstanded over Suarez and now Sterling is really going to put players off going there.

Yes, they might get a pay day through going there from a smaller club, but they are going to be hamstrung moving on from them, and its going to prove a real issue getting top young talent to sign if they know they are not going to able to move to progress their careers elsewhere.
 
Classical Mechanic said:
It is unquestionable that Liverpool have acted with arrogance in this whole affair.

It is easy to paint Sterling as the villain, the greedy young millionaire wanting to further enrich himself. The reality is that he can earn much more elsewhere, play for a bigger club and challenge for major honours. Rodgers seemed to think that Southampton players should jump at the chance to play for Liverpool, well here is Sterling taking his chance for bigger and better things.
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I understand them feeling a bit annoyed. It always is when a player develops with you into something special or on the brink thereof. But they're being typically pretentious and over the top in their response. Carragher's rant was a bit embarrassing really.

At the end of the day sterling's stock is higher relatively to where his club currently stands. He's almost their best player at 20 and definitely the one with the most potential. They aren't even in the champions league. All the big talk is fine but they'll have to sell, whether this summer or next.
 
Fair play to Liverpoo, they are playing this fairly well.

I can see why Sterling would want to leave but he is going about this in the wrong way.
 
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