What has he done that I should rate? I think he has good potential but 1. you talk about his potential because he has actually done **** all in his career 2. his full potential will depend on a move away from Everton
Whats sterling done that we should rate? Seeing as you need a list pf what barkley has done i feel we need one to show what sterling has done. Tye answer is very little from both. As they are kids at the start of their careers.
Try being a normal football fan for once by taking your eyes off the stat sheets and watching him play football.
You thought Stones was s**te, so your view has absolutely zero credibility. and is of even less interest. Plus, they're totally different players you clueless dolt, so a black and white comparison is a total nonsense anyway.
Helped a flagging Liverpool side that wasn't expected to better fifth (if that) by being a key figure towards a title challenge and second place finish? #justathought
Does anyone doubt that barkley wont be the better of tyebtwo? Its unlikely isnt it? English wingers fade to fucl all but tye midfielders tend to turn out ol. Someone mentioned raheems prototype already.
I'd have Barklay at Anfield in a heartbeat. We're missing the point though about all this young talent, and it was a point reinforced by Owen too - we're overplayed this young talent, and we'll see them burned out by mid-twenties at the latest unless we do something. I posted the link from that Dutch sports-physiologist some of you are referring to yesterday. Woy is simply not to be trusted with this young talent - it's like putting Albert Steptoe in charge of a top racehorse and then watching him put that horse in tandem with Hercules to pull his scrap cart. We as a club are overplaying Stirling for sure (a lot more than Madrid would, and that'll surely be playing on his mind). Part of that is down to Studge's Woy-inflicted injury (ffs UIR, Sterling can play anywhere in attack, midfield and even right-back - different positions my arse), and part of it is that, for whatever reason, Liverpool have not replaced Suarez either like-for-like, or even with two or three top quality forwards. Balottelli and Lambert will only be impact subs and cup fillers at best, and Markovic isn't as good as Borini, let alone Suzo or Ibe. With that in mind I say again - why does Woy need to be playing fatigued young players in this group against anyone bar Switzerland? Do we really want to apply the Claridge solution of keeping young players fresh from club football so that they can star against San Marino and Estonia?
donga - I think all this talk of overplaying youngsters is absolute bollocks personally. What knackered the likes of Owen et al, wasn't playing too many games when he was young. It was playing too many games when not fully fit, aggrevating injuries, playing with painkilling injections etc - See Torres for further details.
The fact that you refer to Sterling as the archetypal winger shows a) you don't watch Liverpool enough, or b) you're a clueless, uneducated football fan. Sterling has far more to his game than just another typical winger, as proven by his best performances coming as the number 10. Again, you clearly didn't watch Liverpool enough because you would have noticed Sterling was our best player in the last 2-3 months of last season when Suarez faded. Being a pivotal part of a 3 man attack which scored over 100 goals is a pretty big achievement in my book. ------------------------------------- Barkley is a fantastic talent, would love him at the Liverpool - if he develops his defensive side a bit more then he could be worldie in every aspect. However, I rate Stones even more - think he and Callum Chambers are England's best young defenders and hope they continue to progress.
sorry I wasn't clear, but that is what I mean. If a player is fatigued, by being either overplayed or overtrained, chronic injuries are more likely. I was a carthorse of a middle-distance/cross-country runner for the Harriers back in the 80's around the same age as barklay and Sterling. I admit, as athletes go the comparison is tenuous, but more than 50/60 miles a week or two races a week and, even at that age, I was ****ed. I still have dodgy hamstrings and ankles to this day. back in the 70's footballers took cortisone injections to overcome stress-related muscle injuries, and you can see from the likes of Tommy Smith the long term effects of that strategy. I worked a train a decade back that Eddie Gray was on. He stood for an hour, even though it was empty, and when I got chatting to him he explained that he finds it excruciating to sit down nowadays, and can only drive or be passenger in a car for very short distances. There is a price to pay for overtraining and playing too many competitive games Tobes, especially for quick players. Not everyone is naturally like Colin Bell, Alan ball or Ian Callaghan (and Cally lost all his cartlidges during his career, remember). The whole point of having bigger squads nowadays if to extend the effectiveness of players like Sterling and Studge by rotation, especially the pace and endurance most players go through in a competitive game nowadays (most people couldn't run 12/13 kms in a straight line in 90 mins, let alone while twisting and turning, sprinting and jumping AND tired muscles in contact with other players limbs and suchlike - can you imagine going for a half hour run with someone kicking a shoving you?). You simply cannot compare it to playing five-a-side with your mates at Bebbington on a Thursday night - the modrn footballer is an athlete of almost Olympian fitness, but they're expected to perform twice a week for ten months of the year - something track and field athletes or marathon runners wouldn't touch. Trust this Dutch physiologist. believe me, he knows his stuff.
