Latest press rumour. Hopefully BR will tell them where to go. I think we should accept Walcott, Wiltshire, Podolski and £50m for Sterling if Wenger offers it. After all this is the man who only offered £3m for Ibrahimovic and when this failed paid £8m for Francis Jeffers !
If Sterling signs his long term deal on his 18th birthday in a few weeks, then Wengers got no chance, if he stalls then I'd start to get worried if I was a kopite. Personally I think the lad will agree a deal & stay, but you worry about what agents are whispering in his ear, particularly given he's from the smoke.
Can't see this happening to be fair. Do we really want to lose one of our promising prospects who is yet to turn 18, for a player who seems to believe that the defenders are mirages that he can just stroll through and £8m? Walcott was an exciting prospect, then he joined Arsenal and has been a wasted opportunity.
The only way I can see Sterling not signing with us is if he wants to return to London for family reasons and because he seems to have made a bit of a mess of his private life already and he is only 18. Three kids by two girls at his age is only going to be hassle. Yes he can afford to support them but he may want a fresh start.
I might be interested if Arsenal were offering their player and WalMart. Then we would have yet another bench warmer but more importantly we could put the Scum into liquidation
It is rumoured that Wenger wants £8-12million for Walcott depending on where your reading it. This suggests he rates Sterling at £16-20million.
I have to say I am really surprised that Morgan has not been given a real shout, every time i have seen him he has seemed like a natural goalscorer. He could not have done much worse than our other CFs, Suarez excluded. I would also like to see Gerrard either moved back or possibly forward and let Allen and Lucas do the leg work once fit. If we talking about bringing in what about looking at Austin from Burnley boy been doing well, they had good record of forwards recently, Fletcher from them as is Rodriguez might be worth a cheeky punt? Agree with any of the names mentioned above also Guess I would just like to see anyone brought in (owen excluded cause we ruined him apparently)
Talking about Owen and getting ruined: Liverpool: 216 apps, 118 goals Real Madrid: 36 apps, 13 goals Newcastle: 71 apps, 26 goals Man Utd: 31 apps, 5 goals Clearly Liverpool ruined him which begs the question, why would Fergie sign him if he was "ruined"?
Sorry read it on bbc site somewhere, but I am mainly being a bit sarcastic as dont really take anything fergie is supposed to have said too seriously, hes a douche. Hate to say it, a great manager but zero class in his body even when he is magnanimous it is only to fuel his own agenda imho.
This story is bull, but i'm sure we are interested in Walcott, who has been good today and just scored. I would have him, always do with the extra pace.
Offer them £5mil in January, see how it goes and if things still don't progress then could pick him up for free in January. The guy scores goals, no matter how you look at it. Yes, sometimes he's a headless chicken, runs into players, final ball isn't always great but I'm sure if you looked at goals & assists in the Premiership over the last 3-4 years he'd be up there. At 23 he's got his best years ahead of him as well. Wallcot Suarez Sterling as a front 3 with Suso just behind them
I put games per goal ratio in square brackets for ease of comparison. Looks like a two-step deterioration in form. We played Owen all the time, whereas, after us, he was never given the same amount of games -- due to injury, mostly. Real almost always seem to use him as an impact sub, for instance. Most players like Owen -- who's goal scoring ability mostly stemmed from their short distance acceleration -- are highly injury prone. (I always put Brazilian Ronaldo in this camp, too, though he admitedly had more strings to his bow than Owen!) Acceleration produces the greatest strain on muscles and tendons. It looks largely like Owen's deterioration was due to age, the type of player he was and his inability to adapt his game after injury had ravaged him. That's my opinion on it, anyway. It seems a little harsh if people are suggesting that the majority of the blame for it lies with LFC, though.
