Just been reading that he was booed at Liverpool's end of season dinner tonight. I also read that Beaky Thompson thinks he's greedy. Reinforces to me how very bitter scouse ****s are.
Was reading a story today where it was suggested that Sterling thinks that 'Liverpool have failed to protect him from negative headlines' - the mind boggles. Brendan Rogers didn't supply him with the balloon helium or get him to make inappropriate interviews. Just another spoilt brat who has a bit of talent but won't properly fulfill it.
Sterling's agent sounds a right cock... “I don’t care about the PR of the club and the club situation. I don’t care. “He is definitely not signing. He’s not signing for £700, £800, £900 thousand a week. He is not signing. “My job is to make sure I do the best with them (my clients). If people say I am bad at my job, or they are badly advised it does not matter.” “Carragher is a knob. Everybody knows it. Any of the criticism from current pundits or ex-Liverpool players - none of them things matter to me. It is not relevant.” “I am not worried. Worried is making a decision not knowing what is going to happen. Every premier league club will make a bid for him.” http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...k-would-not-keep-him-at-anfield-10266233.html
His agent would have more respect if he simply said "Look, the PL has just signed the biggest TV deal in it's history. Players wages will be going up and it's only right that my client has his fair share of the cake, and that I also have my share. **** Liverpool, **** what's best for the player. We want our share".
Sterling's agent claims that he didn't say the things quoted in the Evening Standard and is considering legal action.
I see John Aldridge was having a go about him leaving Liverpool. I don't seem to recall him having similar opinions when he left Oxford to play for the bin-dippers...
I don't see why he's being criticized, the lad has loftier ambitions than finishing in the Europa league places every year. A move to one of the foreign giants wouldn't be a bad idea for him either. Although he wouldn't be 1st choice based on his performances this year, if he can repeat last year's form he definitely would.
It's just standard scouse driven victimisation. He doesn't want to stay there because he wants to play for a big club that wins stuff. Good for him having aspirations. Because the bindippers can't understand why anyone wouldn't want to play for them, and anyone actually wanting to leave, they go in all hurt and offended. As a club they have a lot of money but at the end of the day, you can't buy class.
Some football fans (and Liverpool seem to have much more than their fair share) take the view that any player leaving their beloved club, for money, glory or whatever reason, is guilty of the worst kind of treason. The same does not apply if the player is moving in the opposite direction. Hypocrisy is always ugly.
It's a valid point. Did they criticise Lallana, Lovren and the like for doing exactly the same thing?
Ask Adam Johnson and Jack Rodwell how it went for them. Sterling couldn't get a starting spot in any of the sides capable of wining trophies, I don't think its greed its just delusion of his own ability.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/19/its-just-the-way-it-works As we all know, Liverpool Football Club is special. Different. Classy. Unique. Special. Unique. Classy. Unique. Iconic. Unique. Special. Unique. Clubby. Clubbish. Clubesque. Special. Unique. Increasingly irrelevant. Over the hill. Past-it. Yesterday’s news. Special. Unique. Iconic. Unique. Special. Special. Special. Unique. Liverpool Football Club are special. And unique. And special. And classy. They’re special and specially unique and uniquely specially and specially special and uniquely classy and they have a different way of doing things, you wouldn’t understand, you just wouldn’t, because you’re not special, or classy, or unique, you’re not Liverpool Football Club, and you wouldn’t understand, so don’t even bother, just accept it, they’re the best football team in the tra-la-la-la land. Liverpool Football Club’s specialness and uniqueness and classiness naturally places them in a position to pat lesser clubs on the head and let them know of their place in the food chain. Clubs, say, like Southampton, who were browbeaten into selling Adam Lallana and Dejan Lovren to mighty Liverpool last summer. “They have a choice as a club,” Liverpool’s head guru, Brendan Rodgers, roared last August. “They don’t have to sell. You have a choice. Maybe Southampton’s objectives have changed. They were looking to be a [Big Cup] club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change. There might be one or two others who leave. It’s just the way it works.” It’s. Just. The. Way. It. Works. Words to live by. Poetry in motion that comes to mind now that Raheem Sterling is busy letting Liverpool know that the way it works is that he would like to leave in the summer, maybe join a bigger club, play for a team who actually have a chance of winning something in the near future, that there’s only so many times he can hear about the Miraculous Miracle of Istanbul before he’s forced to go all Van Gogh on his ears. Treason! Naturally Sterling’s desire to play for a good team has been met with fury and The Fiver assumes he has spent the day locked in Melwood’s Re-education Chamber, a crack team of Phil Thompson, John Bishop and John Aldridge taking it in turns to hammer home the uniqueness and specialness and classiness of Liverpool Football Club, making sure Sterling knows that he will forever walk alone if he joins Manchester City, a terrifying prospect indeed. It’s just the way it works.
For me there's 2 different elements to this issue: 1) Sterling is nowhere near as good as he thinks he is and the notion that he can play for a 'top' club is frankly laughable. 2) That aside, the attitude of Liverpool and its fans to Sterling's delusion is just as ridiculous. As the article above states, they have no problem when the (football) boot is on the other foot.
Lallana and Lovren didn't turn down £100k a week and demand to be sold, they were simply subject to offers that their club accepted. Liverpool have now withdrawn the new contract offer, it will be ****ing hilarious if no-one comes in for him.
'There is even suggestions Lallana told the club he would never play for them again as he looked to seal his move to Merseyside in as smooth a manner as possible for him and his new team. This is a sad end to what had been a great relationship between a player, who worked his way up from the youth team to the first team to being captain and gaining England recognition via seasons in the lower leagues to his PFA player of the year nominated campaign last time out, and the fans who have backed him since day one.' http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/02/adam-...ampton-after-liverpool-transfer-move-4783937/
1. Liverpool aren't progressing and are constantly taking one step forward and three steps back. 2. Liverpool fans are possibly some of the most annoying fans in world football and in my opinion the most annoying in English football. Have an incredible sense of entitlement and an overinflated sense importance and believe they should win everything. Desperatley clinging on to past glories of yonder year. 3. Gerrard gone. Suraez gone and Coutiniho and Henderson the only other credible top quality players in their team. The club are not making the forward steps they need to be making and seem to be moving backwards. 4. Liverpoool don't have the draw they or their fans think they have. Just because they have a dedicated group of fans it doesn't mean that signing for them or staying with them is means anything. Signing for Real Madrid, Barcelona, Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Juventus actually means something. It means something because all of these teams can challenege for all major honors and have the finacial clout to attract the best players. 5. Sterling wanted to move because he wanted to win things in a team that has an amazing infrustructure (arguably the best in the world) and a great long term ethos. They have top quality world players and the chances of them signing more now and over the coming years is high. I don't know how this makes him greedy. I just think it makes ambitious and it makes some people who think otherwise bitter. 6. Sterling a year ago is one of the hottest prospects in English football and a year later that still stands. Liverpool fans are bitter and have turned on him and made him the scapegoat for their anger and realisation that they aren't the club they once was and their rivials are a better prospect. Nothing has changed in that year apart from Sterling's realisation of Liverpools stagnation and the fans turning on him. Sterling is in no control of the inflated transfer fee and it is more a sign of the times than a direct problem with Sterling. Nor has he any control over the money he is offered. Sterling has the option to play with top quality world players, who compete for all major championships, who are taking steps forward, have a bright future, have one the league twice in recent years and gets offered more money for doing so. People are misdirecting their anger at the wrong person and should be aiming it at clubs like Man City. Truth is Liverpool are finding it a difficult pill to swallow when they are getting the same treatment that they have been giving to teams for years and years. Ahem ... Southampton
