I was gutted when Liverpool sneaked in and stole him from us before we could ever see him in the hoops, but seeing him in the last two games I think we lucked out, especially with those idiots at City paying over the odds and our sell on fee! He is actually really starting to remind me of SWP, lots of pace but zero end product, all he seems to do is run into people and lose the ball or miss kick it and lose the ball!
Yes, I pointed out he was morphing into SWP last week, it seems that City have actually been sold a pup and we made £10 million out of it. Shame we've wasted it on some more duds...
I actually feel a bit sorry for him. The huge transfer fee and his lack of intelligence have combined to make him public enemy No1. He has a lot of talent imo and when he was playing well for England and Liverpool there was no talk of him lacking an end product. He was fast, direct, making things happen and scoring goals. Now he has obviously lost all confidence and gets hammered by the fans at the ground and on forums like this. He may never recover his form with all this hatred hurled towards him. Once the public have a hate figure they simply don't let it go. With Welbeck out, England need pace, which Sterling has a lot of. However, I feel the best thing to do now is to take him out of the firing line and start Sturridge in his place on Monday (in fact, Sturridge would probably start on the right and Lallana would swap to the left). He's young and I wish people would lay off him a bit.
Sturridge and Vardy should definitely start next game, if Sterling gets any more game time it should be last 10 minutes or so to run at tired defenders. Rangercol I see what you're saying but swp was once held in high regard and look how he ended up, my guess is he's probably regretting his City move by now as his lack of game time has clearly effected him!
I suspect he will come good when he is under the tutelage of Pep Guardiola who can coach him. By contrast Manuel Pellegrini is more of a manager than a coach; so he may well kick on over the coming season.
https://crowdfunding.justgiving.com/BringRaheemHome?utm_id=108&utm_term=pMGGzAZD3 Good ol' British humour!
I agree, it's unnecessary, but it's fair to say that he is offering nothing. When Liverpool beat us 3-2 at home a couple of years ago, he was devastating, and how we could do with that now, but he's off the boil and cannot start the next game.
Feeling guilty now! It's the problem.of the results driven industry that footie has become. I'm afraid we're no better at LR. Every year there seems to be a player that most are down on. Henry last year.
Cheers. I'm in Paris for grandson's 1st birthday. Getting off the Eurostar (2 hr delay) there was a cohort of very scary looking and heavily armed French Police. You'd have to be mad, brave or drunk to mess with that lot. No footie for me sadly.
I am not really sure if it is new thing. I remember watching our golden team from the seventies and the boo boy then was poor Mickey Leach. I have just checked up on his history with us and am shocked to read that he was with us for 14 years, made 313 appearances and scored 61 goals! Looking back, he should be elevated to a "hero" status, but no he was regularly booed ...and I admit that I was one of them. Martin Busby was another at the time (6 years with us, 79 appearances and 6 goals). However Martin never recovered from his horrific break of his leg. The trouble then was that they replaced my heros like Gerry Francis, Don Masson, Dave Thomas, Don Givens or Stan himself ...... oh, how the happy memories flood back!
Micky Leach struggled at centre forward. He started to blossom when he was moved into the midfield. Busby, like you say, never recovered from that horrific injury at Fulham. This directly lead to us signing Dave Thomas. I reckon only Sir Les, Parker, Clive Wilson and Allen could have got into that side
At such a young age to have a massive transfer fee on your head must be difficult. Plus all of a sudden he is a multi millionaire living a life none of us on here could dream of. However, he needs to get back to basics and play football. Maybe he is tired after a long season - but that can be aimed at other players who have had more game time. As they say, form is temporary, class is permanent - maybe he will get himself sorted out and prove that he is international class and prove a lot of people wrong.
