Raheem Sterling

[Paul12]

Raheem Pounds Sterling

[kingfunk]

City are showing vague confidence in Sterlings ability, speaks volumes.

[leo]

Sell him to a club in China.
Asamoah Gyan will be paid over £200,000 a week. Send his agent too

[TheElephantMan]

£40m + £5m add-ons (whatever they are) I'd still tell them to **** off. The price is £50m (it's whatever the club think/say it is). We should stick to our guns, we don't need to sell. The player is more desperate to leave than we are to sell. I'd rather keep him and burn his house down, him to do his acls. What is/are acls?

[Roboklopp]

Anterior cruciate ligaments I think.

[TheElephantMan]

That's nice. Okay. I appreciate the response by the way!

[Roboklopp]

Salreet. No one likes to be ignored when they ask a question.

[TheElephantMan]

Tis true.

[Liverpel]

Former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has criticised Raheem Sterling's behaviour and told him to 'be a man' about his future.

Sterling, who has made no secret of his desire to leave Anfield this summer, is understood to have missed pre-season training for a second time on Thursday and refused to be part of the club's pre-season tour to the Far East.

Sky sources understand the 19-year-old forward no longer wants to work with manager Brendan Rodgers - something the club strongly denies.

But, in an exclusive interview with Sky Sports News HQ from new club LA Galaxy, Gerrard accused Sterling of letting down Liverpool's supporters.

Gerrard said: “I’m not happy with all that carry-on and I don’t think there’s any need for it. They all need to be men about the situation.

“Raheem needs to go in and speak to the owners and to Brendan himself, tell them what he wants and go about it that way. You don’t have to throw illnesses in and refuse to go on tour.

"There are millions and millions of Liverpool fans around the world who are itching to see Raheem Sterling in a Liverpool kit. So I don’t think it’s fair on them if he is behaving like that.”

Liverpool have already rejected two bids - of up to £40m - from Manchester City for Sterling and Rodgers remains keen to keep the player.

Sterling is under contract with the Reds until 2017 but his relationship with the club has deteriorated since he turned down the opportunity to sign an improved deal in January.

Since then he has given an interview, unsanctioned by the club, in which he stressed he was not "a money-grabbing 20-year-old".

His agent Aidy Ward subsequently added fuel to the fire by insisting Sterling would not sign a new contract "for £900,000-a-week".

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11669/9908662/steven-gerrard-tells-raheem-sterling-to-be-a-man-about-his-liverpool-future

[MrMichael]

Has he said it publicly or has it just leaked? Because it was entirely public when BR commented on contract negotiations which caused fans to abuse Raheem.

It's all escalated from that brilliant piece of pressure tactics which backfires big time.

Raheems made some shocking choices, but can certainly see why his ****ty agent has the leverage to blame BR.

Neither, Aidy Ward briefed the media about it after the refusing to go on tour story broke. And that stuff about Rodgers commenting on negotiations is a flagrant red herring, as if that was the start of the problems. Quite clearly Sterling's camp were already beginning the process of manoeuvring his exit before anyone at the club said anything, all that nonsense about feeling undervalued and being upset we didn't offer him a new deal the previous season had been around for ages, and imo Rodgers will have had real genuine cause to feel very personally let down by that given how he had nurtured Sterling's career to that point.

So he said what, "we've made the lad a fabulous offer" or words to that effect, both factually true and nothing everyone didn't know already. That any utter morons masquerading as fans may have started giving Sterling **** at that point is not his responsibility , those are unreasonable reactions to a reasonable statement and only the responsibility of the individuals involved.

The very notion that pressure tactics may have been thought necessarily at that stage shows whether the chicken or the egg came first. This entire thing has been engineered from the start and for Sterling to allow his agent to try to make this all about the man most responsible for him remotely being considered worth all this money etc at this stage of his career just shows there are no depths they won't sink to. The club and the manager are not in the wrong here and this latest shot in what has been continual, pathetic and utterly transparent manipulation is no more credible than anything that came before; playing out of position, dreaming of trophies, slighted by lack of negotiations etc etc. Aidy Ward has leveraged everything and anything to make Sterling's position completely untenable at the club and that makes his narrative so untrustworthy and cynical it should simply be discounted.

[brightred]

Well said Stevie!

[marcus50bucks]

Neither, Aidy Ward briefed the media about it after the refusing to go on tour story broke. And that stuff about Rodgers commenting on negotiations is a flagrant red herring, as if that was the start of the problems. Quite clearly Sterling's camp were already beginning the process of manoeuvring his exit before anyone at the club said anything, all that nonsense about feeling undervalued and being upset we didn't offer him a new deal the previous season had been around for ages, and imo Rodgers will have had real genuine cause to feel very personally let down by that given how he had nurtured Sterling's career to that point.

So he said what, "we've made the lad a fabulous offer" or words to that effect, both factually true and nothing everyone didn't know already. That any utter morons masquerading as fans may have started giving Sterling **** at that point is not his responsibility , those are unreasonable reactions to a reasonable statement and only the responsibility of the individuals involved.

The very notion that pressure tactics may have been thought necessarily at that stage shows whether the chicken or the egg came first. This entire thing has been engineered from the start and for Sterling to allow his agent to try to make this all about the man most responsible for him remotely being considered worth all this money etc at this stage of his career just shows there are no depths they won't sink to. The club and the manager are not in the wrong here and this latest shot in what has been continual, pathetic and utterly transparent manipulation is no more credible than anything that came before; playing out of position, dreaming of trophies, slighted by lack of negotiations etc etc. Aidy Ward has leveraged everything and anything to make Sterling's position completely untenable at the club and that makes his narrative so untrustworthy and cynical it should simply be discounted.

I understand where you are coming from Michael but as a club we also have to take responsibility for whats happened. What happened to keeping things private? There was no need for Rodgers to come out and say "We have made Sterling an incredible offer". Immediately that would send alarm bells ringing that something isn't right and fans may start to assume Sterling's camp are being greedy. I can see why their camp would be annoyed at negotiations being leaked. Ward and Sterling antics have been piss poor but there is no way Liverpool are totally blameless for the way this saga has been carried out.

[EwarWoo]

and imo Rodgers will have had real genuine cause to feel very personally let down by that given how he had nurtured Sterling's career to that point.

You don't think this played straight into Aidy's hands?

No doubt he jumped right in "look at this ****, he thinks you're a jumped up kid, are you going to accept this? And he's turning the fans against you, look at this abuse, after carrying the club the past 6 months, do you feel valued?"

For a 20 year old kid who seem's to be quite naive...

Then we have the interview as a direct result of the abuse this comment started. And so on and so on.

It's not a red Herring at all.

BR has a history of calling players out in the media to try and pressure them to his way. This one backfired big time.

There's fault on both sides.

[topscorer]

Raheem Sterling

The agent has been an utter **** but I hope the club learn from this and change the way they work with players.

At the end of the day the club has access to the players nearly all day every day.

They need to have some kind of educational program in place to teach them how to behave.

Call it indoctrination if you but like Sterling would have benefited.

They need to understand the value of being positively associated with our club. Not just the pride thing etc. they need to be taught about the financial benefits and long term benefits of being associated with our club.

We have the largest supporter base in the world that opens up all kinds of commercial opportunities during your career and post career.

Ex Liverpool players don't do too bad with Ambassador roles, veteran tournaments and TV appearances etc. we look after our former players.

His agent is looking for the quick buck for himself and not the long term financial interest of Sterling.

It's one thing wanting a move, and it could have been engineered in a way that the fans would have found acceptable and all of us wishing Sterling the best.

But the way they have tried to do this has completely destroyed any possibility of Sterling being able to benefit in the future from his 5 year association with our great club.

Really ignorant and stupid move by his agent that seems to be completely blinkered and clueless.

[Venton]

You don't think this played straight into Aidy's hands?

No doubt he jumped right in "look at this ****, he thinks you're a jumped up kid, are you going to accept this? And he's turning the fans against you, look at this abuse, after carrying the club the past 6 months, do you feel valued?"

For a 20 year old kid who seem's to be quite naive...

Then we have the interview as a direct result of the abuse this comment started. And so on and so on.

It's not a red Herring at all.

BR has a history of calling players out in the media to try and pressure them to his way. This one backfired big time.

There's fault on both sides.

You think Sterling seems to be naive?