Raheem Sterling

[danperkins]

Am I right in thinking he will be the most expensive English player ever and 2nd most expensive British player ever (after Bale)? That's alot of pressure on the shoulders of a 20 year old.

[badpiggy]

Yknow PTP, that's probably the first post of yours I've read every single word of & thought that you're in full control of your faculties (tbf I usually skim most of them to get the gist cos it's like reading the ramblings of an overexcited child). Well done, and I agree. :goldstar:

Also agree with Pobs, who despite his blatant fakery is often coherent & well balanced.

A good day all round lads, keep it up.

Fabulous leftfield attack on a completely unsuspecting PTP

[BobTheCharmer]

Fabulous leftfield attack on a completely unsuspecting PTP

to be fair to plod he absolutely nailed it.

[Pablo]

Yknow PTP, that's probably the first post of yours I've read every single word of & thought that you're in full control of your faculties (tbf I usually skim most of them to get the gist cos it's like reading the ramblings of an overexcited child). Well done, and I agree. :goldstar:

Also agree with Pobs, who despite his blatant fakery is often coherent & well balanced.

A good day all round lads, keep it up.

So incredibly flattered.

[frank the tank]

As long as we can spend the money wisely, then LFC will be better for losing sterling. The issue will be spending it wisely though......because the £49m fee equates to a Lallana (25m), a Lovren (20m) and a Lambert (4m)......


The clowns who trolled him on twitter are clowns. The reports now are "poor raheem....a 20 year old being targeted online" as opposed to the little spoilt prick who pulled up the handbrake until he got his move.....

What is most frustrating about this is the fact that Raheem will be entitled to 10% of the 49m because he didn't ask for a move. He didn't submit a transfer request. For me, that is just wrong. I would have preferred LFC to accept 40m and the little prick get no money.

So out of the 45m up front, 4.5 goes to Sterling, 9m goes to QPR, and just under 32m will go to LFC.....enough to buy a benteke!!!

[dww]

I agree dww....speaking with a few mates about it and my argument was, whilst I do believe sterling has a higher ceiling and potential to be miles better than Nasir....right now (as in last season) Nasri for me is a lot more effective on the pitch, certainly whenever I've watched city and he's played he's involved in a lot.

That's why I feel sterling has it really cut out for him. Especially if city go and sign de bruyne as well. I think sterling is class little player but the one thing he lacks is that final touch/pass/finish is just not quite there at the moment.

Playing for Liverpool, he could afford to miss chances, give it away, have poor games, because we were prepared to give him the game time and the patience to develop.

At city, under huge pressure now with the eyes of the world on him, one or two poor games, missed chances in big matches, and players like Nasri/silva/de bruyne or wanting to play and arguably all three are more effective in that final decision moment that matters most....he could really struggle.

The one player I think he can replace is navas. Cause despite being ****ing rapid, his final decision making is just as bad.....however, what he does which I'm not sure sterling would be as effective, is to just basically be an out and out winger, hugging the byline and using his pace as an outlet

It will be interesting to see what happens. Personally, deep down, I hope he fails. If that is bitter so be it, but **** him.....I want every single player other than Liverpool players in the league to fail!

I do think it could go one of two ways, he could go on and become a top star, but it's still in the balance for him and could quite easily go the other and he's made it so much harder for himself with his actions towards us, off the field, additional pressure of a huge fee and a much higher expectations. That's why I felt, unbiased, that he was better off here for a few years where he could develop and be given the time.

The way it all went, I'm glad he's gone now and for a huge fee so we can move on....though deep down it is worrying. We struggle to compete, we lose are best players on a regular basis and we struggle to sign class replacements.

That said, I don't believe we will miss him that much. He was more wasteful than prolific, and with ibe coming through and hopefully both origi and firminho being as good as we all hope, then providing we have a goalscorer fit and scoring being that Sturridge or whoever then I think we will be fine

My major major worry is this time next year, because I can see it now....one more good season for coutinho, with another average season for the club, and we will here rumours of coutinhos wife not liking liverpool, wanting to live in a Spanish speaking country where she can settle and then in come barca and off he goes.

I think we just have to build a good side and progress, everything else will take care of itself. Realistically, we are in the second or third rung of the European club hierarchy now and if one of the teams above us come in for players whilst we don't have CL football we will lose them.

Completely agree. Honestly I think he's left a season or two too early and may suffer for it. I think it would have been in everyone's best interests for him to stay here and develop a while longer.

He's basically believed his own hype a little too much and we will see if it backfires or if he can back it up. He'll be under a lot of pressure now anyway as a £50m player.

I tend to agree with both of you on this. However, from the opposite side there aren't many places outside Barcelona where he would have the same quality of players in his position to learn from.

[meffin]

Undergoing his medical now apparently

[Roboklopp]

So incredibly flattered.

:fistbump:

[Roboklopp]

undergoing his medical now apparently

ptp?

[Chris]

Scum cunt!!! A **** Salomon Kalou.

[Bender]

screw him the fake Eddie murphy mofo

[meffin]

Its confirmed now- lets move, or even nuke the thread

[Rich]

So long Raheem!

[meffin]

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[danperkins]

He could turn into a superstar or could be a complete flop! **** it, lets forget about him & push on. Hoping we still can sign one or two more quality players in this window. As I said, don't wish Sterling any harm but at the same time.. I don't wish him any luck either.