Raheem

[Aidan O' Neill]

I knew he was a good lad.

From Sky News

The assault case against Liverpool footballer Raheem Sterling has collapsed due to his ex-girlfriend's "disappointing evidence".
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[ILD]

I'm not mad at you evidence, i'm just disappointed.

 

[Aidan O' Neill]

I'm not mad at you evidence, i'm just disappointed.

Haha. That's hurts even more.

 

[Jack D Rips]

Certainly disappointing for Sky News I'd say

 

[Dreambeliever]

Good news for LFC

 

[Bradley]

Now concentrate on the football and stop behaving like a ballbag kid.

 

[Mors]

Don't premiership footballers get off with speeding bans all the time due to them being able to afford the best lawyers to represent them? I'm sure there was absolutely nothing in the case and it was all fabricated. SIlly CPS wasting the taxpayers money.

 

[Squiggles]

He's been Raheemed in my eyes.

 

[Ryan]

Good to see he's held onto his rapist first touch.

 

[darkstarexodus]

I swear "touch of a rapist" was what I thought without a touch of irony on Saturday before remembering his legal issues.

 

[Dreambeliever]

He hasn't improved at all really from his first game last year has he?

 

[gkmacca]

He's very inconsistent this season. Against Notts County he worked his socks off and put in a fine team-oriented performance. In his last reserves match he was hopelessly ineffective and uninterested in the first half and was on fire in the second half (presumably after a major bollocking). Maybe he's struggling to understand the tactical instructions he gets, because while he's fine playing on the shoulder of defenders deep in their half he's often a liability deep in our half. It's a difficult one: I wouldn't send him on loan anywhere in or near London because I don't trust him not to go completely off the rails (he lives with his mum at the moment, for christs sake, and he still manages to pop into court about once every other month!), but he does look like he needs a short loan period somewhere with a progressive but really tough manager to monitor him. There's not many of those around, alas. Certainly here I'd choose Ibe over him every time at the moment.

 

[Mors]

I'd rather play Ibe than him. I don't see the attraction to him, he might be good one day, but he looks pretty shite at the moment to me. Same last season. He just looks like a sprinter that's been given a game of football to me.

 

[gkmacca]

Yet when he first had a run of games last season, masses of people were eagerly claiming that his adrenalin-driven burst of a few good games was proof that he should have been given such a chance a year or so earlier (like the then-great but now 'shit' Wisdom), because he was so, well, fantastic. The fact is, as some others pointed out, he'd never really been banging on the door of the first team, he'd always looked a young player who was going to need a lot more time to develop, and the way he was actually being handled, prior to 2012/13, had actually been very caring and considered. The experiences he's had, regardless of how he got them, will be invaluable in the future, if he recovers the right attitude, but he's still pretty much what he was then - a promising kid who still needs to get more strength, more guile, better technique and discipline.

 

[Judge Jules]

Now concentrate on the football and stop behaving like a ballbag kid.

Literally.

 

[gkmacca]

Sterling must stabilise his life, says Rodgers

27 Sep 2013 10:06
Young winger must focus attention on his career, after recent court appearances

Brendan Rodgers says Raheem Sterling needs to “stabilise his life” if he’s going to realise his full potential at Liverpool FC.

The 18-year-old winger has yet to start a Premier League game this season and there are fears his progress is being hampered by off the pitch problems.

Twice in the past six months Sterling has ended up in court after being charged with assault.

On both occasions the cases were dropped but Rodgers admits the youngster needs to focus more on his career.
“He needs to have a clear mind in everything in his life,” said Rodgers.

“We mustn’t forget he is 18. He needs to stabilise his life.

“He needs to understand the remarkable opportunity he has at one of the biggest clubs in the world and focus everything on his career.

“Once he does that and he is clear in his mind, he has no distractions, then we can get to the level of performance of the first four to five months of last year.

“He is a good boy and had lots going on last year when he was put in the spotlight and he did well, but now it’s about him focusing on his football.”

 

[Leo]

He has been awful at Senior level since all the shit with assaults and the like.
He does really need to get the head down now and some way payback some of that hefty contract he signed last year.

 

[Cerberus]

He's been wank since he got his new contract.