The problem is he could just go abroad for buttons
Sterling Deal Complete: 49 million (44 + 5)
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As much as that should be a concern for us it should also be a concern for Man City or Chelsea if they are serious about signing him.
In fact the only party that this suits is Sterling and his agent as they could probably command even lager wages and signing on fee.
I'll drink to that.
$50M buys a lot of lager, indeed
They can always find other good players to spend their £40m+ on. We can't replace that £40m so easily ourselves. It's far more our problem than anyone else's.
I wouldnt trust any "independent" comitee with connection to the FA do us any favour. We would probably end up with nothing but having to cash up to his agent for loosing his cut of a 50 mill transfer and pay qpr likewise and a reprimande of consequences if we try to hold back such a fine talent ever again!
Heh! Nice - This might say he's only worth 35mill but weirdly I bet he'll go for 46.8 Mill with a few add ons. I double dare you to add your own Raheem sweepstake price he'll go for. Bonus points for guessing the decibel levels of abuse he'll get at Anfield If/when it happens.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33419234
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33419234
Liverpool ace Raheem Sterling to join Man City's pre-season tour as £50m deal edges closer
MANCHESTER CITY are closing in on a £50m deal for Raheem Sterling that will see him included in their pre-season tour of Australia.
By Jeremy Cross and Ian Whittell / Published 7th July 2015
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Etihad bosses are confident of striking a deal with Liverpool for the England winger before the end of next week.
It is doubtful an agreement will be reached before Manuel Pellegrini's squad leave on Thursday, but the Chilean remains hopeful Sterling will link-up with his men midway through the tour.
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City have seen two bids of up to £40m rejected, with the Reds holding out for £50m.
Starsport understands City chairman Khaldoon Al-Mubarak is willing to meet the asking price and knows agreeing personal terms with Sterling will be a formality.
City are convinced the Reds will accept £45m in cash - plus an extra £5m depending on Sterling's success at the Etihad.
The deal would smash City's transfer record and make Sterling the most expensive Englishman in history.
Sterling returned to pre-season training with Brendan Rodgers's men yesterday, but has made it clear he wants to leave Anfield after rejecting a new deal worth £100,000-a-week.
WANTED: Man City could snap up Raheem Sterling [GETTY]
“I've been lucky enough to be playing for maybe 13 years now, hopefully I can bring that experience to the squad and help those younger guys along”
James Milner
New signing James Milner also reported for duty with Liverpool on the day the Reds confirmed Sean O'Driscoll as the club's new assistant manager.
And Rodgers has handed the former City midfielder the daunting task of filling the boots of Steven Gerrard and the shirt of Luis Suarez.
Speaking for the first time since completing his free transfer to Anfield, Milner revealed he has been asked to help develop the Kop youngsters.
He said: "I've been lucky enough to be playing for maybe 13 years now, hopefully I can bring that experience to the squad and help those younger guys along.
Milner insisted he is not daunted by the task of donning the No.7 jersey once worn in the past by legends Kevin Keegan, Kenny Dalglish and Suarez.
Milner added: "I was seven at Man City, but at a club like Liverpool you can wear any number on the squad and it'll have been filled with amazing players who have worn it before.
"I know seven is a special number for this football club and hopefully I can be a special player for this club."
MANCHESTER CITY are closing in on a £50m deal for Raheem Sterling that will see him included in their pre-season tour of Australia.
By Jeremy Cross and Ian Whittell / Published 7th July 2015
23
Etihad bosses are confident of striking a deal with Liverpool for the England winger before the end of next week.
It is doubtful an agreement will be reached before Manuel Pellegrini's squad leave on Thursday, but the Chilean remains hopeful Sterling will link-up with his men midway through the tour.
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City have seen two bids of up to £40m rejected, with the Reds holding out for £50m.
Starsport understands City chairman Khaldoon Al-Mubarak is willing to meet the asking price and knows agreeing personal terms with Sterling will be a formality.
City are convinced the Reds will accept £45m in cash - plus an extra £5m depending on Sterling's success at the Etihad.
The deal would smash City's transfer record and make Sterling the most expensive Englishman in history.
Sterling returned to pre-season training with Brendan Rodgers's men yesterday, but has made it clear he wants to leave Anfield after rejecting a new deal worth £100,000-a-week.
WANTED: Man City could snap up Raheem Sterling [GETTY]
“I've been lucky enough to be playing for maybe 13 years now, hopefully I can bring that experience to the squad and help those younger guys along”
James Milner
New signing James Milner also reported for duty with Liverpool on the day the Reds confirmed Sean O'Driscoll as the club's new assistant manager.
And Rodgers has handed the former City midfielder the daunting task of filling the boots of Steven Gerrard and the shirt of Luis Suarez.
Speaking for the first time since completing his free transfer to Anfield, Milner revealed he has been asked to help develop the Kop youngsters.
He said: "I've been lucky enough to be playing for maybe 13 years now, hopefully I can bring that experience to the squad and help those younger guys along.
Milner insisted he is not daunted by the task of donning the No.7 jersey once worn in the past by legends Kevin Keegan, Kenny Dalglish and Suarez.
Milner added: "I was seven at Man City, but at a club like Liverpool you can wear any number on the squad and it'll have been filled with amazing players who have worn it before.
"I know seven is a special number for this football club and hopefully I can be a special player for this club."
I'm sick of this talk of add-ons. Add-ons, traditionally, are really for when a club buys a young player who still represents a gamble in terms of his potential. It was a means of smaller clubs exploiting the full selling potential of raw talent (such as when QPR sold Sterling to us). Sterling has already played in a World Cup, is a regular at international level and is supposedly coveted by lots of big clubs. Why the hell should we even consider add-ons? We're not Northampton selling some kid to the big boys. City would basically be implying, 'We want this player so much we'll pay over £40m for him, but we're not quite sure how well he'll do so we'll only pay you a bit more if he scores x amount of goals and ends up with some silverware'. Sorry, but you either really, really want him, or you don't, and if you DO, then pay the full price.
There is no negotiation on LFC's part, either City make an offer we can't turn down or it's the status quo. Win, win for LFC.
If I were Sterling I'd be starting to get twitchy that City aren't really sure they want me enough to break down LFC's resistance.
This current business of a little bit bigger offer, wait 2 weeks, and a little bit bigger offer, wait 2 weeks approach by City is getting embarrassing now. If they were really serious they'd strike a deal in a day. What's 5 million to an oil rich state?.
Who blinks first? They know Sterling won't sign a new contract so are waiting for us to stick or twist. We can keep the player knowing there's a reasonable chance he'll leave for a lot less next Jan or June. Or we can accept what they offer when they offer it.
We are in the same position regarding Benteke.
We can blink as much as we like. We haven't put him up for sale.
If City know they can get him for less next summer, they can wait until next summer.
But all kinds of things can happen between now and then - not least Sterling's efforts to ensure he's still an England starter when the European Championships begin. If he wants to star in that tournament then he can't afford to sulk even if he does stay here.
City know that Sterling doesn't want to stay in the north west. He wants to go to London. If they wait he'll try everything to sign for another club down south. So there's no blinking contest. If they want him, they'll have to pay what we say or go away.
This is not just some run of the mill 'sell before contract ends' scenario. This is a saga about a big club being taken for a ride, treated like shite by some huckster. If we sell, we should only do so on our terms. No buts or blinks and no add-ons.
If City know they can get him for less next summer, they can wait until next summer.
But all kinds of things can happen between now and then - not least Sterling's efforts to ensure he's still an England starter when the European Championships begin. If he wants to star in that tournament then he can't afford to sulk even if he does stay here.
City know that Sterling doesn't want to stay in the north west. He wants to go to London. If they wait he'll try everything to sign for another club down south. So there's no blinking contest. If they want him, they'll have to pay what we say or go away.
This is not just some run of the mill 'sell before contract ends' scenario. This is a saga about a big club being taken for a ride, treated like shite by some huckster. If we sell, we should only do so on our terms. No buts or blinks and no add-ons.
Sure, but we'll lose a lot of money in that scenario so the chances are we'll definitely blink first and sell him this summer.
And this saga - to me, anyway - seems pretty run of the mill as far as football transfers are concerned.
Say FSG come out and say 'he will not be sold to another team in this country for any amount of money, full stop'. Where does that leave us with Aidy? Surely the club and Aidy have no appetite to leave sterling on 35k? He'd have to come in and negotiate a deal wouldn't he? I know it's likely that he'll go, and Aidy said the 900k bullshit etc, but I wouldn't be shocked if FSG told them to do one.
I don't think we will lose that much. As I said yesterday, the tribunal rulings in the past have taken account of the most recent bids for the player and other public valuations. If a club bids over £40m for him, it can hardly then tell a tribunal it values him as half that. Besides which, if City don't get him now, I'd expect us to probably do a deal with a London club in January that will suit both of us fine. City can feck off.
We absolutely need to take advantage of the fact that Sterling has manoeuvred himself into a stupid position:
1) We don't need the money
2) As Macca has said, if we wait till next summer to sell him then a) we'll save on the wages we'd have to pay for a replacement and b) we'll still make a huge profit on what we paid for him
3) Sterling won't want to not play, or play shite this season with the Euros coming up at the end of it.
1) We don't need the money
2) As Macca has said, if we wait till next summer to sell him then a) we'll save on the wages we'd have to pay for a replacement and b) we'll still make a huge profit on what we paid for him
3) Sterling won't want to not play, or play shite this season with the Euros coming up at the end of it.
I still think people are overplaying our hand on this. Everything rests on what that hypothetical tribunal sets his value at two years down the line, combined with the possibility of Sterling deciding to move abroad instead (in which case we get very little indeed). I find it hard to have much confidence in either of those things going our way.
£45+5m is pefectly fine IMO, and risk-free.
£45+5m is pefectly fine IMO, and risk-free.
I don't accept we'd automatically be strengthening them.
IMO it's just as likely we'd be weakening them, relative to us.
I can't see that we'd get less than 20mill from a tribunal, when it looks like Ings is going for 9mill. More like 30+ maybe. Add onto that the wages saved - I'd defo hang onto him.
OR
Offer him another contract with a reasonable release clause - 50mill abroad, 75mill in this country.
I just don't trust those tribunals. They never seem to set anything like market value.
Having said that, it is hard to see them setting less than £20m. Which would be fine, but there's the possibility of him going to Real Madrid for buttons to consider, too.
I think we should play this right to the 11th hour of transfer deadline day and get the absolutely maximum panic rate going. The 50+ million will be needed for Klopp's panic buys in January to address the sorry position Rodgers has left us in.
Quite possibly, but I can't help wondering if there was a more specific message in that, namely: "This is what a silly bid looks like - don't waste our time with one of your own for Sterling".
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