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Sterling to Tell Rodgers he wants to leave this summer

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If we're going to sell (and I've been in the camp for a few months now):
1) Sell him abroad -
2) Preferably to Bayern as they have talent they're likely going to let go of that we can get a 30-40 million pound fee & a p/x .
 
Digger nearly always is right on the money. Each time I hear or read something he's said/written, I wish we'd find a way to make more use of the guy to help the club in some way or other.
 
He's an excellent young player so I'd be very happy for him to stay. I think he'll be a top player for years so it would be preferable to sell him when he's 25 or 26 and his value could be astronomical. Of course, there's no guarantee that he'll improve, he certainly hasn't this season.

But if he leaves, I'll be ok with it as long as we get a good deal with a big fee and some % of sell-on in case he later becomes that $100m player and goes to Real or something.

I have no affection for the guy at all. It wouldn't bother me to see him play for Chelsea or Man City or Arsenal, as long as we screwed them on the fee.
 
Someone needs to sit Sterling down and show him Shaun Wright-Phillips Career DVD


Wright-Phillips was actually a much better player at that time than Sterling is now. He was ripping teams apart every week and scoring ridiculous goals. The top clubs in the country were trying to sign him for good reason. Sterling still needs to develop his end product, yet he is trying to bring about a move based on the assumption that other top clubs will let him play games despite being inconsistent and a mediocre finisher.
 
From March 2012:

Kenny Dalglish has barbed words for the advisers of Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling, 17, amid interest from Tottenham and ‘broken promises’ claims.

Dalglish said: ‘You earn the right to a run out by what you do on the pitch, not by what is said in newspapers.’

He hasn't learned a thing.
 
Do we really have comparable talent in the reserves and youth teams or is this you lads basically saying "yea, we can sell Owen because we have Neil Mellor coming through"?
 
IMO the only possible comparable talent is Ojo, but he's a different sort of player and still very young.

Personally I think it's wildly optimistic to put the likes of Wilson and Kent in a similar bracket. Kent in particular has never been a particularly distinguished youth player, and in all likelihood won't make it at LFC.
 
Do we really have comparable talent in the reserves and youth teams or is this you lads basically saying "yea, we can sell Owen because we have Neil Mellor coming through"?


I don't think the contrast is that stark but there is definitely an element of that going on.

Sterling is now not even that good, very much replaceable by Ibe, nowhere near as good as (the pretty one dimensional) SWP, a cunt and so forth and so forth.

This has been building up for months now.
 
I don't think the contrast is that stark but there is definitely an element of that going on.

Sterling is now not even that good, very much replaceable by Ibe, nowhere near as good as (the pretty one dimensional) SWP, a cunt and so forth and so forth.

This has been building up for months now.

Yeah, pretty much. It's ok to build up Ibe because he's in the mould of a Sterling, so people sort of take it as a given that he'll be as good as, if not better. He does have better attributes in some sense, more power physically and shooting, but Sterling is a more rounded player, despite him not fully showing it yet. Either way, it's foolish to say "it's ok", because it's not. Sterling could be a mercurial talent, so while that's still potentially the case, we should be trying to keep hold of him.

The thing is now, we look like cunts either way. We let him go and we're small time, we give him a bumper deal, and he's won.
 
Do we really have comparable talent in the reserves and youth teams or is this you lads basically saying "yea, we can sell Owen because we have Neil Mellor coming through"?


No doubt about it. Why worry about Gerrard, we have Jon Welsh. To be fair the difference in ability between Gerrard and Jon Welsh is significantly higher than the difference between Sterling and Ibe. As promising as Ibe has been, it is a bit of a leap of faith to suggest we have an able replacement for Sterling.
 
No doubt about it. Why worry about Gerrard, we have Jon Welsh. To be fair the difference in ability between Gerrard and Jon Welsh is significantly higher than the difference between Sterling and Ibe. As promising as Ibe has been, it is a bit of a leap of faith to suggest we have an able replacement for Sterling.


To me it's clear as day that Ibe has had a more impressive introduction to the first team than Sterling. Is he on the same level now as Sterling was this time last year? Probably not, but then he's had less experience.

My honest opinion is that there isn't much between them. Some people seem to think that putting Ibe on the same level is a deliberate attempt to do Sterling down, but not by me it isn't. I just tend to think Ibe's much better physical attributes might tell in the end compared to Sterling's more subtle qualities - especially in the Premier League.


Where I'd agree is is that Sterling and Ibe are *both* very special. I don't see the likes of Canos, Wilson, and Kent in the same league.
 
Is it within the realm of possibility to get 50 mill for him? Seriously?

City are desperate for English players especially with Milner leaving. It is definitely possible to get 50-65 from them. Arsenal and Chelsea - dont think so.
 
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