It’s all well and good highlighting the number of goals he scored when he was in his prime but that doesn’t take into account all the opportunities he squandered for the team by not passing to a team mate who was better placed to score. Time after time he runs into blind alleys and shoots when there’s nothing on. This is the reason why City flicked him and Chelsea were duped into buying him.

My point is, he might score 15 goals a season but he probably also costs the team at least 10 goals by being over greedy.

You need to look at the wider picture with him in particular the frustration he causes to attacking team mates.

Edited by XKudu (15 May 2024 12.06pm)

Edited by XKudu (15 May 2024 12.07pm)

£350,000 pw in return he has scored 7 goals.

One more point

His three best seasons at City were;

17-18 - Sterling scored 23 in 46 games. City won the league and broke the record for goals scored in a PL season with 106.

18-19 - Sterling scored 25 in 51 games. City won the league and broke the top flight record for goals scored by an English team in a single season with 169 goals in all comps.

19-20 - Sterling scored 31 in 52 games. The team came 2nd in the league but did score the most goals with 102 compared with Liverpool's 85.

There's nothing there to suggest Sterling is detrimental to his team's output, and in fact, he was one of the biggest contributors in one of the best attacking teams the league has ever seen.

I agree with you that he can be wasteful, but the bigger picture is a player who still achieves an exceptionally high output at the highest level.

One of the most underrated players of this generation, for me.

But no, I don't think we should or would sign him at this stage of his career.

63 Prem assists which puts him in the top 20 of all time...

I'm not trying to catch you out with this, just highlighting that sometimes our perception of players isn't always fair - Sterling, in particular, gets a hard time from a lot of football fans, much of which I think is undeserved.

can't believe this has got so many responses. Clearly pure clickbait.
Whether you like Sterling or not, he is on over £300k a week and so is not in our price range.

Even if he was interested in a move to us, which i very much doubt, he is 29 and on the way down. One to avoid.

Quite, see my response above.

He would not take the come down in wages or status or play second fiddle to JPM.

And we would not have him as a makeweight as we will not be selling any player to them.

However, imagine him saying he is happy to be a squad player on £50k p/w without any player going the other way, just to be part of our new journey and stay in his native London (as opposed to spending one season in Saudi for £billions..?). Unlikely, in extreme, but I could be persuaded (for what that's worth).