mcfc Raheem Sterling

[O Fenomeno]

Rodgers lacks loyalty

Apart from that he is a very good coach

[The Infamous]

Apparently sterling fined for missing training

[O Fenomeno]

After watching Monaco last season e the recent U21 European championships

No way Sterling is the best U21 player in Europe thats a myth

Bernard Silva>Sterling easily

[Yeshua]

Low it bandwagon hopper, u21 championships don't mean shit, Sterling would have bossed it as well(like Ilori and Can did) past that level.

[Yeshua]

Silva has had 1 full season

[Mame Biram Diouf]

 

Sky Sports News HQ ✔@SkySportsNewsHQ

BREAKING: Sky Sources: #MCFC have contacted #LFC and two clubs are now in dialogue over Raheem Sterling's future #SSNHQ

4:45 PM - 10 Jul 2015

[O Fenomeno]

How are you meant to close the gap in Europe with signings like this

[Seth Rollins]

Sterling doesn't take City from 2nd to 1st. Sorry.

 

And if I was him I'd be in the papers talking crud, talking crud at the training ground, just going on cruddy to everyone.

 

Can't get boyed at work nah fam.

[Zizouz]

Sterling doesn't take City from 2nd to 1st. Sorry.

 

And if I was him I'd be in the papers talking crud, talking crud at the training ground, just going on cruddy to everyone.

 

Can't get boyed at work nah fam.

can't do that if you wanna make that subway sponsorship money

 

[Wavant]

Lmao.

[Afroman]

BREAKING: Sky Sources: Liverpool and Man City in advanced talks over Raheem Sterling's transfer. #SSNHQ

 

£45m Apparently 200k PW

[Mame Biram Diouf]

Not going on tour with them

[gattsu]

200k per week    

 

can't even knock him for that

[Drift]

So these are the things that have been levelled at Raheem Sterling: he’s selfish, he’s disloyal, he’s callow, he’s arrogant, he’s ambitious, he’s immature.

 

Well, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and yes. Newsflash: he’s a professional footballer. You know what they say about loyalty: if Liverpool want that these days, they better get a golden Labrador to play on the right wing.

 

Idealise your heroes if you want to but romanticise them at your peril. The reality is that most players who make it to the Premier League are hard men, emotionally as well as physically. 

 

People like Sterling are survivors. They’re the ones who made the cut. They’re the ones who saw their fellow apprentices in tears when the youth-team boss told them they had no future in the game.

 

They’re the ones who sat outside in the corridor and saw the shattered hopes trudging past them down the corridor heading for a life in Palookaville. They’re the ones who smelled the fear but escaped the cull.

 

They learned all about loyalty back then. They saw how a club will dash a dream as quickly as a snap of the fingers. It’s not personal. It’s business. That’s the way the clubs treat it. They have to. Why should the players be any different?

 

Nobody’s playing a violin for them but, in their world, it’s sink or swim. Trying to make it as a professional footballer is a hard, hard school. There is no sentiment involved. It’s about proving your worth. 

 

People like Sterling, they’re the ones who left home in their teens, uprooted and sent to digs to live with families they don’t know, away from their mums and dads, knowing the odds are they’re going to be chucked on football’s rubbish heap.

 

Sterling lived that life. He lodged with the people he called his ‘house parents’, Peter and Sandra, when he moved to Liverpool from his home on a north London estate aged 15.

 

A lot of the kids who make it in football are hungrier than the others for a reason. Sterling had a difficult childhood. After he and his mum left Jamaica for England when he was five, his father, who he never knew, was murdered in Kingston. For kids like him, football is often an escape.

 

Sterling’s story is not untypical. Before he knows it, someone like Craig Bellamy finds himself in Norwich, about as far east of his home in Cardiff as you can get in this country, crying outside a chip shop because he has just got off the phone from his parents and the homesickness is killing him. 

 

Or you’re another player I know, an apprentice when he made a senior pro look silly in training and found himself cleaning up a pile of steaming faeces from the dressing-room floor as punishment.

 

Or you’re the lad I know who was cut from Manchester City’s youth set-up at 15 and joined a lower division club on YTS forms. He moved away from home for the first time and found the demands of training hard. He had real talent but got a niggling injury. He was sent for treatment. The medics couldn’t find anything. He was told he had to play injured. He wasn’t used to that. He tried but his form never really recovered. At the end of his two years, they let him go.

 

The point is, it’s not easy getting where Sterling has. Top-flight football does not breed balanced individuals. It breeds single-minded, intensely driven young men who prioritise their careers over everything else because, if they want to make it, they have to. 

 

So they shut everything else out, including friendships and relationships. A player has to be intensely selfish just to have a chance. They’re not particularly normal. Most of the time, the normal ones don’t make it. If you want rounded, grounded individuals, talk to a teacher or a nurse. Definitely not a footballer. Definitely not somebody who has cut himself off from most of society.

 

Sure, Sterling could have been more tactful in his dealings with Liverpool. Maybe he could have disguised the fact that he wanted to leave. Maybe he could have been more cute. But maybe he figures, why bother? It has to be that way if you’re going to make it like he has. If you’re going to play for one of the top clubs in the Premier League and the England team, then you’re going to have to sacrifice most of your youth for it.

 

Again, you won’t find anybody offering any sympathy for that. Nor should they. Just don’t expect these young men to play nice when they make decisions about their future. Sterling has no roots in Liverpool. He has no real emotional attachment to the club or the city. The media and the fans demand that attachment but the hard truth is that it’s an unrealistic expectation.

 

Sure, feel sympathy for the fans who take a player to their hearts, who idolise him and dream of him being the inspiration for a renaissance at their club. But don’t blame the player if he’s ruthless when someone offers him the chance to move on. It’s the way the system made him.

 

 

 

 

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real shit

[ag.]

loool man like henoc u knowww jeeez

never knew he was still at liverpool

[Seth Rollins]

I don't need the whole background story on his life. The bottom line is loyalty is never two ways. When the club want rid of you and you've done nothing wrong or you lose your place simply because someone better becomes available no one batters an eyelid.

[Agony]

So much real talk in that article

[TF S4DK]

There is a lot of real but...

After a while, I don't care what anyone says clubs and ultimately the fans of them clubs reward and look after those players well, they may not owe loyalty but they do owe some sort code of behaviour.

[Seth Rollins]

Like Mourinho basically telling Cech "F*ck you and your family" and trying to ship him off to France.

 

Dog eat dog world. Money doesn't buy loyalty. No more boyhood club players playing for their clubs anymore. No one coming through the ranks like Terry, Gerrard, United 90's etc.

 

/

 

My only gripe is £200k a week at 20. What's he gonna earn aged 25...?

[Drift]

if the manager of that club starts talking to the press openly about your contract that code of behaviour is out the window.

[Seth Rollins]

Brendan is s c*nt.

[TF S4DK]

Cech is the wrong example tbh.

Mourinho wanted to do what was best for him. Cech wanted to do what was best for him.

Roman listened to the player and let him have his wish.

Chelsea actually displayed that loyalty and service does count for something and Cech got what he wanted without talking back in the press to Mourinho or missing training sessions. Lol.

[TF S4DK]

if the manager of that club starts talking to the press openly about your contract that code of behaviour is out the window.

It really doesn't, infact in many ways Sterling could've have made Liverpool look very silly if he handled it with a code of behaviour.