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Who's willing to pay him £130k a week then? Name names please with some evidence preferably.

Yes he would be a big loss, and I’m wondering what’s the point in nurturing young prospects like him and others, if it’s only going to benefit other club's including possibly our direct competitors? Are we now a selling club that feeds the big boys? Or will we pay our emerging talent the going market rate and fight for our place at the top? Because that’s what’s at stake here. We’ve opted out of the infrastructural race, we opted out of the signing on and wage competition some time ago, and are we now going to opt out of keeping our emerging talent because of a refusal to pay them the going market rate? If we do it will signal to me a deliberate decision to operate and compete around mid point of the top half of the PL, because that will almost certainly be the eventual outcome of such a policy. Should we fans be happy with that?

I keep hearing this 'going rate ' term but what is the going rate for a 20 year old prospect if it's not £100k a week? A quick look on Google and if he gets his £150k, he'd be up there with the likes of Sanchez, Cesc, Terry, Mata and the like (depending on where you read). For me he should be no where near the same price as that bunch as he's still not the finished article!

I wouldn't mind better that if we buckle to what he wants, he'll turn into an even bigger Bertie big bollox and go [oops] just like after his first England cap.

I'm not so sure that £150k per week is an unreasonable request. He's one of the best players at one of the best clubs in the richest league in the world. Why shouldn't he be paid that kind of money when you see what other, far inferior players are earning?

The new TV deal means the clubs will be far wealthier so it's probably in line with the additional tv money that will be coming in.

Here's the funniest thing though......a lot of LFC fans moan that the club don't pay enough in wages and end up with sub-standard players. We now have a genuine star who was named as the best young player in Europe just a few months ago.......and people are complaining that his wage demands are too high!!!! The mind boggles.

150k is definitely unreasonable

Well I understand what you’re getting at there wilkij, However for fan’s of a club that almost exclusively signs ‘prospects’, it seems somewhat ironic that we should have to even discuss that question though. For me Sterling has done enough to justify a further investment in his additional potential that’s yet to emerge, and that’s what any suitor would be investing in, were they to come in for him. Also you must bear in mind he was an England international at 19 years of age so other clubs know the potential to be world class is there, whether or not it ever emerges. I’d be surprised if a few of the big boys don’t start sniffing around now that we've allowed him to go on the market.

So what? I imagine he's already been offered more elsewhere. We should pay up or he's gone. Its a lot but its how football is, there are worse players in the premier league on more

If we do get offered 50 million pounds for him I say we'd be errant fools not to sell him.

Oh yeah, and buy two and half potentials @ £20m + 20m + 10m for the half potential, that’ll go down well with FSG, but it won’t win you much, will it?

i blame jimmy hill for getting the wage cap scrapped... They'd all be on £20 a week otherwise...