KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum could sterling really stab us in the back ??

Very true KP but this is an opportunity to buy a player that could be the difference between a top 4 spot and finishing 6th. At his age these players do not come around that often.

The press are doing us a favour here. They are linking one club with a £40m bid. If more than one interested high profile club is in then stands to reason that it could hit £50m.

Press love the sensationalism that comes along with this and pressure is on the first bid to now come in higher than we might have expected.

I think somebody on another thread alluded to weakening a rival by selling to them. In that case I hope he goes to Scumchester. Of course he will go to London. No doubt Maureen will have been blown away by the goal he got in the League Cup semi. Realistically he is going to go there. The other clubs will help set the price by running it up through the press. We could be running the biggest transfer scam of the century without doing a thing.

Let them have a bidding war over him, he's already gone as far as I'm concerned and not a huge loss for us. But I think we'll do well to get 40m.

Yes and what is the common theme of those transfers?

They were all signed by OUR incompetent shower! You don't see other EPL clubs lining up to pay such amounts for mediocrity by and large do you?

We are the league's laughing stock not yard stick.

With KP on this one- we won't get 50 million for him. It's possible a City may pay 40 if they have a real home grown quota issue and they have the players for Sterling to pass the ball on to but 50 sounds ridiculous he simply isn't good enough at present.

I think you are forgetting one important factor in his valuation. He is English and a highly rated one aswell. Shaw went for 30m and he was a defender. The everton kid forgot his name will go at that same price if not higher if sold. Sterling must be sold no less then 30m but Liverpool would be stupid if they don't put a higher price in the 40, 50m range. Clubs will pay up, its the market he isn't worth that much but consider inflation and thats his price.

We should've put in a 30-40 mil buyout clause in Ibe's contract to avoid future problems like this.

The more clubs fighting for his signature the better. If United pay up so what? let him join them.

Exactly. Stupid move by the club if they did indeed reject the approach.

If there really is a sell on clause with QPR, that just makes it all the more important for a player to be included in the exchange. That way the cash value will be less and we have to pay them less

This is madness itself, Neymar is 20 times the player Sterling will ever be!