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We can only judge based on his progress thus far. People were saying when we sold him that he'd shine with these 'better' players and that's hardly happened has it? If he was as good as he and some others think, why is he not carrying City or why did he not carry us last season like Suarez did before? City have taken a massive gamble that his potential will come good and the signs aren't looking good from where I'm sitting.

And when we bought Suarez, he was the top scorer in the Dutch league. We paid £23m for him so not a small amount but nothing like Sterling money.

I personally hope he gets thrown on the scrap heap for a season when Guardiola takes over. Then he is sold to a club with little ambition other than survival in the EPL. Somewhere like West Brom or Sunderland would be karma!

I think the bottom line is City have overpaid, carra reckoned I think it was 20m over the price they should have paid for sterling. He's been proved right, but in all fairness sterling is much better centrally, or when city have taken bigger risks in the champions league and have countered teams successfully this season. He's still a big talent but like chris said potential is nothing if you don't realize it, I don't think he'll realize it fully at city Guardialo might grow impatient with him.

shaun wright phillips had potential too.

Exactly lumba. What people need to ask themselves is would they be happy if we'd paid that for him?

Wasn't Kezman a top scorer in the Dutch league before Chelsea signed him and didn't he turn out to be a flop, Suarez was poor at the beginning of his Liverpool career and was dreadful in both Cup finals against Cardiff and Chelsea, people never said Ajax had our pants down did them but there saying about a young 20 year old, that's all am saying. Sterling could turn out to be a flop, city were only ever buying potential but I didn't hear too many people write Rooney off when United signed him from Everton, if we are in the habit of writing a player off so early even though he's got 14 years or more left in the game then let's write Kloppy off too as he's underperformed too...

Kezman was fukked up on coke so what do you expect?

Sterling has shown nothing this season to show he's anywhere close to or will be worth the money.

And Rooney was always a better player when he was younger, imo he hasn't aged well at all.

It's far too early to be writing any 20 year old player with potential off, they have 15 years in the game ahead of them and it's ludicrous to say he won't realise his potential, he may not but then again he could well do it, Sterling hasn't been poor by a long shot this season, I would say taking everything into consideration he has had a modest start, people are judging him as an established experienced 26 year old player and he's not, he's just a 20 year old player with barely 3 seasons experience of League football, Jordan Ibe has probably got better experience given at least he has been on loan at Derby County and people are not writing him off, just bitter people still hurting that Sterling wanted to better himself and it's making people judge with there hearts instead of there heads, anybody would do the same as him so why blame him...

How can you be bitter about a player that you didn't mind leaving?