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I think the time to say wether or not it's us or City have got the best deal is in five or six years time, if in that time City have won 2 or 3 League titles and maybe s champions League then Sterlings contribution will of verified City's gamble to pay do much money for such potential, if on the other hand they don't win and his impact isn't enough then it's us who have got the better deal, only can we judge in 5 years time not before as its not fair time to judge potential... And what if he's just a bench warmer coming on for 10 minutes a game? His contribution then will be very minimal and not worth £49m. nobody plays all the time now tho do they as its a so called squad game, If Sterling plays on half the games doesn't set the world alight but is decent and City win the League or champions league or even both then Everyone associated with City, managers, owners, players and fans will say it's money well spent, if they don't the finger will be pointed. Bit like us years ago with the famous white suits before the Cup final, we lost that day and we have been hammered ever since for wearing them and the spice boys tag, if we had won then it wouldn't of been mentioned and if anything those suits would of been famous...
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I think the time to say wether or not it's us or City have got the best deal is in five or six years time, if in that time City have won 2 or 3 League titles and maybe s champions League then Sterlings contribution will of verified City's gamble to pay do much money for such potential, if on the other hand they don't win and his impact isn't enough then it's us who have got the better deal, only can we judge in 5 years time not before as its not fair time to judge potential... And what if he's just a bench warmer coming on for 10 minutes a game? His contribution then will be very minimal and not worth £49m. nobody plays all the time now tho do they as its a so called squad game, If Sterling plays on half the games doesn't set the world alight but is decent and City win the League or champions league or even both then Everyone associated with City, managers, owners, players and fans will say it's money well spent, if they don't the finger will be pointed. Bit like us years ago with the famous white suits before the Cup final, we lost that day and we have been hammered ever since for wearing them and the spice boys tag, if we had won then it wouldn't of been mentioned and if anything those suits would of been famous... Dress it up as much as you like to make out that LFC got a bum deal but Sterling does not look anything like £50 mill player. Don't get me wrong, he's miles ahead of Ibe etc and i wish we still had him; however, i've never been totally convinced. If he wasn't English he'd be considered an underachieving luxury player.
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I don't think anyone in the game (apart from whoever signed him for City) thinks he's a £49m player!
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I think the time to say wether or not it's us or City have got the best deal is in five or six years time, if in that time City have won 2 or 3 League titles and maybe s champions League then Sterlings contribution will of verified City's gamble to pay do much money for such potential, if on the other hand they don't win and his impact isn't enough then it's us who have got the better deal, only can we judge in 5 years time not before as its not fair time to judge potential... And what if he's just a bench warmer coming on for 10 minutes a game? His contribution then will be very minimal and not worth £49m. nobody plays all the time now tho do they as its a so called squad game, If Sterling plays on half the games doesn't set the world alight but is decent and City win the League or champions league or even both then Everyone associated with City, managers, owners, players and fans will say it's money well spent, if they don't the finger will be pointed. Bit like us years ago with the famous white suits before the Cup final, we lost that day and we have been hammered ever since for wearing them and the spice boys tag, if we had won then it wouldn't of been mentioned and if anything those suits would of been famous... Dress it up as much as you like to make out that LFC got a bum deal but Sterling does not look anything like £50 mill player. Don't get me wrong, he's miles ahead of Ibe etc and i wish we still had him; however, i've never been totally convinced. If he wasn't English he'd be considered an underachieving luxury player. where on earth are you getting am making it look like Liverpool got a bum deal, your reading things which aren't there, my whole argument is based on we don't know either way who has got the bum deal for another 5 or 6 years, quite bizzare where ure getting that from. I think we are in agreement that English players are over priced it's always been that way nothing we can do about it however the flip side is Foreign players seem to get treated more leniently by fans when they don't perform Downing got far more stick than Markovic, Adam worse than Reirs and Andy Carroll worse than big Etic Meijer...
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Difference between Rooney and Sterling is Rooney was a bigger talent and a natural footballer.
I'm not saying Sterling's average but even at Liverpool he was limited. 90% of his game is pace and he certainly won't have that for the next 15 years, just ask Mikey Owen!
He had one great season when Luis made him look world class. He's a very good player, better than we've got probably, but I just can't see him ever being as good as City hope.
Forget judging it in 6 years, if City don't make the CL, City fans will be looking at £50m signings for the reason why..
I expect the main reason people wish we'd not sold him is yet again we p*ssed the money up the wall... (Firmino coming on well of course).
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Difference between Rooney and Sterling is Rooney was a bigger talent and a natural footballer.
I'm not saying Sterling's average but even at Liverpool he was limited. 90% of his game is pace and he certainly won't have that for the next 15 years, just ask Mikey Owen!
He had one great season when Luis made him look world class. He's a very good player, better than we've got probably, but I just can't see him ever being as good as City hope.
Forget judging it in 6 years, if City don't make the CL, City fans will be looking at £50m signings for the reason why..
I expect the main reason people wish we'd not sold him is yet again we p*ssed the money up the wall... (Firmino coming on well of course).
so won't they blame De Bruyne too if they don't qualify...
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Difference between Rooney and Sterling is Rooney was a bigger talent and a natural footballer.
I'm not saying Sterling's average but even at Liverpool he was limited. 90% of his game is pace and he certainly won't have that for the next 15 years, just ask Mikey Owen!
He had one great season when Luis made him look world class. He's a very good player, better than we've got probably, but I just can't see him ever being as good as City hope.
Forget judging it in 6 years, if City don't make the CL, City fans will be looking at £50m signings for the reason why..
I expect the main reason people wish we'd not sold him is yet again we p*ssed the money up the wall... (Firmino coming on well of course).
so won't they blame De Bruyne too if they don't qualify... We didn't sell them deBruyne, we caught them with pounds sterling.
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- and De Bruyne's been a lot better than Sterling. Keep up.
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And City would be doing loads better if De Bruyne hadn't got injured.
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- and De Bruyne's been a lot better than Sterling. Keep up. really....not worth the Money tho is he that's if you apply the same logic as Sterling...
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