Worst Sterling transfer ever

Professional Griefer · 13-07-2015 04:44PM

Those tweets, so classy.

Ranchu · 13-07-2015 05:12PM

Liverpool have done well with the fee but I get the feeling it will be justified. He's done well under quite a bit of pressure for his age. It might ease up for him a bit with better players around him at City. The media are going to be on his back nonstop though.

Billy86 · 13-07-2015 05:34PM

thebaz wrote: »

Is Sterling comparable to Zidane or Ronaldo ?
Those 2 are greats , Sterling is just potential, with a serious attitude problem

This is the modern transfer market for ya, just like Man Utd paid so much for a fullback last season. There is English player tax, the fact that prices have skyrocketed as well (a lot seem to think the average is not much different than a decade ago, which is wrong), and age. Sterling is 20, so City will be able to get a good 12 years out of him, which would come to about 4mn per season. Then factor in selling between kinda-sorta competitive rivals (though City are above Liverpool quite easily, of course) coupled with City's bottomless pockets, and it's not that big of a deal really.

Corholio · 13-07-2015 06:07PM

Ranchu wrote: »

Liverpool have done well with the fee but I get the feeling it will be justified. He's done well under quite a bit of pressure for his age. It might ease up for him a bit with better players around him at City. The media are going to be on his back nonstop though.

Hardly helped himself with that though now has he.

Ranchu · 13-07-2015 06:37PM

Corholio wrote: »

Hardly helped himself with that though now has he.

No, not at all. If he has any sense he'll stay well clear of them for a while.

pablo128 · 13-07-2015 06:38PM

Owen Hargreaves @17 milion sterling was a pretty sh1t signing.

Professional Griefer · 13-07-2015 06:45PM

pablo128 wrote: »

Owen Hargreaves @17 milion sterling was a pretty sh1t signing.

Worth for the 07/08 season, absolutely worth.

niallo27 · 13-07-2015 07:11PM

Some of the tweets are just harmless. Why were they included with the really nasty ones.

eagle eye · 13-07-2015 07:16PM

Just on the 'he is as likely to be the next Theo Walcott' comments. I think Walcott was a much better prospect at 20 than Sterling is.

jonnny68 · 13-07-2015 07:19PM

United sign a world class world cup winning midfielder for a fraction of the price City pay for a jumped up prima donna.

Enough said!!!

CSF · 13-07-2015 07:20PM

jonnny68 wrote: »

United sign a world class world cup winning midfielder for a fraction of the price City pay for a jumped up prima donna.

Enough said!!!

Congrats on being that guy.

niallo27 · 13-07-2015 07:24PM

jonnny68 wrote: »

United sign a world class world cup winning midfielder for a fraction of the price City pay for a jumped up prima donna.

Enough said!!!

Bit of an age difference though in fairness.

13-07-2015 07:35PM

City can afford it. It's just bitter lemons to scoff at them because they spent big tbh. Off with them. With the FFP not as strict they can spend more freely.

Utd paid almost £60m for a player who Sterling out-performed last season.

13-07-2015 07:38PM

CSF wrote: »

That's not a Liverpool thing though. Those idiots are everywhere on the internet unfortunately.

I know, would take two mins to find any fanbase writing similar sick stuff. Even chanting it. But hey, we all know the crack.

Cookiemunster · 13-07-2015 07:51PM

rarnes1 wrote: »

City can afford it. It's just bitter lemons to scoff at them because they spent big tbh. Off with them. With the FFP not as strict they can spend more freely.

Utd paid almost £60m for a player who Sterling out-performed last season.

ADM 2014/15 27 apps 1645 mins 3 goals 10 assists
Sterling 2014/15 34 apps 3053 mins 7 goals 7 assists

Yeah Sterling really out performed Di Maria last season :rolleyes:

13-07-2015 08:10PM

Cookiemunster wrote: »

ADM 2014/15 27 apps 1645 mins 3 goals 10 assists
Sterling 2014/15 34 apps 3053 mins 7 goals 7 assists

Yeah Sterling really out performed Di Maria last season :rolleyes:

He did though

Even if it was slight.

You'd expect different as one is overrated, playing for a poor team, Suarez carried him through his best season, while the other is world class, one of the best around.

It's easy to sneer at City but what club doesn't get it wrong with transfers.

blueser · 13-07-2015 08:22PM

The OP doesn't seem to be limiting this to inter-PL transfers. That being the case; Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, I give you.....David Luiz. £50m for a defender who can't defend. Absolutely laughable. In that WC semi final against the Germans, he was like a rabbit in the headlights. If that is the benchmark, then Sterling is a bargain. And, as already nominated on here, Andy Carroll. £35m for him? As Quint said in Jaws; "Jesus H Christ".

13-07-2015 08:24PM

blueser wrote: »

The OP doesn't seem to be limiting this to inter-PL transfers. That being the case; Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, I give you.....David Luiz. £50m for a defender who can't defend. Absolutely laughable. In that WC semi final against the Germans, he was like a rabbit in the headlights. If that is the benchmark, then Sterling is a bargain. And, as already nominated on here, Andy Carroll. £35m for him? As Quint said in Jaws; "Jesus H Christ".

I'm convinced there was something fishy about that Luiz transfer!

niallo27 · 13-07-2015 08:24PM

Soldado was pretty much a waste of money.

13-07-2015 08:25PM

Aquilani was Liverpool's most expensive mess I'd say

niallo27 · 13-07-2015 08:32PM

rarnes1 wrote: »

Aquilani was Liverpool's most expensive mess I'd say

It was but my god did we hear about it so much. You would think no manager ever made a mistake before.

13-07-2015 08:36PM

niallo27 wrote: »

It was but my god did we hear about it so much. You would think no manager ever made a mistake before.

Probably because it dragged on for 4 years!

13-07-2015 09:39PM

No thread about worst transfers is valid without mentioning Steve Daley, Wolves to Man City for an eye watering 1.4 mill in 1979, the then record.

Gbear · 13-07-2015 09:48PM

rarnes1 wrote: »

He did though Even if it was slight.

You'd expect different as one is overrated, playing for a poor team, Suarez carried him through his best season, while the other is world class, one of the best around.

It's easy to sneer at City but what club doesn't get it wrong with transfers.

Well, clearly they do. (Edit: whoops... misread your post - thought you said they don't get it wrong with transfers...)

They've an awful squad for the money they've paid. A lot of ludicrously overpriced players that aren't too bad on their own, but taken as a whole, really haven't left City in a great position.

They're lucky that FFP is a joke. They would've had a very tough time basically building a whole new squad with it in place.

£50m isn't the market rate for Sterling, but you don't pay the market rate for a player whose club doesn't want to sell them.

Sterling is, approximately, the best player in the world for his age.
Maybe it's because of the likes of Messi and Neymar that people think he's overrated, but very few players show the stats that Sterling does at that age.

And despite having come across as a twat (or at least a person who's happy to let his agent make him look like a twat), his heady is very much screwed on on the pitch.
He's a great worker, is quite tactically mature for his age, is quite versatile and obviously has loads of raw talent.

His weak foot is farcically bad and he can generally **** the bed in front of goal a bit - very much a winger at this point, rather than a genuine forward - but he's plenty of time to iron that out.

Aenaes · 13-07-2015 09:59PM

jonnny68 wrote: »

United sign a world class world cup winning midfielder for a fraction of the price City pay for a jumped up prima donna.

Enough said!!!

Yeah, stupid City. Why didn't they go out and buy an English world class world cup winning midfielder?

Bloody hell..

klose · 13-07-2015 10:29PM

niallo27 wrote: »

Soldado was pretty much a waste of money.

Still amazed how badly he adapted to the premier league, thought he was a cert to do well in england.

PhlegmyMoses · 13-07-2015 11:54PM

I'd kind of understand people's argument about Sterling being overpriced if it wasn't City buying him but Spurs or Southampton etc. 30m would be acceptable to most, but 30m or 50m, who gives a ****? Their owners are worth trillions. Overpaying by 20m is chump change. If he flops, buy another. If he lives up to his potential, buy a second one.

Winston Payne · 13-07-2015 11:54PM

Deleted User wrote: »

No thread about worst transfers is valid without mentioning Steve Daley, Wolves to Man City for an eye watering 1.4 mill in 1979, the then record.

Garry Birtles is always a signing my dad looks back and shudders at. Manchester United bought him from Nottingham Forest for £1.25M in the autumn of 1980. Didn't score a goal in his first season, was sent back to forest in '82. The pressure got to him pretty quickly and he patently didn't work out.

thebaz · 14-07-2015 12:09AM

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

I who gives a ****? Their owners are worth trillions. Overpaying by 20m is chump change.

and ther was me thinking it was the game of the people - 20m does matter , and if it doesn't - my dwindling interest in the top end of professional football will fade even further

PhlegmyMoses · 14-07-2015 12:20AM

thebaz wrote: »

and ther was me thinking it was the game of the people - 20m does matter , and if it doesn't - my dwindling interest in the top end of professional football will fade even further

That's just naive. 20m means less to the City owners than 20 euro does to me and you. Sheikh Mansour alone is worth about 40bn and his family including all their assets etc run into the trillions. Money at that level is almost impossible to really fathom.

Worst Sterling transfer ever

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