[Football] Raheem Sterling

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BensGrandad

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By far and away the best player in Europe imho.
Please feel free to disagree though...

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I would put him 4th in Europe behind Ronaldo, Messi and MBappe and just ahead of Hazard who is having a tough time at Real Madrid. It must be said that in 12 months he could overtake Ronaldo and Messi who are getting older and less effective.

I am not certain that he is the best in The Premier.

 

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• Nov 12, 2019

• #62

BensGrandad said:

I would put him 4th in Europe behind Ronaldo, Messi and MBappe and just ahead of Hazard who is having a tough time at Real Madrid. It must be said that in 12 months he could overtake Ronaldo and Messi who are getting older and less effective.

I am not certain that he is the best in The Premier.

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You put him below three players in Europe and above another player in Europe but you don't think he's the best in the Prem? If you think someone in the Prem is better then he can't be 4th!

 

Ninja Elephant

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He's half the player that Kevin De Bruyne is. Technically, he's not even close to Bernardo Silva either. Any talk of him being the best in the Premier League is baffling when he's not even the best player at Manchester City.

 

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BensGrandad

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I did say I wasnt certain so raised my doubts. Is he better than Salah and Willian who play in the same positions? Difficult to judge against players in other positions.

 

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Luke93

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• Nov 12, 2019

• #65

BensGrandad said:

I did say I wasnt certain so raised my doubts. Is he better than Salah and Willian who play in the same positions?

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Salah doesn’t play in the same position as Sterling.

Sterling is miles ahead of Willian. It’s not even close.

 

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BensGrandad

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Luke93 said:

Salah doesn’t play in the same position as Sterling.

Sterling is miles ahead of Willian. It’s not even close.

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Both Salah and Sterling are strikers and I rate Willian very highly, just my opinion.

 

Murray 17

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• Nov 12, 2019

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piersa said:

Lightning quick over the first ten yards and reads a game incredibly well. Often let down by his touch though. As for comparing him to Messi and Ronaldo? Please don't, he isn't anywhere close to them. There are people in his own team who are better.

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This.

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Chrisbettyrice

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You're making the assumption that the best players in Europe are all playing in the Premier league, which you watch. Do you follow Serie A, Bundesliga and La Liga? I'm assuming you must do, otherwise your judgement is worthless.

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Eeyore

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Ninja Elephant said:

No, there's no suggestion Harry Kane is being dropped. Neither is Rashford.

Sterling is only as good as the players creating chances in the six yard box for him.

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Watching as much Champions League football as I do, I can tell you that he would be in my current best European XI. Sterling has become an awesome player.

 

Ninja Elephant

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Brighton Lines said:

Watching as much Champions League football as I do, I can tell you that he would be in my current best European XI. Sterling has become an awesome player.

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What would be your European XI?

 

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dejavuatbtn said:

Even 2 bit centre backs deserve some respect from a fellow professional - maybe Sterling thinks he’s above all that.

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possibly but we don't know the full facts.

if he had picked Dunk it wouldn't have happened...

 

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Herr Tubthumper

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• Nov 12, 2019

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Easy 10 said:

Fair play for Southgates honesty, but I'm quite surprised that all this was made public - surely it would have been simpler to have said he'd picked up a niggle in training or something, you don't usually hear about bust-ups like this, certainly not in the run-up to a game. Now every time Sterling and Gomez are in the squad, or facing each other in a game, there'll be a media circus surrounding it.

Sounds like Sterling has released a bit of his inner Pep. Can't do his players much good, seeing their manager completely losing his shit on the touchline. The pressure is clearly getting to them.

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Not surprised one bit by going public. 1) It would have leaked, or caused unnecessary attention and conjecture. 2) The FA now own the story; simple and classic PR move.

 

Hugo Rune

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Wardy's twin said:

if he had picked Dunk it wouldn't have happened...

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You reap what you sow Gareth.

The selection of centre backs has been woeful. Only ‘top six’ or Gareth’s Ex-clubs allowed!

Instead of picking one of the form English centre backs, he has picked Gomez who has bags of potential but is not playing regular football. Mings who is faster than Dunk but that’s about it. Tomori who has bags of potential but is making a few mistakes because he is so young and the out of form Stones who is waiting for another massive game to unleash yet another match losing mistake that will see England knocked out of a quarter or semi.

I do agree with the Maguire selection and the dropping of Keane after Everton kicked him out the team but Gareth need only look in the mirror to see where the error lies.

 

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dangull

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If England hadn't already virtually qualified and the opposition for the next game was a decent side, then this probably would have handled differently.

 

Justice

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• Nov 13, 2019

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dangull said:

If England hadn't already virtually qualified and the opposition for the next game was a decent side, then this probably would have handled differently.

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Yep, all this back slapping Southgate is bollocks, if England needed to win Sterling would be first name on the team sheet.

 

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stingray

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Easy 10 said:

Not much to dislike IMO.

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Quite. He was on the rough end of several incidents on Sunday, push by Gomez into ad boards, some iffy ref decisions. Was also City's best player by some distance. He reacted.

As Rio Ferdinand said he's seen broken noses, head kicking, broken ribs happen between team mates. Sounds like this was nothing and Sterling has been publicly shamed by his manager.

 

Bry Nylon

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stingray said:

As Rio Ferdinand said he's seen broken noses, head kicking, broken ribs

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And that's just one of Fergie's halftime team talks.

 

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SeagullDubai

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Anyone who tattoos a machine gun on their keg to remind them not to touch guns gets my vote

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crodonilson

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• Jul 3, 2020

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Lovely story Henry Winter tweeted last night. Sterling walked 70 (seventy) yards after his post match interview at one end of the pitch to go and embrace and congratulate Jordan Henderson.