Raheeeem
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Shite performance from him tonight.. But then so it was from everyone else..
Yep. Some first touches not working, some basic passing going stray, & misjudging timing of his runs.
He's 19 FFS, he shouldn't be playing this many games, regardless of injuries or anything else.
Nail on head! we expect too much from him
That's because he's the only player we have, that isn't injured, that can really win us games. He's basically stepped into Suarez's place, as we failed to address him leaving, and it's way too early in his career to do that.
We have to expect from him, because we can't rely on Balotelli, Markovic, Coutinho and Lambert to actually do anything at the minute.
It doesn't matter.
We're damaging him by playing him.
No player is bigger than the side, I agree, but nevertheless, no result at this stage of the season is worth damaging a young player by overplaying him & laying all our hopes on his shoulders.
If we can't win without a 19 year old player then we don't deserve the points imo.
I agree, we should be treating him better. But we're fucked until Sturridge comes back, so we either overplay Sterling until he does, or we live with having next to no attacking threat for the next few games.
Neither is a good situation, but we've put ourselves in this position by having such a crap window.
In which case we play the diamond with Lallana behind two up front rather than Raheem.
If he starts at the weekend I'll be beyond angry.
Rodgers can't paint himself as this miracle man who gets the best out of young players & then play a nineteen year old lad, (who has had attitude problems in the past) until he practically drops, with all the weight of expectation on his shoulders of England fans, now Liverpool fans, who is struggling with form in a side struggling with its form.
It's beyond wrong, it's the football equivalent of gambling your pension on risky shares cos you'd like a new car.
Rodgers can't paint himself as this miracle man who gets the best out of young players & then play a nineteen year old lad, (who has had attitude problems in the past) until he practically drops, with all the weight of expectation on his shoulders of England fans, now Liverpool fans, who is struggling with form in a side struggling with its form.
It's beyond wrong, it's the football equivalent of gambling your pension on risky shares cos you'd like a new car.
Are you Roy Hodgson in disguise?
No chance. FFF knows about computers. I bet you Roy is still using a typewriter.
Typewriter? The old git is still using stone tablets and a ******* chisel.
"A what? A typewritea? Not Woy. I'm old school. I use a pen. Not a fancy Dan one, not me, I use a biwo. Now watches, I have a fancy watch, the circumfewence is almost the size of my head. Whiteing though, now that is done with an old school biwo. Keeps leaking all over my England Blazer, Mrs Hodgson isn't weal happy about that."
Exactly what I was going to say - he rested him for the Villa game & got slated on this forum; now if he doesn't rest him for the West Brom game he will get slated on this forum ... plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose
I usually defend the manager, but in this case he brought the criticism upon himself by making a pretty sensible argument against overusing Sterling, then, after resting him backfired vs Villa, proceeding to play him in every minute of every game including 120 minutes in the cup game. I would have been OK with him rested for Basel, personally.
So we should rest him on Saturday so he will be fresh for England
Follow the Suarez path Raheem ...
Message to Raheem Sterling agent, shut up feeding stories about his contract.
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