Did Everton fans hate on Rooney whenever they played United?
Unfortunately for Sterling he was badly advised teenager when he hammered his way out of the club. He should never have used that BBC interview they way he did as a vehicle to leave the club. It worked, but now he will forever be a pantomime villan in LFC eyes. He might say if he hadn't used that brute tactic, then Liverpool might not have sold him and maybe he wouldn't have developed the way he has. I don't know about that... As bad as we were we were still a competitive top flight club that recently finished 2nd in the league, he still would have developed well enough to have earned 100k+ wages soon enough.
As for Liverpool, people laughed at Manchester United when they paid a large weekly wage to teenager Wayne Rooney but they were ahead of the curve...
Raheem Sterling was essentially our Jordan Sancho when he was with us. Reports suggest Sancho earns upto 200k with Dortmund, whereas we undervalued Sterling at the time as he was only on 40k a week. City saw an opportunity and offered his value and got their man.
We can be upset about the way Sterling left (which was really bad) but Liverpool can only blame themselves for him leaving....even if we couldn't afford to match the 150k basic wage that City offered at the very least we should have 'played the game' and offered him more than 40k. Liverpool misjudged the situation, he was a key Liverpool player in a team that finished 2nd in the league and England international, but he wasn't Liverpool through and through like Gerrard or Trent and then 'add to that stew' a blood thirsty agent it's a recipe for leaving.
It's only now since Klopp has been in charge that it feels Liverpool have started to pay their players better value contracts for the star players, I believe in the last two/three years pretty much the entire team have had contract renewals. At the time, we were too slow with Raheem and we have to accept it.
Unfortunately for Sterling he was badly advised teenager when he hammered his way out of the club. He should never have used that BBC interview they way he did as a vehicle to leave the club. It worked, but now he will forever be a pantomime villan in LFC eyes. He might say if he hadn't used that brute tactic, then Liverpool might not have sold him and maybe he wouldn't have developed the way he has. I don't know about that... As bad as we were we were still a competitive top flight club that recently finished 2nd in the league, he still would have developed well enough to have earned 100k+ wages soon enough.
As for Liverpool, people laughed at Manchester United when they paid a large weekly wage to teenager Wayne Rooney but they were ahead of the curve...
Raheem Sterling was essentially our Jordan Sancho when he was with us. Reports suggest Sancho earns upto 200k with Dortmund, whereas we undervalued Sterling at the time as he was only on 40k a week. City saw an opportunity and offered his value and got their man.
We can be upset about the way Sterling left (which was really bad) but Liverpool can only blame themselves for him leaving....even if we couldn't afford to match the 150k basic wage that City offered at the very least we should have 'played the game' and offered him more than 40k. Liverpool misjudged the situation, he was a key Liverpool player in a team that finished 2nd in the league and England international, but he wasn't Liverpool through and through like Gerrard or Trent and then 'add to that stew' a blood thirsty agent it's a recipe for leaving.
It's only now since Klopp has been in charge that it feels Liverpool have started to pay their players better value contracts for the star players, I believe in the last two/three years pretty much the entire team have had contract renewals. At the time, we were too slow with Raheem and we have to accept it.
