It's been in several reports. Must have come from the agent.
Sterling to Tell Rodgers he wants to leave this summer
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It's been in several reports. Must have come from the agent.
You'd expect it to be a player past his prime who hasn't had a particularly satisfying time at the club, with a relatively poor attitude.
Glen Johnson.
Glen Johnson.
As I say, I only suggested it due to the fact torres said Gerrard advised him to go for his career
I imagine most of our players would say it. I would advise him to do the same too. He's much better off playing for another club, more money, more likely to win trophies, why would he stay?
Bit of a contradiction there. You are saying that we should be wary of pandering to Sterling as he is yet to reach his potential and then advocate buying Kane!
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I know mate. I just saw Gerrards comments about Sterling from last week about staying etc.
It certainly reads as if it's been fed by his agent, and I have my doubts that anyone who isn't leaving the club is advising Sterling to go, but I also don't doubt that if he wants to leave it's because he wants to leave, rather than his agent wants him to leave. This is the same guy whose 'advisors' fed stories to the press before he'd even made his debut that he didn't feel like he was getting the chances he deserved.
This. And the timing fits in rather well with Barretts comments about clubs preparing bids for him.
No, as I said, it's been in a few papers, so it's agent bollocks. But the club needs to stamp on that immediately.
Exactly. Owen gets massive flak because of how he and his agent acted in his final year with us, but he was a vastly more dangerous player than Sterling at the same age and he never caused any trouble at all until the very end. Sterling and his agent have been up to something since he arrived. He's had one good season and you'd think he was Messi the way he deals with the club. It should have been jumped on ages ago.
Well yeah, but now he's got a rep and a nuisance agent both outside of a Managers control.
Hold a meeting with the agent. Make it clear how the club will react to him continuing to bypass the club and plant disruptive stories in the press - they are professionals, there is a code of conduct, and the last thing an inexperienced but ambitious agent needs is to be censured by a massive club. And talk to Sterling about how to work with the club rather than against it whenever he has any concerns. That should have happened at least three years or more ago. Clubs can't always stop these things developing, but they CAN impress very firmly into the minds of players and agents just what the risks are that they're running.
Clubs generally are very poor at educating young players about what agents are and aren't needed for. The reality is that most of them get grabbed by agents at a very early age and are then managed by them so that they come to think of their agent as a kind of super-parent who does much more for them than the club ever does. The agent - if he's really eager to 'bed in' as the great big brother/father figure, will sort out a house for them, pay their bills, arrange their grocery deliveries, book them air tickets, deal with driving fines, stop embarrassing news stories, and advise them on everything from women to cars. They'll do everything except criticise them - they leave that to the manager, who'll thus seem like less of a supporter than the agent. Whereas the club used to, and still could, do loads of things for them - housing, financial advice, etc etc. it's now increasingly taken over by the agent. By letting 15, 16, 17 year olds to be dominated by these hugely ambitious agents, who see a lucrative long term relationship in the making, the clubs unnecessarily cede all the initiative to them. It's going to get worse and worse.
If these simple steps haven't been deployed earlier I'd be surprised. If the club management haven't managed a talented player in this way then I'd be inclined to censure them before going on to deal with these matters, even this late in the day.
Yup. If we sell him then Southampton, Crystal Palace will be licking their lips in anticipation of who will win the lottery this summer if we get the 50 million for Sterling.
I imagine they've tried that Macca. The agent seems to have little capacity for ethical or moral ways of doing things. Sterling, for his part, seems all too willing to perceive himself as persecuted and oh so worthy.
Compare with Ibe (no agent, his parents act on his behalf) and Coutinho of late. He's an immature, self-absorbed young man, without the grounding it seems to hold in mind the wider picture. It'll end badly for him.
Compare with Ibe (no agent, his parents act on his behalf) and Coutinho of late. He's an immature, self-absorbed young man, without the grounding it seems to hold in mind the wider picture. It'll end badly for him.
Pogba and Rossi left because they wanted more playing time. Pogba specifically pointed out how he was desperate for more playing time, there was a lot of injuries and Ferguson played Rafael in midfield and that was the time he decided to leave.
Pique - maybe similar to Sterling. I dont know the circumstances.
But United never had this "star player" wants to leave every 2 years which we have.
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