Raheem Sterling

[blade too long]

As man city have had a 35 m bid turned down why dont we nip in and get him for 40m
we need to be spending 150 m this year before next weekend to give us a chance .
Why havent we bid on Danny Ings yet and bought Jagielks back for 30 million
Im becoming disillusioned with our lack of movement as we are 300 times bigger than any other club in this league minimum

 

[Worksop II]

As man city have had a 35 m bid turned down why dont we nip in and get him for 40m
we need to be spending 150 m this year before next weekend to give us a chance .
Why havent we bid on Danny Ings yet and bought Jagielks back for 30 million
Im becoming disillusioned with our lack of movement as we are 300 times bigger than any other club in this league minimum

Not another shortarse .................... meh

 

[itsinyerblood]

As man city have had a 35 m bid turned down why dont we nip in and get him for 40m
we need to be spending 150 m this year before next weekend to give us a chance .
Why havent we bid on Danny Ings yet and bought Jagielks back for 30 million
Im becoming disillusioned with our lack of movement as we are 300 times bigger than any other club in this league minimum

Trouble with you BTL is your conservative nature. £30 mil wouldn't get Jags' right leg.....get real mate, we need to be working towards a deadline (tomorrow night do you?) where we spend like Viv Nicholson and leave IOU's all over the place, then those posters who keep posting wondering what we're doing in the transfer market might begin to realise that experience and good judgement are not things we employ when it comes to signing a player.

 

[Cyprus Blade]

For the benefit of our younger readers and to save them trolling through football anthologies fruitlessly Viv Nicholson and her husband won the pools in 1961 - £152,319 - and vowed to spend, spend, spend. Here she is collecting the cheque - yes Brucie was going strong even in those days and he's never turned a gig down since.

 

[blade too long]

Bruce got paid more than that for every Strictly come dancing appearance , how times change

 

[Silent Blade]

For the benefit of our younger readers and to save them trolling through football anthologies fruitlessly Viv Nicholson and her husband won the pools in 1961 - £152,319 - and vowed to spend, spend, spend. Here she is collecting the cheque - yes Brucie was going strong even in those days and he's never turned a gig down since.

Viv's husband died in a car crash 4 years later. Had he not won the pools he would have been taking different paths and probably would have lived longer

 

[blade too long]

Trouble with you BTL is your conservative nature. £30 mil wouldn't get Jags' right leg.....get real mate, we need to be working towards a deadline (tomorrow night do you?) where we spend like Viv Nicholson and leave IOU's all over the place, then those posters who keep posting wondering what we're doing in the transfer market might begin to realise that experience and good judgement are not things we employ when it comes to signing a player.

just thought there was a lack of threads about us not having signed 15 players yet , while they are all on the beaches around the world , saw 2 players , from mk dons playing golf at my local club CAMPOAMOR on Thursday , its hard to sign players when they arent in the same country I was thinking

 

[itsinyerblood]

just thought there was a lack of threads about us not having signed 15 players yet , while they are all on the beaches around the world , saw 2 players , from mk dons playing golf at my local club CAMPOAMOR on Thursday , its hard to sign players when they arent in the same country I was thinking

And you were spot on mate.

Supporter anxiety can be contagious, especially in the close season. We're all addicted to the pig's bladder and anything footie related gets the blood flowing until we announce any new signings.

 

[blade too long]

I met someone in a bar about a fortnight ago who had won 6 million on the lottery , had bought a sea front property worth around 1.75 million 7 beds lift indoor outdoor pool , still was in same cafe as me having a full english though, so its possible to be sensible with money and still enjoy life .Went for drinks lovely place , bit too near a cliff edge for me. Happy with my little place though , still get to sun bathe and swim and drink Cava , or a long cool beer .Liked his soft top range rover though could do one of those .

 

[Bladesman]

As man city have had a 35 m bid turned down why dont we nip in and get him for 40m
we need to be spending 150 m this year before next weekend to give us a chance .
Why havent we bid on Danny Ings yet and bought Jagielks back for 30 million
Im becoming disillusioned with our lack of movement as we are 300 times bigger than any other club in this league minimum

We don't need Stirling, we need more foreign players.

We should really need be looking at Iker Casillas and Nicolas Otamendi.

 

[itsinyerblood]

We don't need Stirling, we need more foreign players.

We should really need be looking at Iker Casillas and Nicolas Otamendi.

I think we can afford to look at Casillas and Otamendi, just google and a picture appears....shouldn't break the budget and we can have bragging rights that we looked at both of 'em.

 

[Jehovah]

We cant attract Andy Williams and he was free.

 

[Ashtonsmashton]

While we are at it lets get Ronaldinho

 

[judge]

As man city have had a 35 m bid turned down why dont we nip in and get him for 40m
we need to be spending 150 m this year before next weekend to give us a chance .
Why havent we bid on Danny Ings yet and bought Jagielks back for 30 million
Im becoming disillusioned with our lack of movement as we are 300 times bigger than any other club in this league minimum

 

[Bert]

Roy Race, that's who we should sign.

 

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[super_pig]

don't get the hype with sterling. if it wasn't for the fact that most pundits are ex anfield noone would have heard of him
and..
he runs like a girl

 

[Russ]

This is the only R.Sterling we can afford....

A Rover Sterling.

 

[grafikhaus]

Bruce got paid more than that for every Strictly come dancing appearance , how times change

Yup. Operation Yewtree wasn't around then.

 

[Cyprus Blade]

don't get the hype with sterling.

marginally more stable currency than the Euro otherwise I agree. As for the liverpool bloke - he's not fit to push the knitting needle down the Beard's cast.

 

[ScoobBlade]

We cant attract Andy Williams and he was free.

Who said we wanted him

 

[sothall blade]

As man city have had a 35 m bid turned down why dont we nip in and get him for 40m
we need to be spending 150 m this year before next weekend to give us a chance .
Why havent we bid on Danny Ings yet and bought Jagielks back for 30 million
Im becoming disillusioned with our lack of movement as we are 300 times bigger than any other club in this league minimum

we could be waiting for the bargains from the loan market !

 

[Jehovah]

Who said we wanted him

He did

 

[Worksop II]

we could be waiting for the bargains from the loan market !

I think we are waiting for Under 21s to finish their Tournament before we swoop ..................

 

[Bladesway]

Another supposed superstar who will be plying his trade with Stoke City within 5 years.

 

[SB_90]

Must say 49m is truly ridiculous for sterling ive no complaints with the amount because it could be just if he has carried team like bale at spurs suarez or gerrard at Liverpool but for that money you would want the finished article & 1 of best players in the world. in my opinion Sterlings not in top 5/10 for England espically as he can have tendency to go missing in the big games like fa cup semi final v villa I hope for the national teams sake he doesn't end up sat on the bench & wasted like rodwell Sinclair

 

[I should coco]

Must say 49m is truly ridiculous for sterling ive no complaints with the amount because it could be just if he has carried team like bale at spurs suarez or gerrard at Liverpool but for that money you would want the finished article & 1 of best players in the world. in my opinion Sterlings not in top 5/10 for England espically as he can have tendency to go missing in the big games like fa cup semi final v villa I hope for the national teams sake he doesn't end up sat on the bench & wasted like rodwell Sinclair

Yes I don't remember Rodwell Sinclair getting even one game for Citeh. Was he the younger brother of Clive Sinclair?

Have to agree that £49m for a sulking workshy arrogant little tosser is absolutely stupid money especially as it seems that Citeh were the only ones in for him. They should have told the robbing scousers that it was £25m take it or leave it, not carried on bidding the price up. Even bloody eBay doesn't let you bid against yourself.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

To me, this should be a "Twats" thread - this is all of what's wrong with football.

A young, promising, greedy player (lies by saying that leaving LFC is not about money) + an arrogant agent who will drop him at the first sign of fading, going to the richest club in the country for £49 million because they can afford it.

This is not an "in my day" rant, but it does go to show that paying Watford £37,500 for a footballing god was by far the better deal - in the unlikely event of John Harris ever being given £50 million to spend, he'd probably have put it in a Post Office account.

 

[madeinsheffield]

can't believe we bid £40m and didn't get him

 

[itsinyerblood]

Yes I don't remember Rodwell Sinclair getting even one game for Citeh. Was he the younger brother of Clive Sinclair?

Have to agree that £49m for a sulking workshy arrogant little tosser is absolutely stupid money especially as it seems that Citeh were the only ones in for him. They should have told the robbing scousers that it was £25m take it or leave it, not carried on bidding the price up. Even bloody eBay doesn't let you bid against yourself.

Thing is ISC, Sterling has put himself about, so the CSA have probably been on his back for alimony payments. A mere £100K a week is hardly going to accommodate the needs of mums and kids young Sterling has father'd. Also, City have been allowed to loosen their purse-strings, and they can now spend their cash with gay abandon. They'll now compete for the very best, or should that be the most expensive? Either way they're about to go into financial freefall, their debts will swell until their owner decides to write off said debt, and then they'll begin all over again. What sort of wonderland is it that the rules that every other business has to adhere to are no longer valid in football?

I suffer the same crisis that most fans suffer from. I love to watch Aguero, a truly superb player that wouldn't have arrived in the UK if not for City's money. But I also understand that the levels of money that make all of this possible are also going to be the very thing that burst this footballing bubble.

But back to Sterling, it seems that a concentrated period of absorbing the many strands of propaganda has resulted in the creation of a diminutive media monster who happens to play football. I can't recall a game where Sterling constantly thrilled and excited the watching fans, yet here he is, a £49 million wunderkid who'll now have to deliver regularly to justify the nonsense that surrounded the engineered move away from Anfield. Either that or he'll be the author of increasingly new levels of excuses and blame. Of course, young Raheem couldn't possibly be held to account for not being as good as he thinks he is, it has to be someone else's fault for creating such unrealistic expectations, doesn't it?