LIVERPOOL MANAGER Brendan Rodgers has denied there is any rift with Raheem Sterling and has confirmed the England international is on the verge of a move to Manchester City.
City have been successful with their third offer for the winger, with a bid of £49 million (€68.3m) set to bring an end to a long-running transfer saga.
The England international had threatened to go on strike before twice calling in sick to training in a bid to force a move away from the club, with Sterling’s agent, Aidy Ward, claiming there had been a “breakdown in trust” between player and manager.
“The situation is very simple,” he told reporters at a press conference in Bangkok. “The club has agreed a deal with another club for Raheem subject to a medical that’ll go through.
“Raheem and I have always remained very strong in our relationship and that remained the case when we left. There is no issue there.”
Originally published at 11.32
The sooner this is over the better.
There is no purer truth than 133 green thumbs and no red ones.
what about 134 green thumbs and no red ones? Or dare I say it *looks around* ,.. 135 green thumbs with no redzers. One can always dream
Delighted he is gone, only a distraction lately.
Now please please please spend the money sensibly not £30m on Benteke, he is not worth that kind of money and no more from Southampton.
Benteke not worth 30m but sterling’s worth 49m ???? Great logic that
He didn’t say sterling was worth that money. Nobody would cept city it seems.
The sovereign wealth fund Abu Dhabi have earns approx £115,000 per minute. To put that in context the £49m fee plus £150,000 wages over a 5 year period would take about 13 hours to pay off. Those moaning about the fee City paid still don’t comprehend the backing behind them. It’s like your average person going into a shop and buying a packet of crisps. He may or may not work out but the risk is virtually non existent to City.
No Liverpool did , they set the fee
Sterling is nowhere worth £49m but if Man City want to pay it then gladly accept it.
In other news: Rodgers says now is the best time to invest in Greece.
Can’t Rodgers not just keep his trap shut,the club got an outrageous amount of money for him and he’s nothing to do with Liverpool anymore so Rodgers shut the fu_k up and concentrate on trying to sign a couple of world class players instead of another incarnation of Emile Heskey.
He was a question at a press conference and gave a simple answer. What do you expect?
asked*
Hopefully liverpool go after a proven goalscorer like pedro lacazette or higuain instead of benteke who wouldn’t fit their system
Hopefully today is the end of this sh*te. So bloody boring.
I bet you read that headline in Brendan Rogers voice.
Man City buying Liverpool’s best player’s. Another nail in the coffin. Shankley must be turning in his.
Except They didn’t sell Coutinho
There’s clearly been a breakdown in communications for a while so why wait till the players gone