Interview with Sterling

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

I really hope he starts and plays well tonight. It's been too long since a youngster came through the ranks, and with so much money wasted in the past 2/3 years it would be a huge relief if we had someone in the squad who could step up and give us a shining light.

[fowler9]

I really hope he starts and plays well tonight. It's been too long since a youngster came through the ranks, and with so much money wasted in the past 2/3 years it would be a huge relief if we had someone in the squad who could step up and give us a shining light.

 

Kelly? Spearing? although Raheem could become a huge player for us if he fulfills his potential, I do think Kelly will be a big player for us over the years too though

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Kelly? Spearing? although Raheem could become a huge player for us if he fulfills his potential, I do think Kelly will be a big player for us over the years too though

 

Kelly still isn't playing regularly enough to be deemed to have made it imo. And I don't rate Spearing. Obviously Kelly has more competition as a defender than Sterling will have out wide. But to have a promising youngster playing well and making the position their own is the goal.

[mht1892]

I think Sterling and Robinson will defo make it, I rate the both of them...

Robinsons performance against Arsenal under that pressure that season at the Emirites was immense, got pace to burn as well.

I hope they both feature tonight, could be a naughty left flank.

[Chip Butty]

Made up that he's gonna be the new John Barnes. He must be over the moon.

[Guest ShoePiss]

Or even the new Jan Molby' date=' his style is more like Molby's if you ask me.[/quote']

 

defo

[Geraghty]

He was brilliant today,that cross for Boroini was excellent.Could get a lot of games this year

 

There's a video on the Internet,a preview of this Liverpool documentary coming up of Rodgers giving him a bollocking in a training session for a bit of lip.Seems to have really knuckled down.

[Jhinge Machha]

He was brilliant today,that cross for Boroini was excellent.Could get a lot of games this year

 

There's a video on the Internet,a preview of this Liverpool documentary coming up of Rodgers giving him a bollocking in a training session for a bit of lip.Seems to have really knuckled down.

i posted this in the other thread too. nice to see what rodgers has to say about adam morgan too

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[aRdja]

He had a solid game.. Faded in the second half. He seems quick enough, confident and happy to take players on.. He uses the ball quite well and happy to put a shift in. I saw no reason for Rodgers to drop him for Downing next week.

[Liam]

Raheem Stirling is going to be a player. I havent seen anyone come through the ranks who can go past players with such ease since Steve McManaman... And although it is very early days I would have to say I fancy this lad to be a better player!

 

Martin Kelly should be put in at centre back in my opinion. If him and Agger werent so frail they would be the kind of ball playing defenders Rodgers would love. Obviously due to their fragile genetics, Skrtel is 1st choice until we sell him I'd imagine.

[BringbackBiscan]

I really like how Toure went in hard from behind early in the first half, obviously trying to scare him out of the game. The kid was back running at him the next time he got the ball.

 

Borini really should have buried the chance he set up for him again too. Great ball in that was.

 

The lad just needs to keep his feet grounded and he'll go far. He had the best team in the league scared today.

[Bobby Hundreds]

How's sterlings contract situation just out of curiosity is he near the end of his contract.

[longballs]

How's sterlings contract situation just out of curiosity is he near the end of his contract.

 

He signed "a long term" contract in December last year.

[RobbieOR]

That clip of Rodgers giving him a rocket up the arse is hilarious.

[dickie mint]

He had a great game today.

[Rush 346]

I used to think some of the Torygraph sport was ok until bascombe went there and started writing about us, another article from him which is much ado about nothing

 

Liverpool starlet Raheem Sterling reaps the rewards of Brendan Rodgers' on-camera dressing down - Telegraph

 

ox – who are making the TV series on the Anfield club – decided to release a sneak preview of the forthcoming fly-on-the-wall programmes in which 17-year-old Sterling receives a barracking from manager Brendan Rodgers.

The clip shows one of Rodgers’ first Liverpool training sessions, from pre-season in Boston, in which he is seen warning the youngster “he will be on the first flight home” if he does not listen to instructions.

Although it is a riveting insight into Rodgers’ management style and presents the coach in a positive, authoritative way, the timing of the preview and context of its release was harsh on Sterling on a defining day in his fledgling career, particularly as his manager has stated how the youngster’s response in training earned him a starting role.

In stark contrast to the image presented in the clip, which was filmed over a month ago, Rodgers says Sterling’s attitude and talent are as encouraging as any teenager he has worked with.

“I have seen a lot of development in him in a short time,” said Rodgers. “He takes on a lot of the concepts and he is very good with instructions. Normally wingers want to do their own thing but he is tactically improving every day. I said when I first came in, I wouldn’t judge people on their status, on what they are or what they have done, but on what I see in front of me.

 

“He is a young player who has just improved every single day since I came in here. He was a player that played on his own in the one-v-ones.

“For a 17 year-old playing against the champions, I thought his performance was fantastic. I am certain over the next few years that he will develop into a very good footballer. We just have to make sure that we keep the pressure off him.

 

“One of the things that I think I have specialised in is the management of top young players. He is certainly up in that bracket. I look at players like Scott Sinclair and boys of that ilk. He is certainly up there. Maybe more advanced at that age.

“The great thing is that his attitude is wonderful. He is really focused. He comes in and he works well. He produces and he is effective on the pitch.”

Sterling has had to bide his time to make his Anfield breakthrough. He was signed from Queens Park Rangers two years ago for an initial fee of £600,000 although this could rise to as much as £5 million depending on first-team appearances.

He was put through his paces in the Liverpool Academy and earned rave reviews for a string of outstanding performances, leading to selection by England at both under-16 and under-17 levels.

The fact he was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and grew up in Wembley has inevitably prompted comparisons with Anfield legend John Barnes and Sterling’s form during Liverpool’s pre-season tour of North America and his confident display against Manchester City have shown such expectations might not be fanciful.

He was preferred on the left wing on Sunday to the more experienced Stewart Downing, with his manager suggesting the lack of financial resources at the club prompted him to give the youngster his chance sooner than expected.

“Young players will run through a barbed wire fence for you,” said Rodgers. “Older players will look for the hole or just turn back and not even go through it. But you get that freshness from Raheem. I like exciting players as well and he is a boy that excites you.

“This might be a good opportunity for them. Because we don’t have the money that some of our rivals have, I want to make the philosophy through the club that allows us to bring players from the academy into the first team. We want to develop what this club has had for many years and develop top young players.”

Liverpool fear midfielder Lucas will be out for several weeks with a thigh strain sustained on Sunday.

[Geraghty]

Fair play to Morgan for his attitude.

 

I remember Rodolfo subbed him in a preseason friendly after 20 minutes for cheek then brought him on again later.

 

It all part of it,your gona act daft or say something at that age it's how you respond to stuff like that,Sterling could have easily sulked.