19 Aug 2024 09:26:42
Raheem Sterling is someone who seems to polarise opinion as a player and a person, I feel the statement yesterday was a big error of judgment and the fact that they felt the need to point out he has 3 years remaining on his contract is a threat, my guess is the owners and manager will be furious.
For what it's worth I think his signing has been a mistake for him and us.
Does anyone feel he still has a future at Chelsea after yesterday?
19 Aug 2024 10:33:42
swcfc, I’m still a little confused as to who published the statement. There seems to be a newspaper involved and it was there decision to publish it about an hour before KO.
I would prefer it if all these type of conversations were done privately.
19 Aug 2024 11:10:59
TomB, the reality is Raheem and his team would have rubber stamped this statement and the timing of it’s release, you can’t blame a newspaper for this.
19 Aug 2024 11:38:54
Swcfc, I may well have got the wrong end of the stick on this issue but as I understand it the Sterling statement was in response to a Daily Mail article from earlier in the week and the newspaper decided to make it public one hour before kick off.
As I say I would prefer all these things didn’t end up in the public domain. I would also add that I’m not sure reminding people about the duration of his contract has got to do with anything.
19 Aug 2024 12:03:34
Tom, again I might have this wrong but my belief was he was told on Friday that he wasn’t in the squad and the statement was send after this.
19 Aug 2024 12:50:05
swcfc, we may well both be wrong.
It’s not clever whatever the circumstances but I think the statement/ comment from Sterling was made pre Friday and in response to a Daily Mail story.
I’m definitely not trying to make an excuse for the player or his advisors.
19 Aug 2024 14:16:01
Tom,
Did his advisers have to say anything to the press, has nobody learnt from the Lukaku fiasco?
19 Aug 2024 17:33:16
Bill, I’m not sure if you are aware but Sterling and the Daily Mail have a not very nice history.
19 Aug 2024 18:42:25
Think as a person he seems fine as a player we purchased him when his star was on the wane, I see no future for him mainly because Felix is coming, we have too many attacking/ wide players
Noni, Palmer, Neto, Mudryk, Felix, Jackson Nkunku there is no room for Sterling.
19 Aug 2024 19:50:05
There is no room for Felix if we are honest.
19 Aug 2024 20:38:38
Bill absolutely, where does Felix fit in? Clubs are running rings around us, Napoli now want loan with obligation to buy for Lukaku.
Tom, I don’t know anything about the Daily Mail article or the history with Sterling but if you make a response to a national newspaper you can’t seriously believe it won’t be published; that is the purpose of responding.
19 Aug 2024 21:14:39
Jimbo, the vast majority of criticism that I’ve seen was about Sterling was him supposedly putting this statement out an hour ish before the game.
Was he and his advisors stupid? Probably but if the reported sequence is true then that part of the criticism maybe isn’t justified.
I repeat, I’m not trying to defend him and his advisors. In my opinion the wording of his statement was regrettable.
19 Aug 2024 21:25:58
Would total agree that there is no room for Felix but he is coming so one or two will have to leave.