17 Mar 2012

Coach raves: Liverpool FC starlet is a 'magnficent natural talent'...

Rumours are rife this week that Tottenham Hotspur are planning a summer bid for Liverpool youth player Raheem Sterling. Anfield legend Ian Rush is a fan of Sterling, and recently described him as 'very similar to Michael Owen', and I'm sure Liverpool fans would be very unhappy if Sterling was allowed to leave.

Liverpool paid QPR £500,000 for the youngster in in 2010, but despite being named in a Europa League squad last season, Sterling hasn't yet come close to getting a chance in the first team.

QPR coach Marc Bircham still has regrets over losing Sterling to Liverpool, and he's full of praise for the attacking-midfielder's ability. He told TalkSport:

"Raheem Sterling is a magnificent natural talent. He was playing in out under-18s when he was fourteen. That's how good he is.

"The change of pace and acceleration is up there with the best. He's a very clever player, and the thing with Raheem is there always seems to be an end product".


Jamie Redknapp is also a fan of Sterling. The former Reds midfielder was at White Hart Lane last month to watch Liverpool in the NextGen competition, and prior to the game, he spoke to LFC TV about Sterling's potential:

"I've heard a lot about him, and the development he's had has been staggering. Hopefully he won't be too far away from getting into the Liverpool first team".

The rumours about Sterling leaving are probably opportunist press scaremongering

Jaimie Kanwar


36 comments:

  1. Sorry to say but he's still a long way off from any first team action, he needs to learn to shoot first too!

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  2. I think KK should introduce Raheem Stirling for 15 mins at the end when the result of a game is more or less determined.Stirling has the pace and skill to worry any defence.

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  3. Isn't this always the way with Liverpool? They get in great kids and then let them wither in the academy with no prospect of advancement to the first team.

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  4. He needs at least another year with the res, but when he is ready he will be a natural first team choice, week after week

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  5. LFC>>>>>>>>>>>>> man who11:22 am, March 17, 2012

     yes he needs to improve his shooting and he also needs to also work on his off the ball work and runs behind the defense 

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  6. Raheem is still a diamond in the rough... Unfortunately he can yet make it to the first team...Give him some games? So far the team is so poor that we cannot afford some minutes... 

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  7. Kk needs to bugger off for things to work out

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  8. No Chance!!!!!!..................he's going nowhere!!!!

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  9. KK needs to buy top players like  eden hazard cavani, javi martinez and iker muniain if liverpool are to be among the best clubs in europe. but i guess KK is too stupid to think about that!! he is destroying the club!

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  10. the problem is fans at the moment want instant success. fans want eden hazard and other world stars. if we do get them,then when will he play?? imagine dropping hazard for stirling and loosing, kk's head will be for the chop. at the moment, some fans will not wait for talent and a team to mature and gel. henderson has been awful and people are calling for him to be sold. to be honest i was also frustrated but i remember the same happend with lucas. at present, most fans would say that lucas has matured into a great player and has been missed all season. if we want our young players to come into the first team we have to be patient and expect sometimes it will take them a season or two making mistakes to become class players.

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  11. Sign him up for 5 YEARS NOW or Harry R will be laughung at us for the next decade - CAN YOU NOT SEE HE IS SPECIAL

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  12. And PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Sign those fantastic Ajax kids and Sporting Lisbon kida - Wow what talent - did you see the spanish kids tear Man U to shreds - they were totally different class

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  13. Chi Bai lu, dont let him go!

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  14. Yeah, you mean like Spearing? or Shelvey, or Kelly? or Flanagan? 
    Stirling is just 17 and a little on the light weight side for full first team action, he'll get there and there is no need to risk him before he is ready

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  15. You clueless muppet, people who are calling for KK to go seem to forget that we would have to replace him and never seem to have a good replacement suggested

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  16. eden hazard must come to liverpool to add quality  to the team.henderson must be loaned..carragher is too shit to play...downing must be sold..he is like a parasite in the team!!

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  17. same crap we have been hearing about academy products for years and they never produce... 

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  18. Dalglish loves the British crap... which is why we suck right now.. 

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  19. Stick to Premier Manager pal.

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  20. Why should he hang around at Liverpool if the likes of Spurs offer him the prospect of first team football ? Look at Wenger and the opportunities he gives to youngsters, even Old Red Nose will give them a chance.The two best teams in Europe, Barca and Real excel at giving younger players playing time with the first squad.

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  21. You complete plank. The team was ruined before Kenny returned. Tom and Jerry made sure of that.

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  22. The British crap you talk of won't piss off if we don't make the champions league one season, like Masher and Torres.

    It's the first season, where 7 New players have joined. Give them some time ffs! Some of you lot were still in nappies when people like torben picnic was running about in a red shirt. I know the spelling is wrong, but who cares?

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  23. 24 years. Not really wanting instant success is it.

    Stirling is better than Downing and Henderson now. Get him in.

    G

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  24. i guess KK and comolli are here to eat the club's money....!no quality in the team.....disgusting!!

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  25. Unfortunately, we can't introduce these kids like we used to. They are impatient and can see that Wenger has given equivalent aged kids a shot at the big-time. 

    They can't see the link between a burnt out Owen and Torres and the heavy burden of games early on in their career. They are kids and so when their agents whisper in their ears that Spurs will give them a game, they can't see that this advice comes with a conflict of interest and a big fat pay cheque for them.That's why Kenny must give a taster, where possible, to our best two kids (sterling and suso) before the end of the season and preferably do so whilst offering contract negotiations, like old whisky-breath does. Give suarez a rest when two-nil up with ten minutes to go, so they will be far up the pitch and can't do too much harm. 

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  26. can remember owen and fowler coming on to the scene, and they got there chance to shine, he needs his. nothing to lose

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  27. Yes. I can see spurs dropping Bale to play him or if he ends up being a forward he'll drop VDV, Ade, Saha to play him. Realistically he has more chance at Liverpool than the other teams as Liverpool are desperat for a pacey winger. And there are more Liverpool youngsters getting a game these days than arsenal. How many arsenal youngsters would you say have come through the youth set up and made it? Do they get a game at arsenal?

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  28. Do all you lot really believe that Liverpool will sign the likes of Cavani, Lavezzi and Hazard this summer? 

    That will never happen, We'll get 6th place if we are lucky!

    I bet your all the same people who actually thought that 4th place and Champions League was on the cards at the start of the Season... LOL

    Your all mad! We'll have another summer of signing players like Adam and Downing.

    Struggle in the league again next year and in all honesty I doubt we'll see 4th spot again until we move away from Anfield... Which is going to be 3 / 4 years away, By then United will have 22 League Title's.

    This is a LONG TERM project and will not be fixed in 18 - 24 months let alone the 12 months like half of you fickle LFC supporters think...

    Cavani.. Yeah right more like a Jermaine Defoe LOL

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  29. Sterling has proved he is good for his age group, possibly great, both for Liverpool and for England. The club needs to sign him up on a long contract and get him on the bench to come on for a few minutes in the games outside the cup matches between now and the end of the season. If only to show to him that he needs more work. If he fufills his potential, that small indulgence will be worth it. We have a reasonable run in up to the end of the season, hopefully we will be able to get in good positions where he can get a run out and it won't adversely affect the result.

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  30. lol because we're benefitting so much from the shooting, off the ball work and runs behind the defense from the likes of Kuyt, Henderson & Downing right??

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  31.  , you might not have noticed but Spearing is already 23 and has been sitting around in our reserves for yeeeears. Most talented young players won't want to sit around wasting their careers like that.


    Shelvey was performing a starring role for one of the better teams in the Championship, before being pulled back to sit on our bench.

    I don't know what Flanagan has done to be promoted from the reserves ahead of the legitimate talent in that team, and we've seen it soooo many times that little players can thrive in the Premiership, contrary to the oft stated myth.

    I wouldn't blame Sterling if he did want out tbh...

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  32. That's probably the same thing you would've said about Welbeck and Hernandez trying to get games in a team featuring Rooney, Berbatov, Giggs, Nani, Valencia etc right?

    There's always an opportunity to get young talent on the pitch. Liverpool just neglect to use it.

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  33. No he doesn't. 

    All the evidence that we've seen in recent years is that players stagnate and then regress after a couple of years in the reserves, before typically being shipped out to never be heard of again

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  34. The time to take risks is now, while the team is in such a poor state. What do we really have to lose???

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  35. You obviously aren't paying any attention then  
    Most of them are calling for the return of Benitez. 

    I stick with the idea that we should be targetting the man who should've replaced Benitez in the first place - the man who revitalized Barcelona (and never gets any credit for it); Frank Riijkaard

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