There are heaps of foreign clubs he'd do well to go to, but people in this country just don't see it as a move upwards to leave Liverpool to go to some Spanish or German side who aren't those three. Same with pretty much all of Italy, France etc.
Well, if you look back I was merely saying Liverpool should aim to sell him abroad. My point is it doesn't have to be to one of the Classico giants or Bayern.
PSG/Juventus, although probably not to someone English. Sterling in Serie A would be brutal, he'd retire most of their defences.
And it's bollocks isn't it? I mean I think a lot of **** gets talked about what's wrong with the England team but I've no doubt our players would improve if they went abroad at a younger age. Not even because the coaching is better per se (though I imagine it is) but just for the whole experience.
Those 3 are pretty much the only clubs in Europe who could afford Sterling. The disparity between what's on offer in England wage wise and the continent is becoming huge.
Why would they do that when they could just sell him?
Juve could pay his first couple of years wages with their CL prize pot when they win it
Why would you sell your best player to immediate rivals?
Doesn't seem to have worked out too badly for Arsenal tbf
I'm not sure if this adds up. It's like when Spurs sold Bale to RM, but then that just freed up Ozil to go to Arsenal. That's not a perfect example, because there were no players at Bale's level that Liverpool's rivals could get instead, but I don't think that's true here. Say Sterling goes to Bayern and Arsenal sign Gotze instead. Is it really that much different?
100%. Would be really interesting to see him go to Bayer Leverkusen or Borussia Mönchengladbach, there aren't really any sides like them in England. Probably more chance of me signing for them though, and I wouldn't even be that surprised if some of their best players ended up going to Liverpool with the Sterling cash. Prem just has much more money and prestige in the eyes of everyone in England.
Doesn't seem to have worked out too badly for Arsenal tbf
I think people probably overestimate how much Wenger was forced on a lot of the high profile sales to English rivals. Certainly a lot of those transfers have failed to really benefit those clubs in the long term.Doesn't seem to have worked out too badly for Arsenal tbf
Guess Suarez to Barca and Alexis to Arsenal another example.
It's about so so much more than the money and the basic improvement of a rival though.
Prestige isn't as important as cold hard cash IMO. He's rumoured to have turned down £100k a week, aside from the 3 clubs I mentioned earlier as well as PSG and Monaco I just don't see Sterling earning that outside of England.
