Saturday, April 4, 2015

Raheem Sterling flickers on fringes as Arsenal expose contract farrago

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The Liverpool forward is a work in progress, whatever he may believe, and he was outgunned by Arsenal’s proven heavyweights Mesut Özil and Alexis Sánchez

• Match report: Arsenal 4-1 Liverpool

To be fair to Raheem Sterling he did get one thing right this week. The build-up to this match had been dominated by that self-promotional video, during which Sterling declared himself “flattered” by talk of a £50m move to Arsenal. On this evidence he’s got a pretty good point too.


Football has a grand inglorious tradition of ill-advised pre-match pronouncements. Quite where Raheem Sterling: Knowing Me Knowing You (special feature: Raheem’s Big Pocket) stands in the pantheon of self-defeating self-aggrandisements remains to be seen. Perhaps in the ongoing power play over contracts and transfers it will eventually be judged a triumph. But on a cold, dull April afternoon at the Emirates the ballad of Raheem Sterling took a chastening even slightly poignant turn.


Related: Arsenal 4-1 Liverpool | Premier League match report


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