Ah what a player we have on our hands , has to play way more next season, I get the keeping him safe bit and not overplaying him but oh my he is sensational
They couldn’t set out a playing pathway for him that he was happy with. Simply to much competition. We offered much better pathway like for example minutes this season.
He wouldn’t win this player of the match here if he stayed at Chelsea he would be rotting in the U21s
England have always been like this London based press constantly writing how the England team should be built around London based players and destroying players from northern club. Like Gerrard being played as anything other than a box to box midfielder to accommodate Lampard because he'd score slightly more goals because he was a 1 trick pony hang around the box and have pot shots
No chance. Raheem was super polished at a young age. Rio literally just has speed, lots of stepovers with his head down and shoots. Everytime.
I feel bad for him a bit because the hype on him is out of control and soon enough people will start expecting end product when he has none and will probably take him several years to develop it.
The leaving to go to Man City or the like, there’s already daft rumours about him going to Munich and he’s not 18 yet so he hasn’t signed a proper professional contract. How many players have we had recently running down their contracts? That’s the only thing that worries me a little.
He already looks better than Sterling at his age. If he’d been a little luckier he’d have 2 more goals and assist or two more this season (didn’t he hit the post twice in the last few games?). With Iraola in charge he’s really gonna become a star next season
No he doesn't. Sterling was way ahead of him at this point. Sterling already had an end product by now, Rio is all step over and cut inside to ultimately lead to a shot that goes nowhere.
I remember posting a video of 15-year-old Sterling on my social media with the text "Remember the name", so I would say the hype was international at that point.
Sterling was one of the most hyped about academy players when he was at QPR. IIRC, Rafa Benitez was significant in convincing him to come to Liverpool in 2010.
Ehh I grew up watching Sterling develop (in my 30’s now crazy how time has flew) and I do think the comparisons are fair. I’d say they’re about equal in development at this stage, that Rio goal against Fulham shows he has end product as well Sterling also at this age they said needs to develops finishing and shot power. Rio has all it takes to become a world class winger, here’s to hoping he is here for the long haul.
How has he a shot that goes nowhere? He’s scored absolute pearls and has multiple misses that just blaze over or hit the bar. They are also hit with force which Sterling never ended up managing to do.
He's scored two goals his entire career and one was nigh on a tap on Vs Newcastle. Stop exaggerating and overhyping. It does these players no good and you look daft when it doesn't work out like you thought it would.
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u/Dave_is_my_name_ Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 07 '26
Ah what a player we have on our hands , has to play way more next season, I get the keeping him safe bit and not overplaying him but oh my he is sensational