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This is a player Guardiola seriously rates, ahead of Sane, that everyone is crazy about. He scored 18 goals got 11 assists in the PL last season.. He is 23. He was widely considered one of Liverpools best players when still a teenager, he became the most expensive English player ever and has kept on improving.Actually it amazes me that anyone who watches football thinks Sterling is one of our best players. I guess we'll have to disagree on that. I hope I'll be proved wrong.
If he is good enough to start for Man City he is good enough to start for England. If he is good enough for Pep he is good enough for Gareth.
The fact is I think some people have decided he is not very good, and decided a long time ago, probably roughly the same time he left Liverpool and got the media behind his back. For him to change peoples mind they expect him to be playing exceptionally well every game.
Today he was good, maybe only Dele was better, but he wasn't exceptional so people will keep finding reasons to criticise his performance instead of seeing what was good about it as well.
Sterling does have end product, and has got respectable stats every season from 2013 onwards he just not clinical, they are different things. The base line is he creates a lot of chances for others, and scores a few as well, thats end product.
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