You should probably check Salah's thread then and look for the same comments. Maybe people don't like him either because he is an Egyptian?
Even last season people were still comparing him to Lennon, Walcott and Wright-Phillips, far inferior players with a lot less to their games than Sterling.
Insulting?
Probably not as insulting as it is for him. If he was white the general perception of him would be completely different. Hazard, De Bruyne, van Dijk, Kane, Eriksen, just some examples of world class players who are great both in the PL and for their national teams. He needs to score more for England before he can be considered the best English player.
The season before he was hitting numbers similar to those and they are all small quick English wingers at the end of the day.
Pretty much. If not 'the best', certainly one of the most effective and on-form players around.
Yeah sure one of the best players in the league, would put him in top 5.
Easily, thing is, he will never get the recognition that he deserves, for some strange reason.
Yeah, one of the reason is pundits and few journalists are bitter cnuts that he left their beloved Liverpool.
I think the main reason is simply that he’s only one great season. All this conspiracy stuff about him being underrated for being black (yeah the media hates Kante!) or ex-Liverpool is just nonsense, imo.
Interestingly the last 3 winners of PL player of the year have been from the African continent.
I always thought Caf rated Sterling very highly and he wasn't getting enough attention from the media.
He was great in his debut season too and also one good season didn't stop few Liverpool players to be hailed as best in the league and among the best in the world.
Plenty on the CAF rate him as a 'Pedro' type i.e. an average player only shining in a system tailored to his attributes.
He got tons of praise after his debut season though. I remember him being bugged up as one of the worlds biggest young talents.
I do wonder how he would function outside of that incredible City side. I think he’s clearly superior to Pedro, but also I do think the system is getting the absolute best out of him. His international performances don’t do much to dissuade me from that view.
Well you just proved my point.
Bernardo Silva and De Gea are underwhelming at international level though. Fabio Capello says the international shirt has a different weight and affects some excellent players.
But he’s getting tons of praise now as well. Like I said, before the WC there were loads of articles marking him out as England’s key man, ahead of a world class striker in Kane.
Very true, it definitely doesn’t necessarily mean anything. Kane isn’t exactly a monster for England either.
He is getting now after years of nonsense articles written about him. No one said he is not getting any praise from media, it's just how so much shit was thrown at him once he left Liverpool. It was very obvious.
True, but I feel like that would have been the same for most players.
Kante was born in Paris and the last time I checked, that is in France.
Well at that point City were on rise and were levels above Liverpool. Any ambitious player would have moved to City from Liverpool. Did Stones, Walker also get same shit for moving to City from Everton? Well one moved just a year later and other moved from a team that finished above City.
That’s a good point .. but again I do think it’s just that Liverpool are still seen as a big club by the media. I think you would see similar if Rashford tried to move to PSG or something, he’d be automatically branded a mercenary despite them being a better team than you right now.
Lets agree to disagree then. It's enough defending City player for this week.
Your's is a lazy comment then because Mahrez was also born in France.
I don’t necessarily fully disagree .. Liverpool certainly have a huge presence in the media, with tons of their ex players, managers etc doing punditry.
I didn’t realise Mahrez won it only 3 years ago, I thought it was 4, my bad.
Not much different to most of the Caf so.
